Allergies galore

With our unusually warm weather this month, it seems that every tree, bush, and spring flower has bloomed at once. I have never seen a week where daffodils, hyacinths, crocus, tulips, forsythia, lilacs, magnolias, dogwood, crabapple and plum trees and a bunch more I don't even know have ALL been in bloom at one and the same time. Spring is better when it spreads its glorious color over the course of a few weeks at least.

Pollen visibly floats in the air, dusting every surface with the slight green fuzz that stuffs up your sinuses and catches in your throat. People are hacking and snuffling and mumbling in misery. I usually have two times a year when my allergies kick up - once in the spring when the leaves unfurl, and once in the fall when the leaves drop. So its not like this is a new experience. But this year, with everything wafting about at once, I am overwhelmed with sinus troubles, even to the point of having a headache!

This simply won't do. I have work that must be done, places to go, trips to prepare for, people to see, songs to sing. I need a reprieve. And then I remember - God has arranged for me to take a trip to Arizona! That should get me out of allergy land long enough for my poor face to return to some sort of normal. How amazing is that!

When I was a kid, Arizona was the place asthmatics moved to because of the dryness and lack of pollen. Of course, they tell me that has changed, and in essence you are changing one set of pollen for another. But I still think it will be less obnoxious than Rochester. We shall see. Sniff, sniff, cough.