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Apr 23, 2007 17:08

I've never really understood why people hate dandelions so much. The high point of my day, today, while slogging through store calls for The Stupid Company was the drive up Telegraph, where the median was filled with lush-as-yet-unmown deep green grass speckled with the sparkling yellow heads of dandelions in bloom. Their bright yellow heads just ( Read more... )

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kuroshii April 23 2007, 21:46:31 UTC
somebody famous said it, i forget who:

a flower is a weed somebody decided to keep,
a weed is a flower somebody decided to throw away.

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the_living_end April 23 2007, 22:51:38 UTC
i love dandelions. i think the look happy. plus they grow on their own as if out of nowhere!

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dorothy_parka April 24 2007, 02:21:39 UTC
my mother never weeded, and this drove our anal-retentive, dandelion-hating neighbor crazy! we liked to use them as barbie sunflowers.

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cellio April 24 2007, 02:32:25 UTC
I like dandelions and other wild flowers. I like the colors and the spontenaety. I don't see the appeal of carefully-cultivated specimens neatly lined up in rows.

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