Nature Don't Mess Around

You've gotta love the nature of nature, it works on a pretty simple set of rules. One of those is to be tougher than what wants to eat you. And this little thistle bud certainly looks tough enough to survive.

But the other side of the coin is that nature creates such intricately beautiful structures that its hard not to marvel at how amazing they are. Just in existing they are astounding. And there's a lesson to be found in there somewhere, if you felt like finding one that is.
Tags: nature, thistle, macro