Of course, dandelion flowers turn into
dandelion clocks ready to spread seeds into the nooks and crannies.
WHEN I was young and time was slow, boys and girls blew away the summer days on
dandelion clocks.
Oh the tick tock tick tock of those
dandelion clocks, why oh why can't the time just stand still.
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BLOWING
DANDELION CLOCKS If you blew all the seeds off a dandelion globe with one blow, it meant you had a secret admirer.
Photographer Mike Barratt from Frogs Design created backdrops including Christmas carols in December to blowing By Neil Atkinson Head of News neil.atkinson@examiner.co.uk
dandelion clocks in May, from a Strictly dance off in February to happy Halloween pumpkins in October.
HISTORIAN and farmer John Lewis-Stempel's family have lived in Herefordshire for 700 years and a sense of history pervades this chronicle of wrens and robins, campion and
dandelion clocks, moles and badgers, which charts a year in the life of his meadow, simply told month by month.
Once we had squelching, cow-patted fields of spry flies and
dandelion clocks, of teeming hedgerows and ground veined by tree-roots, where spiders span while butterflies dreamed on the high-seeded grass and the gorse blazed and the blackberries grew plump for the picking fingers of mothers and children - and those fields rolled to the valleys and rivers, passing the clusters of reeds around slow, deep ponds, where the frogs spawned and the sticklebacks swam and the voles hid in whiskered holes near the splashing wellies, under the swoops of dark birds.
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It was an appropriate name because Snow was a Samoyed, one of those fuzzy white dogs who look like
Dandelion clocks with legs.
No candles, paper boats, nor any of the white acts of mourning, only - diaphanous as a daylight moon - the
dandelion clocks blowing time away over the double grave we've laid them in.
Rutter also presented his thoughts on innovation and design at a recent panel at Luxe Pack New York, which included Marisol Simard, president,
Dandelion Clocks, an innovation consultancy; and Michelle Green-wald, CEO, Inventours.