Day 715: petal

A flower is an ideal metaphor for this: for it withers, scattering its petals, just when we find it to have attained its optimum beauty.

Artwork
Yayoi Kusama : Petals (1988)

Word of the day
petal : any of the usually brightly coloured parts that together form most of a flower

Quote of the day
“By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds