And both Mel and I are sneezing.
Mel thought he was coming down with a cold, but now we think it is just spring allergies.
Spring allergies to what is growning around us. And possibly more than just spring allergies! It could very possibly be Saraha dust allergies!
I hope this map is fairly easy to see. Kherson is located right at the very top of the photo. There is a little piece of land sticking out into the Black Sea up there, not the roughly diamond shaped Crimea Penninsula, but a little thorn shaped penninsula-type piece of land above the Crimea. That is the mouth of the Dnipro River. We are located about where the black line cuts off the photo.Yes - we do get dust from the Saraha! The wind has been blowing the past couple of days. Really strong winds. Winds that blow dust and dirt in your eyes as you walk. Wind that seeps through the cracks between window and wall and covers the house in a fine layer of dust. I confess that this is one time I hadn't thought about the dust as dust coming off the Sahara. I knew that there have been bad wind storms in other parts of Europe as well. But after viewing this photo, it looks to me like we are truly on the very edge of this dust storm.
Therefore, some of what I need to clean up used to be in the desert, lying around on the ground, waiting for just the right gust of wind to lift it up, up, up into the air, above two seas and down into my flat. Amazing.
Mayble camels stepped on this dust. Maybe it has palm tree pollen in it. Maybe it was dust in a beduin tent before it was dust on my window sill. Maybe this dust used to listen to Arabic and Middle Eastern music. Maybe this dust .....
Aaaaaaa-CHOOOO!
Maybe it actually came from Poland and is just ordinary European dust.
I can dream, can't I??
ha ha ha ha
Original photo and article are found on:
Earth Observatory, Natural Hazards, in an article labeled: Dust over the Eastern Mediterranean.
1 comment:
you are funny! my dust comes from the cement making plant across the highway!
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