Dandelions - Blog Posts
dandelions are magic. literally tiny suns in the grass that turn into the moon and then the stars when you blow on them. fucking insane.
One of the school janitors was outside and saw me making flowers crowns and asked to take a picture of us. So I dre one of the pictures she took while we were sitting on a bench.
Didn't know how to draw @entheundead as a deer, because of a inside joke.
I picked the most hilarious picture she took.
Dandelions are blooming!!!!
Didn't have two classes today so I decided tp make flower crowns. I made a flower crown and thought my friend to em too.
@entheundead
There weren't many other flowers around so the flower crown is made of only dandelions. Im gonna make many more!
Dandelions are one of my favorite flowers.
They're gonna start blooming soon , along with other spring flowers. So I can't wait to start making flower crowns.
I havent done watercollor in awhile so this was fun, but I did it on the wrong kind of paper. Buts thats fine, I had fun. And I can aways redo it on the right kind of paper.
Anyways I think I will name them Dandelion !
dandelion facts:
Stories about dandelions can be found in folklore almost worldwide!
Dandelions have a diuretic effect (they make you pee,) which is reflected in some of their common names (piss-a-bed)
most North American dandelions reproduce asexually by apomixis, creating loads of identical daughters!
Since they reproduce asexually, these dandelions don't need to be pollinated, even though they produce lots of pollen and nectar. The dandelions that pop up in a lawn feed pollinators without receiving any benefit for themselves.
Dandelion seeds can sprout at any temperature between 0 and 36 degrees Celsius!
Dandelions can regenerate themselves from just a piece of their taproot!
dandelions have a near worldwide distribution and were introduced to North America as a food crop!
Dandelions grow bigger and produce more viable seeds in conditions of higher carbon dioxide, suggesting that human-caused carbon emissions are good news for the dandelions!
Dandelions have been shown to pass epigenetic changes to their DNA caused by stress to their offspring.
Anyone else notice the dandelion life cycle seeming all messed up? I remember them lasting for a good chunk of the summer when I was young. They were taller too. They've only popped up a few weeks ago where I am and some of them are already turning white. They're much shorter too. It makes me sad
Dandelions are one of my favorite plants just so you know.. ^_^
"I don't wanna bother you"
Have you considered that this is how your presence feels?
Comfort Character
Drawn in September of 2023
art of my comfort character, Logan! I tend to draw them when I’m trying to get out of art block lol
Wait what!? Are they for real?!
A DANDELION
And is Justin Vernon literally pointing at it while wearing the albatross face mask?!
I didn’t see the signs no (well the albatross ☑️)
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HAPPY FREAKING HALLOWEEN TO US?!
What parallel universe did we step into
🎃 Imagine this. You are walking through your yard. It's one of your favorite places, all sprawling garden rows and vibrant green grass. There are herbs for cooking and spell casting. There are daisies - so many daisies - in every shade of your rainbow. Up ahead you spot a small cropping of weeds, and set your foot on each stepping stone of the path that leads right to them. The house is a little farther now, but you are still within the confines of your tall and impenetrable fence. Nothing comes through that fence. Not now and not ever. Within it you are safe. Your lover and your fresh baked buns are safe. (The buns, of course, are in the oven turning golden as you speak. It's an old family recipe, jotted lovingly on a recipe card.) You reach the weeds and pluck a dandelion. Caught up in a moment of buoyant childlike whimsy, you make a wish and blow, blow, blow. Hundreds of featherly florets scatter. You laugh. You watch as they ride the breeze, one floret in particular. It drifts and dances like all the others, but as the wind changes direction it swoops over the fence. You lose sight of it, and send a silent apology to whoever ends up with a cropping of dandelions in their yard. Did you know that dandelions don't need to be purposefully planted all at once? All it takes is for one small seed to catch on the breeze, and by then it has spread irreversibly. You'd never know where the initial seed came from, because it has started so small and floated so far. You swallow, staring at the fence. It was you who blew the dandelion in the first place. It was you who ventured too closely to the edge of the garden. It was chance and weather that landed it where it did. You breathe in, and deep and out, expelling the growing anxiety from your body. You turn back to the house. You have those homemade buns to tend to, after all. But as you reach the door you can't help but cast a furtive glance over your shoulder, to the spot where that dandelion floret disappeared. You can never blame someone for the dandelions that sprout in your grass. It’s untraceable and irrelevant. They all come from the same place anyway: a private moment performed too near the property line. Of course the recipient would pluck the weeds so unwittingly planted. Of course they, too, would blow, blow, blow and spread the florets far and wide. Once you blow a dandelion, you never get it back. It isn’t yours anymore. 🎃
Check out what I did! It took a bit, but it was worth it.
That's right! A jar of dandelion fluffs!
I carefully cut them from the plants using manicure scissors, then sprayed them from a distance with aerosol hairspray, laid them on a post it to dry for a few hours, carefully cut off the stems, & used tweezers to put them into the jar carefully.
I know it's something small & seemingly dumb, but I really like them & plan on doing more when they are back in season.