Dent de Lion! June 6, 2010
Posted by littlebangtheory in Art and Nature, Love and Death, macro photos.Tags: Buckminster Fuller, Carl Sagan, constellations, dandelions, Edwin Hubble, god, Sticky hands (which ought to generate more than a few hits)
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Ah, the lowly dandelion, bane of the Chem-lawn crowd, delight of de little ones.
“Do you like butter? …Oh yes, you do like butter!!”
It’s so ubiquitous as to be nearly invisible to the average passer-by, to the extent that I have no photos of its fulsome blossoms from 2010. And as I chose not to spend all night looking for the photos which I know I do have, I’ll cut right to the chase: it’s the ghost of the dandelion which most captivates the child in us all, its gossamer globe glowing in whatever light encounters it:
…its stem popping crisply as it’s picked, bleeding sticky whiteness where your pinky meets your palm, and then, held up close to amazed eyes, a new universe unfolds with a complexity and clarity worthy of Edwin Hubble or Carl Sagan, presaging Buckminster Fuller by a million years:
If one needs proof that there is a God, one need look no farther.
And then, with a mighty puff from a child’s tiny lips, this earth-bound constellation explodes in a super-nova of delight, to be scattered on the wind, to begin again its miracle to the wide-eyed delight of some other child.
They’re going to come in waves throughout the summer, Dear Friends. And when they do, pull over, get a little bit sticky, and send them on their way.