Dandelions Gone to Seed
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Dandelions Gone to Seed
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
As I painted this bouquet of flowers, the air was full of dandelion fluff and the ongoing sounds of spring. Some of this fluff was blended into the oils on the canvas. We have a lot of dandelions and I do not discourage them. Dandelions are after all flowers but just with a bad public relations campaign. I prefer to work with nature rather than against it. There is much that is good about this little flower. I probably should start using it more in salads.
I listened to the calls of the bitterns in the marsh, the yodel of the loons and all the song birds still singing their territorial songs. It was a beautiful morning. I was in my bathing suit summer wardrobe and my avian air force was out in full with the able back-up of swarms of dragon flies. I did not receive a single bite.
Goldfinches and chipping sparrows like to hop on to the dandelion stem just below the flower. The weight of the little birds is enough to pin the head of the flower to the ground where they pluck off the seeds, one at a time out of the 200 seeds found on a typical flower head.
This flower has a bad reputation. The name first came into English as "dent de lioun" in the late 14th century. That phrase came from the French "dent de lion" which means "lion's tooth" in reference to the coarsely toothed leaves. From this phonetic start as a name, it was a short step to to the flower now called dandelion.
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