'Ye of day'. Bellis perennis, Lawn Daisy or Bruisewort, Our Lawn, Venlo, Limburg, The Netherlands

            It's said in many a handbook that pretty little Lawn Daisy flowers from January to December; so all year around! It's still Winter here but as soon as the snow had melted off our Lawn... indeed, there was the white and yellow with its young pink fringes of Bruisewort low on the  soggy ground, struggling above the still inch-deep frost.
The great European-English poet Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400) had a special love for Bellis perennis. It reminded him of everlasting amore. In the Prologue to his Legend of Good Women he calls this Daisy 'dameseye' or 'the eye of day'; it's 'the emperice ... of floures alle'. This entire Prologue is a comparison of Dameseye to the Love for and of women. 'It's not in my power to praise it fully, but it's "fresh of hewes (= color) in wynter as in somer newe"'. And that was my experience today as well.
Here's a Daisy from our Lawn, a bit bedraggled by Winter Rain but courageously opening up to a brighter patch of clouds. Bellis perennis, Always Pretty.
   

Taken in: Nederland / Limburg / Venlo (show map)

Taken on: February 4, 2013

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Camera: Sony DSC-TX100V, f/3.5, 1/100 sec, 4.4mm, ISO 125 (more info) (hide info)

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