Have you ever made a mistake while using a camera and ended up liking the “bad” photo best?

I had borrowed John’s digital point and shoot and had aimed the thing at one of the local native plants, a blooming bush poppy, Dendromecon rigida. The camera took forever to focus, and I thought it’d done its thing. But the flash went off as I was moving to put the camera back in my pocket.

The resulting photo combines a blurred rendition of the plant and mulch with just a little bit of subject matter frozen in place by the flash. It’s nothing you’d use to identify the plant, but I like it as a photo…