Wildflowers ©2012 - The base photo for this montage is one of the many back buildings on the abandoned property of the former St. Paul's Abbey retreat house in Andover Township, New Jersey. I wrote a little more about the history of the property in the writeup for "Jonah" in which I used another of the buildings. My eye was immediately drawn to the single stem of flowers thrusting upward in the building's entrance, framed by hanging ivy and the darkness of the interior. It was the only flower in the area. The child is from my vintage photo collection and I'm still undecided if it is a boy or girl. No matter, he or she matched the mood I was looking for and a few of my backyard birds completed the composition. "Wildflowers" - a flower of an uncultivated variety growing freely without human intervention. Love the sound of that!
