Just like you said. We had recent rain which knocked the pine pollen out of the air, so we are in the perfect time between that blessed yellow event and the summer sauna. But, aren't you in the similar weather of the Palmetto state?
The weather brightens about three weeks ahead of you there, and emergence of flowering things, but the terrain on this side of the state is rather flat and...well...not as 'inspiring.'
Miss where I lived up there in the Piedmont - near Forest Oaks where the GGO is played - in the country on an acre+ with all hardwoods (2 pines) - on a hill near rolling hills and fields and ponds and deer in the yard....
...but not the ice and snow storms!!
LOL