2012, Day 176 - Knee deep

This afternoon I had the pleasure of visiting a really amazing private garden.  The owner has been working on it for decades and the whole design is centered around enormous rock formations that she has created in the yard of her hillside home.  It covers acres and is heavily planted with natives and carefully selected non-natives.  Along one side of a large pond I found this flowering vine growing along the riparian verge.  Under other circumstances I might not have stopped for a picture but the sun broke through the clouds and hit it just right...

Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 100/f2.8L IS
100mm, f8, 1/800 sec @ 320 ISO