Magnolia Blossoms
...and the poison petrochemical plume. Ponderous!
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 poisons? They're everywhere here in Pittsburgh.
Yet, today has seen success.
Here are the magnolia blossoms!
Post-note: If you are perspicacious, you may recognize the thrumming of persistent, perilous, pervasive petrochemical machinery in the background… • t.me/MaxMoRadio/6434
STUNNING!!!
My city stinks for many reasons, one of them being that it's a steel town. I am dreaming of moving to more nature every day. :)