Places we Lived
Growing up in a small town in central Illinois, it was flat, corn or beans, and the only pretty part of it all was a park called Weldon Springs. My sophomore year spent in Arizona, opened my eyes about how to live somewhere and see beauty wherever you are. The part of the town where I lived was at the bottom of a knoll and had a gorgeous view of the Superstition Mountains. After moving back to Clinton, I noticed different things within town that made it beautiful. That was the start of my photography hobby. After graduating, I joined the Air Force. I was in Texas, Maine, New York, and all during that time, traveling and living, I saw the beauty of the view. There is a British TV show called An Idiot Abroad. In one of the shows, the “idiot” made an extremely insightful observation. While visiting Petra in Jordan, he was sitting in a small cave hovel across from the entrance to Petra. He said, “I would rather live in this small cave looking at that beautiful entrance than live inside P