Fall flower

The picture is a little dark, but it was pretty early in the day, and overcast. A longer exposure time would have helped, I think, but since I was doing this handheld the risk is that the picture will be blurry. Always a tradeoff!

You can't tell from the picture itself, but what caught my eye with this flower is that it's still so perfect and alive - when fall is encroaching all around it. Everywhere the flowers are fading, the leaves are turning colours... and here was this beautiful little flower against a (nearly) completely green background. One last hurrah!