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Magnolia Blossoms

Magnolia Blossoms

...and the poison petrochemical plume. Ponderous!

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I wanted to get a photo of the magnolia tree beginning to bloom.

I walked out the front door and into a vast, thick, airborne cloud of gasoline fumes. A perturbing, pertinacious plume.

The air was all right earlier, but now it's suffused (and that isn't always reflected in the readings we get from the air quality monitors). I shouldn't have gone out in it, but I wanted that photo so much.

I came back inside quickly, rinsed my sinuses, wiped down all my exposed skin and hair and phone and changed my clothes… washed my hands and forearms. Yeargh.

I used to have to shower right away in such a circumstance, and I think I am going to manage, by slim margin, not to have to do that just at this moment. I'll get a shower before going to bed, to keep my sleeping area diligently decontaminated. I'll have to address the low-level particulate build-up in the works room though, eventually.

How do you cope with the gasoline fume plumes floating through your neighborhood, and the other airborne pois…

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