Achoo! Why Pollen Counts

Similar and yet different pollen.

6/10/2015

My daughter Kerrin just returned home from three weeks of volunteering in Haiti. I've uploaded her pollen photos on the Photos of Pollen From Near and Far page. As soon as I saw this ground cover with small yellow flowers I thought it looked just like the clover in our New England front yard - but different. They both have similar small yellow flowers, but the leaves are shaped differently. I love seeing that, just like people are - so similar, yet all of us so uniquely different. All adaptable to our surroundings.

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