Photo: Diane Edwardson, March 3, 2012. Each time the tree trimmer even touched the pine tree, you could see the tree exploding its pollen as if it knew it might not be able to blow its pollen out later. (Click on photo to enlarge.)
Watch this YouTube Video of a pine tree being cut down for a true understanding of how pines trees blow their pollen when their lives are at risk.
Between Corralitas Drive tree trimming and Semi Tropic Spiritualists' Tract continuing deforestation, no wonder so many of my neighbors are having unusually bad allergy symptoms for the past week.