King of the Lawn

Ready for Takeoff

They haven’t actually started popping up in my yard yet, but I’ve seen them in the lawns of people who live closer to town, where all the flowers are about a week or so ahead of mine.  I used to fight it, but now I embrace the dandelions.

(BTW, clicking through on either of the above pictures will load a VERY large file, wherein you can see pollen on the yellow dandelion.  It’s pretty awesome-looking, if I do say so myself.  Which I do, apparently.)