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Taking photos of wildflowers in the spring was a tradition for me for a number of years. After a few years, part of the challenge for me was to find a flower or group of flowers together with some other object to enhance the photograph. While looking for this opportunity one day, I stumbled upon some beautiful Showy Lady's Slippers which were to some degree protected by an old and rusty barbed wire fence. I called the image " The Rugged and the Beautiful".