this one's wild - it's a Lensbaby shot, completely defocused using a flower-shaped aperture. There was this shrub standing alone in the foreground there with all the slanting sun on it, and the flower aperture just transformed the shrub into a flower-shape festooned *thing* - like I ran out and covered it with sparkles.
An interesting picture, but the best part of it is your explanation, because somehow in my head I did indeed picture you running out to that bush and covering it with sparkles...