The motivation when I first picked up a camera was to become a documentary photographer. Decades have gone by while I searched for the right story to capture. Life almost snuck by me waiting in anticipation. I can't tell you how or when it dawned on me. I'd been making it all along. The things I wanted to document when art what daunting. The place I came back to when photography became a burden. The work I lost myself in when work was too much.  My art has been my life, that my life has been my art - since we started the homestead.