Here is a riff on Mike Gifford's (@mikegifford) global warming take on this flower, for the wwyd178 challenge. He did a lovely job... if you want to see it, here is the link:
I think that I got the desolate scene from Pexals.com, but it was a bit of a rabbit hole, so it may have been from deviantart.com. Anyhow, making the flower shadow was fun. Cutting the flower out was not fun. ;)
10/1/2020: Finished year 7 (!), with continuing gratitude towards this amazing community. Based in St. Louis, MO. Regular worker-bee and self-taught photography dilettante....