Thistle in the Brush

I took this picture just after getting a new camera. I was taking pictures of everything at that point. The bubbles in my tea, the composition of our table when my friends and I went out for chinese, the marking on the back bed of my truck that looked like Jon Stewart if you tilted your head just right- everything.

This thistle caught my eye while walking along a path so I stooped down and took a few dozen pictures and found this gem amongst them. I can never seem to fully explain it but the composition just tickles a part of my fancy and it seems to always draw other onlookers. They stare at it as if it were an alien artifact found on a martian surface. The colors are vibrant and I swear that computer monitors never do it justice.