When we were in Waterton, Canada, mom and Auntie Grace were charmed and delighted by the beautiful dandelions that spread out toward the lake. Art however, was chilled to the bone to see all the golden heads since he's battled them for 35 years in Illinois.
When we go walking in Hawaii in the evening, I've seen these weeds growing wild along the street and sometimes in people's lawns. They look very unsightly.
However, on this evening I found that all those weeds had sprouted a cloud of pink feather like plumes and looked really pretty. I wonder what kind of plant this is.
Ah well... I suppose beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.
Weeds like those pink ones I could live with. Pretty!
ReplyDeleteWeeds are often very pretty. After all, they're just flowers growing in the wrong place;-)
ReplyDeleteI remember the acres of dandelions in the Colorado mountains growing wild were just beautiful...
ReplyDeleteI love wild flowers - what we might call weeds. There are places that I try hard to eliminate them from, such as the vegetable garden, but elsewhere we try to contain them so that we can enjoy them without them taking over.
ReplyDeleteThe pink puffs look like they might have been planted to help with erosion control in the ditch? Like Illinois, Kansas has enough dandelions. The leaves can choke out a yard of nice green grass. Wonder what dandelion wine tastes like? DrumMajor
ReplyDeleteI've battled those @$&;:?£#>%~{ dandelions, too. But I LOVE lupine. One time while visiting my aunt and uncle in New Brunswick and driving along a country road with them, I commented on the beautiful lupine bordering the road. My uncle quickly pointed out to me that lupine are weeds. I still like them, though, both the flowers and the relatives!
ReplyDeleteThey sure look pretty .
ReplyDeleteAww they are pretty. Sadly when the flowers fade, they will again be weeds.
ReplyDeleteHenbit is our lovely Spring weed here and will soon be mowed down.
I love the violets and buttercups that are growing in our lawn. I guess they are weeds too, but so pretty. I remember being little and making long chains out of the clover. Your right about beauty being in the eye of the beholder.
ReplyDeleteI think a "weed" is an unwanted visitor. But dandelions might look pretty when they are yellow, but when they become just an ugly stalk with broad green leaves taking over a lawn, not so much. I can understand how Art feels. But the pink "weeds" are so pretty!
ReplyDeleteYour photos are beautiful, as usual. My camera just died, and I'm researching a replacement. Would you mind revealing what you use?
ReplyDeleteDandilions are bane of some people's existence here as well.They fight them all summe.They are yummy , the leaves and my mum made wine from them but I never worried much about them.
ReplyDeleteIf I had those feathery weeds you ahve I would be very happy indeed.
I once picked a big bouquet of pretty purple weed from the side of our road , brought them in and put them in a vase only to discover an hour later my table covered in aphids, i almost lost all my house plants.
They are pretty to look at, but I sure would not want them in my yard!
ReplyDeleteThere is no such thing as a weed, only a plant where you don't want it to be. Dandelions have much to recommend them. My parrots love the leaves. As for the pink weeds, that's the problem with HA anything will grow there and does.
ReplyDeleteWeeds have many uses too - there's a recipe for dandelion wine in my Weeds Book
ReplyDeleteI hope this comment goes through,as I have been having trouble commenting on other blogger accounts.
ReplyDeleteTell Art that in Switzerland they leave the dandelions in the fields for the cows to eat.
The rain is trying to wash the mountains into the oceans and the lightning is so thick you could execute a thousand hardened criminals by just giving them curtain rods and asking them to walk across the courtyard; but Kay is merrily contemplating weeds. Now THAT is zen for y'all.
ReplyDeleteCould you rant a little more about the oil prices please? I liked that.
aloha,
walt
Having lived in Ohio for seventeen years and Kentucky for three, I can say in a paraphrase of the old song, "I fought the weeds and the weeds won."
ReplyDeleteIn Albuquerque, New Mexico, which is in the desert (as you wll know of course), we weren't even supposed to plant anything at all in the backyard.Front lawns only had grass.
Dandelions are an important source of food early in the spring before other plants get going. Bee keepers count on dandelions...I keep them
ReplyDeleteweeds are probably very environmentally friendly!
ReplyDeletereminds me of the sea of plumes on the sugar cane fields. No sugar cane fields anymore on the island.
ReplyDeletethey are nice looking
ReplyDeleteAloha from Honolulu
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Dandelions go well in salads.
ReplyDeleteInitially they were imported as ground cover, but they escaped and became weeds. I think those pink things are just lovely.
Those pink "weeds" are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteAll hybridized plants and flowers came from natives somewhere along the line. Many natives are considered weeds, at least o some one. I haven't noticed any hybridized forms of dandelions, however. :-)
Drum Major: I have a feeling the weeds just got out of control and nobody takes care of it.
ReplyDeleteLynn: I'd love to see your buttercups!
Dick: I've written to you at your blog about the cameras. My Canons have served me well.
Walt: I could come up with all kinds of rants since Jon and Sarah have been informing us of a lot to rant about.
Hank Chapin: Oh no, now you've got me humming that song!