I love the spring…flowers, budding trees, and milder temperatures. Things look much greener and fresher.<\/p>\n
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Except, that is, if you live in the south right now.<\/p>\n
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Yes, I am reminded of the little people in Wizard of Oz who sang the song “Follow the Yellow Brick Road.”<\/p>\n
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While most of our roads aren’t brick these days, I think we can say without hesitation that they are very yellow.<\/p>\n
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Yes, pollen is with us for awhile and it reeks havoc on our system and our environment.<\/p>\n
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I came back into town the other morning and almost passed my house. The yard, house, and driveway were all covered with thick<\/strong> yellow pollen and I hardly recognized it. While that may be a bit of a stretch to you, it WAS covered with that golden haze. I could hardly believe my eyes as I slowed down.<\/p>\n \n We all know pollen makes the trees beautiful and that helps to shade us during the summer. It’s just hard to consider it a benefit when we are sneezing, our nose is runny, and we can hardly breathe.<\/p>\n \n While no doctor wants you to be sick, we know allergists make a fortune during this season trying to help ease our reactions to pollen and other airborne allergens.<\/p>\n \n I guess it’s just the price we pay in the South this time of year. Later on it will be knats giving us a fit, so the more positive we are about these little irritants of life, the better off we will be.<\/p>\n \n My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you are not physically affected by seasonal pollen and other allergens. If you are, I hope you find relief quickly so you can get out on the roads – yellow or not – and enjoy life.<\/p>\n \n ~ Joellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love the spring…flowers, budding trees, and milder temperatures. Things look much greener and fresher. Except, that is, if you live in the south right now. Yes, I am reminded of the little people in Wizard of Oz who sang the song “Follow the Yellow Brick Road.” While most of our roads aren’t brick these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,27,23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-events","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-nature-events","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}