Pink dandelions

I know I'm crazy but I just couldn't resist.

My pink dandelions are blooming!

Aren't they fun? These are Taraxicum pseudoroseum as opposed to the common lawn weed, Taraxicum officinale.

 Now that they are flowering, I'm wondering if they will successfully naturalize in the lawn like their yellow relative. I'm seriously tempted to grow up a bunch and plant them out in the front yard in place of my regular yellow ones. It would be so much fun to watch people walk by and do a double take!

Friday Music Video!

No cartoon this week... Instead I made a music video. It is, as you might expect, rather awful -- my singing recorded on a $10 microphone generally used for skyping with the family, the video recorded with my regular point-and-shoot camera, and the audio is dreadfully out of sync with the video (tip: Don't change the lyrics AFTER you shoot the video...) BUT: it was fun. So now you have to listen to it. And like it.

This idea started in a conversation with The Soil Sisters in Buffalo last summer. The lyrics started with ideas from Jan (I think? I don't remember now) then changed significantly by me. My friend Rachel was videographer, and that's my incredibly sexy boy friend Jason playing the guitar shovel. If you aren't familiar with the original song, it is here.
As I said... it was lots of fun. Now I want to do Lady Gaga and Mika