In addition to blooming flowers, the arrival of spring also means the arrival of pollen, which has started to float through the air. I've heard people talk about pollen, and how much it affects them. I, thankfully, fall on the lighter side of that scenario. But I do notice a few symptoms here and there when conditions are right.

On this day, I discovered that encountering pollen in Georgia is very different than what I have experienced in Pennsylvania. My coworkers tell me that this is the time of year when everything outside turns a shade of pale yellow. I can confirm.

I headed outside on this day into the pollen to cut the grass and decided to take a stroll through the yard to see what was happening. The crape myrtle beside the garage is also waking up. I am looking forward to seeing it flower this summer.

The dogwood in the front yard is beginning to bloom.

It's hard to tell with all of the greenery in the background. But the flowering dogwood tree is blooming in pink.

It's taken the Sweetgum tree around 3 weeks to go from bare to fully green, which is a pretty remarkable transformation.

Half of the first azalea in line next to the driveway is blooming.

I looked a little closer and discovered that this azalea is actually a series of several individual plants, half pink and half white, that have all grown together. The pink half appears to wake up before the white half.

I don't see much activity on the other azaleas yet.

I see I have another redbud tree. That's nice, except it's growing in a weird spot in among the azaleas.

I see a few red blooms getting ready to open on the other azaleas.

Just like the Sweetgum tree, the privacy hedges went from bare to fully green in about 3 weeks time.

I headed into the backyard to see what I could see. The area seen in the photo above in between the landscape timers - which have become a shade of pale yellow like everything else outside - and back porch looks like a great location to put a patio or something similar.

I seem to have developed a thing for panorama shots, only because it's a convenient way to create a large picture when your camera lacks pixels. I hoisted the camera over my head and took a few pics to try and stitch together.

The yard looks much better without the rusty fence.

Two-picture backyard panorama. I should probably move the daffodils and bluebells out of the middle of the grass.

I fired up the new lawnmower and cut the grass. I then broke out the weed trimmer and did some edging along the driveway.

And finally, I fired up the leaf blower and tried to blow the debris into the grass.

The edging line looks nice along the front walk.

And just like I had speculated last year, I did a lot of walking cutting this yard.

This is good because I could always use the exercise.

Three-picture front yard panorama. I stitched the previous three pics together to create a front yard panorama. The angle is a little off on the left. But you get the idea.

I have a feeling that this panorama fascination I have is going to continue for the foreseeable future.

This time, the subject was the side yard next to the driveway.

I need to get rid of the basketball backboard and pole.

Three-picture side yard panorama. The photo above turned out a lot better than I expected.