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-- 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.
But... favorable growing conditions throughout the Great Lakes region during the long, temperate `warming-up` (Spring) of 2012 brought 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 the 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...