It floats through the air riding on the stiff breezes of spring, clinging to any and all hard surfaces until cleansed by an April shower.
It's stirred by the first rumblings of warm weather, clear skies and the long-awaited rites of the Masters tournament, opening-day baseball, picnics and walks in the park. But it's in observation of those rites that you're mostly likely to come in contact with the clingy yellow dust: Particles of pollen.
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