Pollen fallout blankets area

It falls like a snow, persistent and unforgiving. From a distance, it can resemble a cloud of smoke.

It is pine pollen, seasonal scourge of the city and suburbs, covering hundreds of cars and driveways. And this year, it’s especially intense, a gunky byproduct of a warm winter and largely dry, windy spring that conspired to bring more pollen, earlier, to New England. http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/health/articles/2012/05/31/pollen_plight_plagues_boston_and_suburbs_leaving_a_carpet_of_yellow_gunk/?p1=News_links

Article courtesy of The Boston Globe by Alejandra Matos and Colin A. Young