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[which_chick]

One of the first spring flowers we get is coltsfoot. The flowers (NOT DANDELIONS!! THESE ARE NOT DANDELIONS!!) are more spring to me than daffodils because they aren't planted flowers. Planted flowers blooming for springtime seems like, well, like cheating. Coltsfoot grows along the sides of dirt roads, in disturbed soils. It's kind of a weed, not something people plant. The flowers are only about three or four inches tall and they grow up as naked stems with bright yellow flowers that follow the sun, all heliotropic and stuff.

Three ways you know these are not dandelions:

1. Coltsfoot has sort of leafy stems where dandelions have smooth stems.
2. Coltsfoot blooms before it has leaves where dandelions have leaves first and then bloom.
3. Dandelions come along much later in the season of warming while coltsfoot is one of the earliest spring wildflowers in these parts.

So. Not dandelions, damn it. I trust we are all clear on that now?

Also, today is my birthday. I'm thirty-five.

Comments

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

Interesting directory choice for that first picture.

[gwangi.livejournal.com]

Oh, and feliz cumpleanos!

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

It's from a previous project. I'm a bit on the lazy side for making new directories and such. If it helps, there are actual porn pictures in the directory, for values of "porn" that include black and white comics from Japan.

Anyway, the default directory for 20/20 (image editing thing I use to crop pictures) and for the FTP client I use are sticky -- they stay what they were last set to -- so until I change them on purpose, they'll put stuff in the "porn" directory automagically.

[ornery-chick.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, and happy springtime! I have dandelions, a daffodil, and loads and loads and loads of wild violas.

[ladyivy.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

[fooliv.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, and may the Fed deliver many more basis points to your money market accounts.

[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday! We've got real dandelions here, and some hyacinths. Something else is getting ready to bloom, something ostentatiously flowery like you would buy from in front of the supermarket. The snowdrops are long gone and the woodruff is sort of fading.

Oh, and the tree is starting to bloom.