Dandelions

   I love seeing the dandelions in the spring-bright yellows popping up in the grass.

This year I have more than last year, thinking it is because I have been picking them and making a healing oil with them the last few years.'

I dried one batch already and just picked another small batch. I am not picking all of them, just those in groups and  just picking a few and move on. I saw a very large bumble bee in one group.

There is a photo of the oil I made last year here in that post.

My go to site for making things with herbs etc is Jan the Nerdy Farm Wife  Here is her post with several recipes to make with dandelions-most very simple. She includes a salve, oil, lotion, soap bars, and more. Here is a link to lots of ideas on Pinterest using dandelions

   In the past - like 30 years ago or more Larry and I went through a phase of making our own wines. The dandelion wine was always good.

I found a poem by Walt Whitman    

The First Dandelion

Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging,
As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,
Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass—innocent, golden, calm
as the dawn,
The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.