A captive and captivating beauty

Zinnias do not die, they just fade away; they lost their luster first before they do their color, but many of them are still beaming in their glory. While watering from outside the fence this afternoon, I saw this captive (kept inside a chain-link fence) and captivating beauty.

Do the flowers know they are beautiful? Emily Dickinson wondered the same question.

How many Flowers fail in Wood –
Or perish from the Hill –

Without the privilege to know

That they are Beautiful –