Singing in the Garden

To rot is to live… —Thorpe Moeckel

The name daisy comes from “day’s eye” because the flower is only open during the day and closes up at night. ~Wikipedia

That time of year thou mayest in me behold, when yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang upon the boughs which shake against the cold. Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang….William Shakespeare Sonnet 73

All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"-an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "Beauty tinged with sadn