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On 22/06/2008, at 8:07 PM, Patrick Kelly wrote:
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> I went atalssing there this morning and all of the lakes had long
> broad "spills" of bright yellow pollen. Some of these were several
> metres wide and aver 200 metres long. They looked as though someone
> had gone by in a boat and was dumping out yellow paint as they
> went. Falls Lake, and Mockingee Lake were affected. Someone I know
> was at a lake just west of there (North Canoe Lake) and it had the
> same thing.
Unless the pollen was from the legendary "lotus", it
was probably from from a local species of pine. Last week
my car was parked under a white pine for a few days and its roof became very
yellow. Kempton Lake in Kempt (near Caledonia)
had a lot of yellow pollen on it. It is surrounded by white pines.
Thoreau mentions the "sulphur showers" of late spring
at the end of the "Spring" chapter of "Walden" :
"The sulphur-like pollen of the pitch pine soon covered the pond"
...
"Even in Calidas' drama of Sacontala, we read of
'rills dyed yellow with the golden dust of the lotus' "
--
David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada
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