The much-maligned dandelion:
Humble, yet unnoticed in its beauty.
Yet when covered in glorious dew
Each feathered seed is alive
Shining like a jewel,
A small spark of sunlight.
To remind us that what we call weeds are, in fact, beautiful flowers.
(Same could be said of most people too.)
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Lady Fi 
awesome pictures.. 😀
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Lovely. I saw a tattoo of a dandelion on a woman’s shoulder. It was delicate and stunning. I don’t know how the artist managed to create something so realistic and beautiful on someone’s skin.
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I have a macro feature on my camera, too, but my pics don’t turn out as nice as yours.
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Wonderful photos of this flower.
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A precious and beautiful flower…Lovely shots!
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Even dandelions can be beautiful! Love your shots and words!
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I love dandelions when you can blow them.
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Beautiful. 🙂
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Gorgeous captures and such perfect macro shots! And I love your words “To remind us that what we call weeds are, in fact, beautiful flowers.
(Same could be said of most people too.” So very true and a great reminder for the day! Hope your week is off to a great start, Fiona! Enjoy!
Sylvia
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Amazing creations of god and so well captured
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Just catching up from being away … you’ve had some remarkable photos the past week! Love those autumn tree shots! Wowza!
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—The white fluff is my favorite part 🙂 especially when they fly… xxx
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Fabulous – really loved both the photos and the insight!
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen dandelions looking so beautiful. These are wonderful macros.
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Delicious and very bright colors, I love these dandelion seeds.
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Beautiful dandelions and photo’s. They look like a dream.
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My children and now my grandchildren used to blow away all the seeds of the dandelion in one blow. Your photos are beautiful.
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It´s amazing how God´s creation is so stunning, even in a “weed” like plant.
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Wonderful shots of the dandelion seeds. We used to blow on them and make a wish as children.
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An amazing shot. I have a dandelion cast in perspex and cannot understand how it was done. I have loved them since telling the time with them as a child. First puff one oclock, second two, until all the seeds are dispersed.
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actually i love dandelions…and i know they are weeds but i think them pretty flowers…and a wish on each blow…
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Glorious light in those shots – even dandelions have beauty in in them.
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Fantastic. Speaks for the delicacy of the flower and the dew drops. How wonderful
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Great captures LadyFi. Yes, we are surrounded by beauty, if we would only take the time to open our eyes and appreciate God’s creation. Thanks for your images of just one of them!
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LadyFi, those are wonderful! Thanks.
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Bravo! A Jewel of a post!
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These shots are fantastic! I really need to get a macro lens!!! Thanks for the push or should I say challenge!!
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I used the macro setting on my zoom lens for these! But yes – do get a macro lens… you can get even closer!
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I envy these seeds because they can fly and travel vast area. 🙂 Great shots.
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Love the flying Angels.
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Beautiful reminders ♥
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Thank you for such a beautiful tribute to a dandelion puffball, which seems to me universe itself where life is contained in each seed.
Yoko
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LadyFi: Neat job in capturing the lowly dandelion.
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lovely images
loved the conclusion of your poem!
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Terrific photo! Dandelions have a bad rep but I have lovely memories of blowing the seeds into the wind and watching them float off like wishes.
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I love how you put these posts together … and get us to think “big” thoughts while falling in love with a ‘weed.”
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I agree that YOURS are lovely, Fi – just don’t blow the seeds into my yard in CO!
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lots of things, like this flower, reveal its beauty when we look a closer.
beautiful photos.
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Always an interesting subject for lens. 🙂
Great captures.
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Neat captures! I’ll play with them, blow a little wind, puff! they are scattered back to seed.
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I’m always drawn to these for picture taking.
Lovely captures.
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If we look closelt even the plainest things have beauty Fi – Dave
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They are indeed much maligned. But you have made them look absolutely gorgeous glowing in the beautiful light.
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Beautiful shots.
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Did you know that dandelion flowers are actually edible?
You can use them to make jam!
Some filling idea for your mince pie recipe this coming Christmas?
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Wonderful macros highlighting the wonderful soft detail of the dandelions!
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I love that inner world of the Dandy lion. 🙂
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ah, I thought it was frost there for a while. 🙂
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Your world with dew on a dandelion puffball is so pretty, and your thoughts deep. I also honoured this weed earlier this year. 🙂
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Great post, weed or flower? I love the comment about people also. Zinger.
