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This looks like a spring beauty wildflower Sandi - they pop up in woodland areas and near ponds and creeks all over the eastern half of the country. What is so striking about this is the division in composition with the red on one side and the green on the other with the flower in the middle plus the dappled sunlight. Wonderfully composed and captured.
You did a nice job with this Tigs. You know me....I would have zoomed in, centered the shot for maximum detail and left it at that. Your version actually tells the story of a lonely flower. It also helps that part of the shot is in deep shade. Just think....if you had come back again three hours later, the flower would be in sunlight and everything else would have been in shade. I, however, didn't want you to get such a good shot; so I flew back to Indiana and sprayed the flower with RoundUp.