Delightful Daisies

Daisies bloom in the summer and I’ve noticed them on many of my summer adventures. This sweet little flower once made me think of the time when I was young and searching for love, plucking it’s peddles and repeating the words, “he loves me, he loves me not”. Daisies do in fact symbolize love, but they also symbolize purity, innocence, beauty, patients and simplicity. The word daisy is Old English for “day’s eye”, because the flower is only open during the day and closes up at night. I imagine their bright yellow center as the sun and their white petals as the sun’s rays, radiating out to those around it. Next time you notice a daisy, think of what it symbolizes for you. Nature speaks to us through its gifts of beauty. Just as the petals of the daisy opens up to the sun, open your eyes to nature.  

“When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.” – Georgia O’Keeffe  

Open up like the petals of a daisy.