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Amazing photos…and of course, words!!
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Perfection in nature! Love your images… so amazing!
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I have long been intrigued by the power of the dandelion and its seeds. As an art project I have scattered the seeds onto paper and framed them mid flight.
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I don’t see dandelions in southern California, however, they bring back memories of blowing on them as a child in France.
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Your photographs (I just checked them all) are stunning, as is your text. Your header as a slide show is the first I have seen. Beautiful.
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The dandelion looks so magical the way you show it. Lovely images!
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Beautiful series. I especially like the bottom shot.
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Very lovely indeed!
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Thanks for sharing with us, LadyFi, the beauty of what is easily over looked.
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Beautiful dandelion captures LadyFi!
I really love them… 😉
Greetings from Holland,
Anna
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You are so right, Fi, about flower and about people.
Kay, Alberta, Canada
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Weeds can be flowers!
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· Humble but beautiful. It is enough.
· hugs
CR & LMA
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I love dandelions and dressed in mist is the best!
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Sometimes, we judge things by others’ remarks and don’t make up our own minds. Lovely job!
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Oh what a beautiful take on a “weed” we all love to hate 🙂
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Oh so lovely. Reminds me of being a little girl when I thought dandilions in seeds were lovely; I hated to blow the seeds away (like kids always ldid back then). it’s good to remember sometimes!
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Beautiful photos. I’ve always loved dandelions when they look like this. Unfortunately, I also know when they look like this that I’m going to have a lot more of them on my lawn!
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Completely delightful, these images. Thank you, my friend. You capture them so well.
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Really Awe inspiring! So refreshing, the words and the captures as well 🙂
My Yatra Diary…
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Loved the pics and your write-up too
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lovely! And what you said is totally true too!
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Your thoughts are so beautiful…as are those pictures. You capture things in a perfect light- all the time.
Thank you.
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I love the miracle of all those tiny seeds..and yes I am a child at heart and blow them into the summer breeze:)
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lovely post…cheers!
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I like dandelion flowers. Spring has been quite cool, so I don’t know about summer. Is it getting cold yet?
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It’s been a very mild autumn so far, but it’s cooling down a bit now…
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There is nothing more beautiful than a grassy roadside verge covered in banks of dandelions. I love them, and the dandelion ‘clocks’ are so pretty, I have a photo of one in my sidebar. In reality I don’t think there is such a thing as a ‘weed’ – except in fanatical gardener’s minds. Every plant has a purpose, medicinal, culinary, or in the beauty field, it seems to me that in the hustle and bustle of our modern day lives we have largely lost the knowledge of the uses of these plants/herbs that we once possessed.
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I love dandelions
when we were kids we would makes wishes as they floated by
and we never pulled them out, we waited for the wind 🙂
lovely photos
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Beautiful and stunning machos of the dandelion. I love them. and I especially like shooting them. They amaze me with all of their little parts. They are just amazing. Wonderful captures. genie
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Fresh!!!!!
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Excellent Macro shot and depth of field from a technical perspective. Simply beautiful from an artistic perspective.
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A lovely post with wonderful shots and wonderful words!
Thanks for sharing your beautiful world;o)
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Hope you are having a fabulous week****
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Hello Lady Fi! 🙂
These are excellent macro shots of a dandelion and I love how you added your own thoughts in words!
“To remind us that what we call weeds are, in fact, beautiful flowers.” ~ So true and well stated!
It is such a pleasure to meet another ‘Lady Fiona’ who is also British and living abroad ~ WoW! What an amazing trio of coincidences and it never fails to amaze me as to how small the internet can truly be! Some of my friends call me “Lady Fi” for short ha ha!
Thank you for stopping by my blog and for sharing our similarities ~ that was pretty mind blowing to read! Your kind comment is very much appreciated! I love your photography and I follow quite a few awesome photographers on Blogger 🙂
Best Wishes,
Your ‘twin’ ;))
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My wife used to have a dandelion–in the stage of the one in the photo–that was encased in plastic. I always wondered how the heck they did that. Surely, it must have been sprayed with something to keep everything in place before the plastic was poured.
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and before they are the fluffy creatures, they are fields of golden yellow…and are STILL amazing. Pretty cool for “just a weed”. 🙂
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