I cut a leaf off from about half way up the thing. There are some bigger and some smaller. This one is about 10 1/2 inches long and there was another 2 inches or so where I couldn't get the scissors all the way up to the stem. 
This is the backside:
Funny thing. Just 40 some odd minutes ago when I was out there, all the blossoms had disappeared. Now, only of them has opened back up, but now it is a shaggy white, almost furry looking thing instead of the yellow dandelion like flowers from earlier.
I'm telling you, it's an alien!