This photograph was made on the outskirts of Gondar, near the palace of the 18th century Empress Mintweab. The girl has picked flowers from the field behind her, and mixed them with some red ones (dalia?) into a bouquet. The yellow flower is called Meskel flower, Meskel being the festival of the discovery of the true cross by St. Helena. When I came here for the first time, in the late 1980s, everything was barren and dry, there was famine. This time superfluous rains have given the country a new look.