Are you bored with your usual shooting locations? Then you might want to head over to a garden center. It might be just the change of scenery you need.

I was at the Antique Rose Emporium the other day, and while my companions looked at plants, I took a few photos, including this one of (some sort of) flower on a wooden bench.

It was a nice break from what I usually shoot, though observant readers will notice right away that this is a doomed flower. Which makes it not all that different from my usual photos of doomed towns. But still…

near Brenham, Texas
photographed 3.1.2014