Who Could Not Love a Daisy?

Daisies are wonderful.

They are perky and pretty.

Just looking at them makes me smile.

At a beautiful inn in Western Massachusetts,  The Red Lion, there was the biggest bunch of daisies I've ever seen in my entire life, shown in the photo above. They were in a brass container.

Yeah! Brass!  Now regular readers of this blog know I love brass, even though modern decorators say it's obsolete. So I was very happy to see the daisies in brass!

Outside on the patio, where a dear friend and I had lunch, more daisies adorned our table. So cute.

Now, I know I've written about daisies before but because they are such darling charmers, I'm doing it again.

I even love the song "Bicycle Built for Two" where the girl being wooed is named, what else?  Daisy.

    "Daisy, Daisy give me your promise true."

Now, can you find the daisies in the inn's front lobby?

HAVE YOU EVER KNOWN ANYONE NAMED DAISY?

Daisy Lore: He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

While practicing the banjo last night, the song "Bicycle Built for Two" came to mind

It starts with,
                     "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer true."

Remember that one? "I'm half crazy, all for the  love of you" and on and on.

It's a sweet song that old-timers usually love to sing. In the song, of course, Daisy is a girl's name, instead of a flower.

Daisies, themselves, are among my favorite simple flowers.  Don't you just love them?  They are so cheerful and pretty and they last a long time, too.

When we were kids, we always plucked them over some boys we liked. "He loves me, he loves me not."  It was always such a bummer when the last petal was "He loves me not."  Usually, I just tossed that daisy and would start all over again.  Ha! That cracks me up thinking about it.

One of my all time favorite garden books is "Garden Flower Folklore" by Laura C. Martin. Oh, it's filled with fabulous information about dozens of flowers.




Regarding daisies, did you know that the name daisy came from "day's eye" and dated all the way back to the time of Chaucer?  It was said, according to Ms. Martin, that daisies cured eye problems.

Here's a sad tale to tell pertaining to daisies, according to the book.  An ancient Celtic legend notes that daisies came from the spirits of children who died at birth.  The legend says that God sprinkled daisies to cheer grieving parents.

Ms. Martin also wrote that daisies are the flowers of April.  In Victorian times, they symbolized innocence.

Well, to tell you the truth, I don't know whether any of the folk tales about daisies are true or not. I just like these flowers!  A vase filled with daisies on the kitchen table, placed on top of a colorful doily,  makes me happy and I smile when looking at their sweet faces.

Here's hoping today you have a daisy kind of day!

DO YOU LIKE DAISIES?