Excellent detail and tones. This is very nice!

VZ: If you think I'm going to argue, Martin, you're mistaken. Hahahahaha.

Beautiful detail!

Judicious DOF.

VZ: Appreciate your appreciation of this shot, Remi.

The lion's dents are dented Great to make a full frame b&w

VZ: You got it, Louis. I knew someone would get the play of words and the irony of the image.

Interesting choice of DOF. Nice pic

VZ: chichi darling. So nice to hear from you.

This is superb and delicate. I appreciate the words play!
In french they are called "pissenlit" (peeing in bed)

VZ: Good deal, Richard. You got it too. I am complitely puzzled with the origin of the "pissenlit". Have any idea?

"Löwenzahn" (germ.), but this "lion" is so gentle, so smooth
"hauchzart" like a poem) and softly curled, almost 'tooth'-less, so that nobody ever should be afraid of being hurt by 'him'. But I'm not sure if the "Lion's Tooth" is the same flower as the "dandelion" (so translated in my dictionary), for when hearing this term I first remind of the yellow leaves and -in a later phase- the blow-flower (Pusteblume- oh, lovely childhood-remembrances!)of this plant!
In German literature we have wonderful poems over the this poetical flower!

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.

From “Leaves of Grass," by Walt Whitman

http://www.deanita.de/fruehling/mai_09_loew1.htm

VZ: A gentle, smooth and toothless lion? Only in your rich imagination, dear.
Here's how my dictionary explaines the history of the word "dandelion":
WORD HISTORY: Dentdelioun, the Middle English form of dandelion, makes it easy to see that our word is a borrowing of Old French dentdelion, literally, “tooth of the lion,” referring to the sharply indented leaves of the plant. Modern French dent-de-lion, unlike Modern English dandelion, reveals to anyone who knows French what the components of the word are. The English spelling, on the other hand, reflects the pronunciation of the Old French word at the time it was borrowed into English. For example, the t in dentdelion probably disappeared early in Old French, having been absorbed into the related sound of the d. The earliest recorded instance of the word occurs in a herbal written in 1373, but we find an instance of dandelion used in a proper name (Willelmus Dawndelyon) in a document dated 1363.
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I love Whitman. Thanks, Philine.

Die weiße Kugel des Löwenzahns
hat winzige Zähne aus Hauch.
Vielfach versponnen
locker geschlossen;
die spinnfeinen Fäden
bleiben zusammen
in ihrem duftigen
Bau aus Fühlern.
Ordnung und Luft.
Wenn der Wind nicht in sie fährt,
bleibt die empfindlichste Blume unvermehrt.

Rose Ausländer
Kathryn alone is qualified to translate this beautiful poem.

VZ: Well, per your wish let's wait till Kathryn is back.

that's cool Z. mal

VZ: some like it hot, mal

Wonderful shot, especially love the use of black and white

VZ: Thanks FLOOG. I usually do the conversion, if I feel I will gain something from it.

Beautifully done.

VZ: Have to agree with you, Ian.

I like this very much. A superb rendition of very common or garden plant.

VZ: Very common is a key word here, Bill. If don't mow my lawn for a couple week, I'll have a field of dandelions on my front yard.

This is a very beautiful and delicate image. Is it a dandelion? If so, it looks nothing like any one I have seen. A bit different from my scabby dandelion of today!
Ingrid

VZ: Hahaha. They all God's creation, dear. And God wouldn't want to create an ugly flower, wouldn't he?

It is Beautiful! I love that you chose to clarify the intricate pieces.

VZ: Sometimes less is more, Kelly.

Gosh, what a picture! Amazing detail.

VZ: Thank you, dear. You're kind of early today. Usually, you comment way after midnight.

Exquisit Viktor: fabulous DOF

VZ: My great pleasure, Chris.

That's what lion's tooth look like ? ... mmmmm .... last time, I meet one, it seems less romantic I prefer yours (not your tooth ... ppfff ... the flower !)

Kiss from France coming back home in fine fettle

VZ: Welcome back, dear.
Who knows more about lion's teeth, but Lioness herself! I'm sure you still have lion's teeth marks on your so graceful neck.
Could you take a picture of a French dandelion for me, please?

The origin of the modern french nickname probably comes from the leaves properties as a diuretic ;o)

Very delicate shot Viktor - the light complimentimenting the shallow depth perfectly ;o)

VZ: Diuretic? The dandelion leaves are used here to aid the digestive system. I'm sure somewhere in the world folks use it as an aphrodisiak. What a plant!

Weeds can be such exquisite plants...they should whip the hat around, and engage you as their PR guy, VZ.

VZ: As long as they pay, I don't mind, Ray.

Glad you've break the mistery...or else I'll be thinking this was a nursery for baby scissors
I never paid attention enough to discover this kind of details in a lion's tooth, and it's a fantastic surprise to discover them through your eyes...(oh well I knew there was a reason for keep coming back )

VZ: A nursery for baby scissors! I like it, Lina.
I'm so glad you have the reason for coming back, dear.

Very fun! I love that the center seems buried in the soft outside.

I like the one "thingi" - not sure what you call it in English, sorry - that is clinging to another. It can be perfect without perfection...not sure if that makes any sense...

VZ: You puzzled me from both sides, Aksel. I'm squeezed in between the "thingi...that is clinging to another" and the "perfect without perfection" without any clue.

Nice flower, can you send one over please?

VZ: Think twice before you ask, Nig. It will spread through the old kingdom like a wild fire.

Lion's teeth? More like pince nez. Again, a beautiful shot.

VZ: Pince-nez! Holy smokes. I already have "baby scissors" here. Truly, our imagination has no boundaries.

Up close and personal!
Very cool!

VZ: Yep. I'm a nosy kind of guy.

When I saw french dandelion, I'll take it ... promis

VZ: Good deal.

It surprisingly and mysteriously

VZ: Did I mysteriously surprised you, Ms. Doskanova?

So delicate...

VZ: Beacause it is.