Faded Flowers

I went out to the garage the other morning and happened to notice these faded flowers in the driveway right by the garage door.  I had locked the door, and when Kathy went to throw the flowers out, she couldn't get to the garbage can, so she just put them down on the macadam.  I thought that even they were pretty much gone, they had a beauty to them which I found surprising.  So I tried to photograph them in such a way that their beauty was obvious.  I think the black background was a help in drawing attention to the flowers themselves.