The Life Cycle of the Hapless Dandelion ...

Some folks think these are weeds ... whilst others consider them to be a lovely flower or a tasty salad.

Tonight as we were beginning our evening walk, we rounded the corner to the grammar school, and I encountered the coolest field of spent dandelions. There must have been THOUSANDS of them!

Mom gave me enough lead so that I could bound between the stands of dandelions, liberating the fluff from their individual stems. Every three or four jumps. I would stop and give myself a good old shake. I ended up with a white mask of dandelion seeds ... and then I spent the better part of the next hour trying to clear my sniffer ... Pffttt.