This Yellow Stuff Is A-Pollen

It coats my screen porch.  It covers black dogs in a film of yellow, like a cross between a silent film and psychedelia.

Pine pollen.  The worst part is that it totally kills my eyes.  For two or three weeks this time of year when I ride, the pine pollen blinds me and hurts like crazy because of my contact lenses.  I alternate between excruciating pain, filmy vision, and blessed pain-free clear vision.

Electron microscope image of pine pollen or alien death start?  It's all the same to me.

Next year I'm definitely investing in prescription, athletic sunglasses.