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There are a lot of dandelion clocks about ..... this is a close up of one.  Amazing how intricate it is.  


I found the following on http://circleoftheyear.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/dandelions.html


The dandelion makes a good barometer, when the flowers have seeded and are in their fluffy stage, you can tell if the weather is going to be wet or fine. In fine weather the ball extends to full, but when rain approaches, it shuts like an umbrella. If the weather is going to be showery it keeps shut all the time, only opening when the danger from the rain is past.

And a poem by Helen Barron Bostwick [1826- ? ]  Here is the last verse:-

Pale little Dandelion,
In her white shroud,
Heareth the angel-breeze
Call from the cloud;
Tiny plumes fluttering
Make no delay;
Little winged Dandelion
Soareth away.

Helen Barron Bostwick [1826- ? ]