This is, thank God, NOT my yard! Dandelions are sort of pretty when the puffy seed blooms are ready to fly on the wind to spread the kin all over, to torment people like me who spend hours trying to get rid of them. I took this photo at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and I can tell you that I’ve seen no other place that can nurture these weeds to such a high degree. I saw some in Alaska that were triple the size of these, but they were not so numerous. I mean there are FIELDS of them here in Central Missouri! (Nikon D300, ISO 200, 50mm, f14, 1/80 sec. Developed in Lightroom 3 Beta 2)