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Tree and Goldenrod, originally uploaded by themaneatingcow23.

Over the past week I have noticed more and more goldenrod blossoming all over, casting a brilliant yellow hue over all of the green up here. Every day you see more and more yellow, and it’s really beautiful. You can see quite a bit of it in this photo I shot on Monday, left of the tree.

Seemingly unrelated, I’ve also started to notice that my eyes have started to burn as I drove to and from work. Since it’s cooler out now, I just assumed it was from the central air in the car.

As the yellow has progressively taken over more and more fields and my eyes have progressively burned more and more, today I suddenly came to the revelation that the two things might just be connected. Uh, Duh.

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Another revelation I’ve had: In Vermont, if you see a cop on the road your chances of seeing another cop on the same drive rises ten-fold. I swear, for days you won’t see a single cop. Then one day you see four over the course of three miles.