I know I am using plenty of clichés here, but I think you get the idea. Go to the big city, and they spend big bucks to keep the above flower out of their lawns. Being basically a country boy, I love the diversity of a country lawn. It is not just one boring plot of the same old grass.

I remember when we first moved into our country homestead in 2000, there was a yard pump in the side lawn with wild violets around it. When I left in 2021, almost the entire 3 acres were covered in violets every Spring. They came out with their blue flowers about the same time as the dandelion orbs shown here. Depending on the time of the year, the lawn was sometimes, shaded in blue, and sometime yellow, white and the dark green of crabgrass.

To me, there is nothing more beautiful as dandelion orbs in the Spring.