Just Dandelions but I like ’em!
This is the season for the lovely dandelion. For many the dandelion in only a nuisance in the form of a yellow flowering weed, but that is not how I think of them. They are lovely flowers that make their life so close to the earth.
They make their appearance in spring as yellow mane heads pop forth across the Japanese landscape. The pop up wherever their seeds floated in from the previous year. They wiggle their way into cracks in the pavement, and along the railroad tracks that criss cross the countryside. They sprout proudly and before we know they under a metamorphosis and become balls of seeded fluff. All ready to spread forth across the land.
They are always yellow or that is at least I thought until I came across something different. Nestled in between a stone fence at a shrine I came across the elusive White Dandelion of Chiba Prefecture. It was large and bold in the cloudy early afternoon light. I never know if I will see another White Dandelion, I hope I do. I will keep my lens open to see whatever chooses to cross in front of my focal plane.
