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- from the Flickr Set * Promenade Pissenlit *
Dandelion / Pissenlit (``Taraxacum``)
Small *yellow-headed wildflower* -- or WEED -- distributed in fields and lawns globally, bane of farmers & gardeners everywhere...
But... favorable growing conditions throughout the North American Great Lakes region during a long, temperate `warming-up` (Spring) of 2012 produced a truly *bumper-crop* of DANDELION flowers throughout southern and eastern Ontario -- in field & town alike!
In their billions... and trillions ... they shone in glory.
This year, the humble *dandelion/pissenlit* added a true presence of its own throughout that gentle, agrarian landscape -- an exuberant carpet of color, that shrill, bright, optimistic yellow of early summer.
It was almost like witnessing the colors of Giverney itself! and the hope of good crops to come...
Photos taken during three separate `photo driving expeditions``( early-April-mid-May 2012)
Areas covered (surrounding Toronto Ontario):
Durham Region
York Region
Wellington County
Dufferen County
Renfrew County
Lennox & Addington County
Frontenac County
Lanark County
Leed & Grenville Counties
- from the Flickr Set * Promenade Pissenlit *
Dandelion / Pissenlit (``Taraxacum``)
Small *yellow-headed wildflower* -- or WEED -- distributed in fields and lawns globally, bane of farmers & gardeners everywhere...
But... favorable growing conditions throughout the North American Great Lakes region during a long, temperate `warming-up` (Spring) of 2012 produced a truly *bumper-crop* of DANDELION flowers throughout southern and eastern Ontario -- in field & town alike!
In their billions... and trillions ... they shone in glory.
This year, the humble *dandelion/pissenlit* added a true presence of its own throughout that gentle, agrarian landscape -- an exuberant carpet of color, that shrill, bright, optimistic yellow of early summer.
It was almost like witnessing the colors of Giverney itself! and the hope of good crops to come...
Photos taken during three separate `photo driving expeditions``( early-April-mid-May 2012)
Areas covered (surrounding Toronto Ontario):
Durham Region
York Region
Wellington County
Dufferen County
Renfrew County
Lennox & Addington County
Frontenac County
Lanark County
Leed & Grenville Counties
- from the Flickr Set * Promenade Pissenlit *
Dandelion / Pissenlit (``Taraxacum``)
Small *yellow-headed wildflower* -- or WEED -- distributed in fields and lawns globally, bane of farmers & gardeners everywhere...
But... favorable growing conditions throughout the North American Great Lakes region during a long, temperate `warming-up` (Spring) of 2012 produced a truly *bumper-crop* of DANDELION flowers throughout southern and eastern Ontario -- in field & town alike!
In their billions... and trillions ... they shone in glory.
This year, the humble *dandelion/pissenlit* added a true presence of its own throughout that gentle, agrarian landscape -- an exuberant carpet of color, that shrill, bright, optimistic yellow of early summer.
It was almost like witnessing the colors of Giverney itself! and the hope of good crops to come...
Photos taken during three separate `photo driving expeditions``( early-April-mid-May 2012)
Areas covered (surrounding Toronto Ontario):
Durham Region
York Region
Wellington County
Dufferen County
Renfrew County
Lennox & Addington County
Frontenac County
Lanark County
Leed & Grenville Counties
My first trip with Continental had me laying over in Toronto, my view. BRRRRR it was cold in February
-- from the Flickr Album "An IceCap Fan tills I dies" by Anthony Whittingham
Nowhere in Canada has more loyal #hockey fans than #Newfoundland & #Labrador. The homegrown St. John's "IceCaps -- leading scorers in the American Hockey League #AHL Junior "A" Division -- has served dince 2011 as *farm team" for the National Hockey League #NHL franchise #Winnipeg #Jets.
-- from the Flickr Album "An IceCap Fan tills I dies" by Anthony Whittingham
Nowhere in Canada has more loyal #hockey fans than #Newfoundland & #Labrador. The homegrown St. John's "IceCaps -- leading scorers in the American Hockey League #AHL Junior "A" Division -- has served dince 2011 as *farm team" for the National Hockey League #NHL franchise #Winnipeg #Jets.
- from the Flickr Set * Promenade Pissenlit *
Dandelion / Pissenlit (``Taraxacum``)
Small *yellow-headed wildflower* -- or WEED -- distributed in fields and lawns globally, bane of farmers & gardeners everywhere...
But... favorable growing conditions throughout the North American Great Lakes region during a long, temperate `warming-up` (Spring) of 2012 produced a truly *bumper-crop* of DANDELION flowers throughout southern and eastern Ontario -- in field & town alike!
In their billions... and trillions ... they shone in glory.
This year, the humble *dandelion/pissenlit* added a true presence of its own throughout that gentle, agrarian landscape -- an exuberant carpet of color, that shrill, bright, optimistic yellow of early summer.
It was almost like witnessing the colors of Giverney itself! and the hope of good crops to come...
Photos taken during three separate `photo driving expeditions``( early-April-mid-May 2012)
Areas covered (surrounding Toronto Ontario):
Durham Region
York Region
Wellington County
Dufferen County
Renfrew County
Lennox & Addington County
Frontenac County
Lanark County
Leed & Grenville Counties