a is for allergies

I'm so glad that 'a' is the first letter of the alphabet because it lets me address the first, and rather serious, issue going on around our place at the moment.  Since it's spring here in Austin and flowers are in full bloom, the air is full of pollen.  It's like a blanket of yellow snow that gets all over the backyard, the front deck, the car, mailbox and all over Dorothy and me whenever we go outside.  

Even if mommy wasn't a neat freak who insisted on washing our feet and brushing it out of our coats constantly, it would still be a major pain because both Dorothy and I are allergic to it!  It gets up our nose and into our eyes making us sneeze and tear up.  Have you ever tried fetching a ball with your eyes full of water?  It's very disorientating! Mommy says there are only a couple of weeks left of this pollen crisis but that feels like forever to D and me.  People think it's easy being a dog but no one realizes that every season something covers the ground that we're so close to: in winter it's snow, in spring it's pollen, in summer it's bugs and in fall it's leaves! 

this is the tree responsible!

And what it does to our place

Mommy caught me pre-sneeze!

thanks to swatirane.wordpress.com for this photo which shows a trash can in Atlanta. 
The pollen was actually worse in Atlanta but we have a yard here so we're in it more.