YOUR HEAD PLANTSPLODE

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Magnificent weather the last few days. Sun-soaked, golden, breezy, and I think they even got that raging fire on the other side of the valley put out, so the smoke is clearing!

And you know what that means! PLANTSPLOSION.



Alpine asters everywhere! (I think they’re alpine. Never been good with plants.) I love scrubby alpine plants. Mom says that when she moved here from California lo these many years ago, she was horrified at how bald the mountains looked. I still don’t understand. They are covered with shrubberies!



Pick your favorite PLANTSPLOSION pollinator caption:
A. COVERED IN BEES!
B. That’ll give you … er, bees.

Unfortunately, I have to love the foliage from indoors, because everyone knows that happy plants = hayfever apocalypse. It is bad, my friends. Every mucus gland is working its gooey little heart out to complement my inflamed sinuses, and my joints are having flashbacks to The Malaria. And I’m not the only one. The gnome who came to fix our stove today was having similar problems, and we had the following conversation about it:

STOVE GNOME: *wheeze* *snorf* *honk*
ME: *whiffle* *sneeze* *snuff*
STOVE GNOME: *understanding honk*

I offered him some juice, but he declined and snuffled his way out to his van. (We’ll get a fixed stove by next year, almost for sure.)

I keep trying to cowboy up, by which I mean I am breathing through bandannas to try to filter some of the crud out of the air. So far it is not working very well. I may have to make another cup of lemon tea to stick my face in.

At least there are bees out making honey for my tea. PLANTSPLOSION isn’t all bad.

Comments

[renshai.livejournal.com]

You know it's bad when you don't even necessarily want to drink the tea....just inhale the steam coming off of it.

*solidarity fist, although in my case it's the autumn leaf mold that'll get me*

[cougarfang.livejournal.com]

That'd make a great tagline for Plants vs Zombies...

[pandoras-closet.livejournal.com]

Here in California, we do not cover our hills with mere shrubberies, we cover them with goddamn trees. Yes, not trees, but goddamn trees. Huge mighty redwoods and oaks soaring towards the sky in a phallic display of why the rest of the country hates our awesomeness.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Except for the hills covered in dried-out yellow grass.

[pandoras-closet.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. But we don't talk about that.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see your trees survive a mile above sea level in arid conditions!

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

What can I say, you've been on a roll lately.

[bkwrrm-tx.livejournal.com]

Oh, you have my sympathies. Our pollen count thingy is a 9.8 out of 10 (go look at the national map - I'm smack-dab in the red zone). Add in my smokaholic roomies, and ... ugh.

I'm out of tea but I think I'll go take a nice hot steamy shower and see if I can degunk my head.

[lycheetwist.livejournal.com]

I wish I had such luck over here. The weather's been funny. I'm expecting a lot of snow in these parts.

And did you know this?! http://i.imgur.com/QezHL.jpg I'm weirded out to holy hell right now. It's just proof that he is the true Joker.