18 Oct
What time is it?
By Silver Blue
Ask the dandelion clock. What’s a dandelion clock?
A children’s amusement in which the number of puffs needed to blow the filamentous achenes from a dandelion is supposed to tell the time. ( http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dandelion_clock )
Silver Blue, who reminds you that when you ask the time of a dandelion clock, you must not be afraid of the answer. (paraphrased from Madeline L’Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet)