
“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs
as clothes do against cold.
For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases,
it will have no power to hurt you.
So in like manner you must grow in patience
when you meet with great wrongs,
and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”
Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
I've always loved nature and trying to capture its beauty for others to appreciate. Born in Tennessee, raised in Ohio, and now back in Tennessee for the past 17 years, Appalachia is in my blood and heart. I thank my Granddad for teaching me the beauty of photography, my parents for developing in me a love of God and his creation, and my Aunt Toby for showing me how to find beauty in anything.