Dandelions for Dinner

 Dandelions for Dinner

The baby rabbit has his meal, dandelions gone to seed. He bites them off at the ground, and eats the long stem like he’s chewing a toothpick, or sucking a straw, until he comes to the round white head of seeds. This he munches too, but not before he looks white-bearded, much like a small child would eating a bowl of ice cream. I have a million or so dandelions in my lawn. I could have a thousand or two baby rabbits for dandelion dinner. While we don’t have a planted garden, we certainly do have one for the grazing deer, turkeys, rabbits, and other creatures that like diversity in a lawn. It's interesting to watch them forage. They know what plants to eat to fulfill their bodily needs.