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These are the barns of Winterthur as Autumn begins to turn the fields. Winterthur is actually its own zip code in Delaware. We visited the new exhibit(until January 2023) on Jackie Kennedy's inspiration to redecorate the White House. Henry Dupont, who owned Winterthur, advised her, and much of what she did was borrowed from this magnificent estate. You are looking at the historic barns now. The Duponts at one time employed over 200 people which is why they got their own zip code. There was also a Dairy Farm on the site as well as many gardens.

My focus has always been on the natural world and its beauty whether it be a dragonfly, flower, frog, or tree bark. When viewing our world, I look at how people and architectural structures fit into it now and in the past. Do they coexist with their natural surroundings or look out of place? To that end, what compels me to take photos is, not only our natural world, but the history we created within it, thus combining my two loves of nature and history. It is my intention that my photographs of landscapes and architecture, as well as close ups of nature and historical artifacts, give us a sense of the world around us. As a photographer and naturalist, I continually search for the obscure, as well as the obvious, as I believe without...