Just Dandy

After two days of rain showers, the countryside has gone all green and verdant as all of the foliage bursts into life. The path to the station is now slug, snail and weed infested ... and that's just the teenagers (joking - that's on the way home).

Definitions of dandy on the Web:

* bang-up: very good; "that was just dandy"; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing"

* Dandy was the mascot of the New York Yankees between 1982 and 1985. He was a large pinstriped bird that sported a Yankees hat. He had a mustache that gave him an appearance similar to that of former Yankee pitcher Sparky Lyle. ...

* A dandy (also known as a beau, gallant or flamboyant person ) is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies. ...

* Dandy, or Dandy Dungeon in some versions, is a dungeon crawl computer game for the Atari 8-bit computers. ...

* "Dandy" is a 1966 song from The Kinks, appearing on their Face to Face album. In it songwriter Ray Davies skewered the would-be master lover of ...

* The Dandy is a long running children's comic published in the United Kingdom. It is published by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. ...

* The Dandys were a British indie-pop act that formed in 1996, releasing their only album, Symphonic Screams in 1998. ...


... and of course the humble dandelion!

Edit: Some of these links don't work because they end with a closing bracket. I've asked blip central to look into it :-)

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LOTD: If you could see me know's swirling leaves blip - is a great composition and DOF and captures the autumn mood perfectly.