Beneath a bluff, the water forms a calm, deep pool, tinted in spring by a drifting haze of pollen from the pines.
But you'd never know this from Seurat's scene of a beach, a wedge of sea and a stretch of cloud-banded sky, brought into being one dot of paint at a time, with the dots spreading, like sand, or pollen, or a humid haze, out of the picture and across the frame.
A thick haze of yellow pollen has blanketed the sky across parts of the south-eastern US, with reports of spring allergy symptoms on the rise.
We were moved, although the tear trickling from my left eye could have been caused by the visible pollen in the air as the sun set, an orange-fuchsia haze.
— The sticky cloud of pollen that had clung to the Augusta National Golf Club like a yellow haze since midmorning Sunday began to clear by 2 15 p.m., just as Tiger Woods ambled from the practice putting green to the 10th tee to join his friend Mark O'Meara for a nine-hole practice round.
Aside from the dispersion of volcanic ash, HYSPLIT is used in several other atmospheric transport applications, including the dispersion of hazardous materials (e.g. nuclear material after the Fukushima reactor accident), air quality modelling (e.g. ozone, visibility, haze, and dioxin), dust storms, smoke, and the transport of biological material (e.g. pollen and mould spores) (Stein et al., 2015).
Pine tree pollen erupts across the state each spring, but Jeremy Gilchrist, a photographer in Durham, N.C., said he had never before seen the thick yellow-green haze that filled the air on Monday.
