Daisy

My favorite flower is the daisy, and lately I find myself doodling all over my notebooks and papers the image of a daisy. The OED defines a daisy as

"1. a. The common name of Bellis perennis, family Compositæ, a familiar and favourite flower of the British Isles and Europe generally, having small flat flower-heads with yellow disk and white ray (often tinged with pink), which close in the evening; it grows abundantly on grassy hills, in meadows, by roadsides, etc., and blossoms nearly all the year round; many varieties are cultivated in gardens."

The daisy is my favorite, I think, for it's simplicity. It is not a complicated flower with many layers and colors. It is charming in its simplicity. The etymology of daisy is not long, going only as far back as OE in the words for day's and eye- dæges eage, (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=daisy) so named because of the flower's nature to close in the evening but open it's yellow eye back up in the morning.