The Perils of Lawn Mowing

"BLECHH, I think I just ate a snail....

Mom really ought to inspect these better before she expects me to eat them, sheesh.  I'm out'a here, I have to go find some better dandelions. .."

My Favorite Flowers

My Favorite flowers are popping up all over the place.  I love seeing fields full of dandelions and I have always been genuinely baffled by their lowly, hateful weed status.  Theses humble, tough, nutritious and beautiful dandelions are also one of the most important early food sources for honeybees in the Northeast.  Many hives exhaust their food supplies in March or April and often starve to death mere days before food becomes available.  Dandelions provide a desperately needed early source of nectar and pollen.  The nectar is made into honey and mixed with pollen to produce bee-bread which is fed to young bees as they grow.  These little weeds are often the difference between life and death.  Just as long as no one sprays poison on them. 

"They taste good too.  Yum!"