This was somewhat inspired by anther photo I saw somewhere.
Dandelions are blooming everywhere. I don’t want them in my yard, but they grow faster than I can get rid of them. They start with bright yellow flowers before they seed out. This one was up by the front sidewalk in full sun.
It was windy so I put a card-board box around it to keep it still. I set up a tripod over it with my macro lens. I was planning to make a focus-stack by taking multiple images, but there was so much light that I stopped the lens down to f/16 and got plenty of focus depth with one photo.
I did darken down the background quite a bit and increase contrast to get more detail. I thought it made a nice enough picture for a weed that I would like to eradicate.
Back into hiding for me.
Jason Frels 
I know lots of people consider this a weed, but it’s one of our native wildflowers — Pyrrhopappus pauciflorus, aka small-flower desert chicory, or Texas dandelion. I love them. If you don’t, they’ll fade away in a couple of months. This is a nice image, for sure.
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Yeah, they make pretty flowers, but the also make your yard look like your house is abandoned.
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They are supposed to be entirely edible as well, though I have never gone out and grazed in the front yard.
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Oh soooo biting my tongue at what came to my mind when you mentioned grazing in your front yard! LOL!!
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I can hardly be responsible for all the strange things that come to your mind.
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Haha! Yes, not for ALl the things, BUT for this thing, Oh Yes!!
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Even a weed has an intrinsic beauty.
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That’s what my mother told me when I was growing up. Not sure what she was talking about.
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That’s a dandy photo, and I’m not lyin’. Lazy as I am, I’d probably leave the dandelions alone, and tell everyone that I planted them there on purpose.
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I am going after them with the mower soon. My neighbor has a dandelion plantation going in their front yard, so there will be no shortage.
The dandelion is an inspiration plant. It will grow up through cracks in concrete and grow anywhere.
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The photo makes a nice header image.
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If you wait a short while you can get a moody B&W shot of the fluffy seed heads – just before they disperse and provide you with more flowers!
I believe that you can use the dried root to make dandelion tea but that sounds like an abomination to me.
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The reader tried to hide this from me again, but I found it! This may be the the most lovely picture of a dandelion that I ever saw! Really glad you came out of hiding to take the picture! 🙂
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I wonder if the reader is trying to protect you based on the number of times you have smacked your head.
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You got me on this one. I did laugh out loud BUT I didn’t smack my head! 😛
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Nice blog
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Thank you
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My pleasure, followed you ☺️
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Oh yeah, well I followed you back.
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Wonderful photo. They’re among the first plants we see in spring. I like them a lot!
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Hooray for a Texas native.
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Me or the flower?
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The good thing is you can have it both ways. Two for the price of one.
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It looks tasty, try a salad. Nice picture.
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