Lazy daisy days
It’s not really hot enough to call this Wisconsin summer lazy just yet. But these happy flowers are making their move to take over the lawn.
We go around. They only bloom for a few weeks, and they add a beautiful brightness to the mornings and an ethereal glow to windy twilight moments.
Daisies are actually in the sunflower family, and are heliotropic: their faces turn toward the sun as it moves through the blue summer sky.
Two songs about daisies come to mind, both about love. “Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do….” made famous by Nat King Cole, and also known as the Bicycle Built for Two song. And then there is “I’ll give you a daisy a day,” Glen Campbell’s ballad of long-lasting love.
Tell me now, which one are you humming?