"Happy Baba"

I have always loved the photos of Meher Baba gesturing "be happy" or "I am very happy". It is such an expansive gesture of delight, and particularly when his face is beaming with that wonderful smile of pure happiness.

That is where this image started. I then decided I wanted to place him at the Center. The stairs leading from the boathouse to the top of the hill between the Lagoon Cabin and the Original Kitchen seemed like the perfect place.

I wanted to add the birds rushing past and the morning sunlight coming through the trees