Just another quirk of nature

We are having another cold spell. Nothing too cold like freezing daytime temps, but it's cold again. Saturday was 80*F, with a big storm that came late in the afternoon and stayed well into the early hours on Sunday. A friend of mine says the weather should change and stay warm heralding spring in true form in about two weeks. Just in time for heavy pollen season. We've gotten a light coating of pollen on the grill already, and I noticed the deck is starting to turn green. What I mean by that is a strange heavy coating of yellow-green pollen, on top of a layer of mold. Warming temps and spring rains with a lot of moisture brings that stuff out. Also the backyard has started springing up with violets. I think they are violets. Some type of creeping vine with little purple flowers. Once the weather warms up and the grass comes out of dormancy it chokes out the vines and flowers. I guess that's what St. Augustine does. The back neighbor's fescue and whatever mix has started turning color faster than ours. We've got clumps of green scattered on a mainly beige lawn. We didn't fertilize the lawn this weekend and should have, but then again, we did get almost 3 inches of rain. Most likely the fertilizer would have washed away and not have made much of a difference. I noticed the past two weekends, there have been some powerwashing of homes going on. I still think it's too early in the season to do it and rather wait until all the heavy yellow stuff has left.