Today's photo was taken a few days ago along the little dirt road beside my home. It is lined with both maple and beech trees that make a good show of color in the fall. It also provides ample opportunities to photograph wildflowers and insects during the summer. In winter, whitetail deer can often be seen foraging for buds and twigs.

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Today's photo is a dandelion seed head from my backyard. These delightful flowers have been the subject of folklore and legend for hundreds of years. In my region children are taught that if you make a wish and then blow on the seed head, your wish will come true - but only if all the seeds are blown away.

Other beliefs include:

• When you blow the seeds into the wind you sent love and affectionate thoughts  to a loved one.
• Dandelions can predicts whether your beloved loves you too. If all of the seeds blow away his love is true, but if some remain he does not return your affections.
• The number of seeds that remain represent the number of years you have left to live.

I prefer to think of the dandelion seed head as ripe with wishes. Blowing them into the wind releases your wishes allowing them to come true. 

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Today's photo was taken last May with a vintage film camera macro lens on my DSLR using an adapter. This lens does an amazing job of capturing the sparkle in dewdrops and is great in good light. It doesn't match my 85mm Macro for all-around shooting, but if the conditions are right it can capture amazing shots. As an added bonus, the vintage lens creates a hexagonal bokeh; whereas, modern lenses create round bokeh.

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