Why I do this!
In the morning I get to fly home, my favorite location, and I do get to go to some great places! In the last four weeks I’ve shot fall leaves in Brown County Indiana, with Jim and Sue Haverstock, fall color and coastal scenes in Acadia N.P. with Jack Graham, my home park, the Great Smoky Mountains with Jim Begley and “Snake” Barrett, and now I’ve just finished a workshop at Nelson Ghost Town in Nevada with Jack Graham, again!!!!!!! For the last two days I’ve worked with the great KelbyOne Video Team of Brandon Ford (above left) and Juan Alfonso (above right), what a great crew and two really nice guys! I have such a great time with these guys and all the folks on this list, not to mention wonderful attendees at the workshops! I’m a blessed man for sure!!! Getting to spend time with such great folks enriches my life!!!! I can only hope I reciprocate even a little!!!
That’s all great, but I had a extra special surprise today when we finished the last taping of my upcoming KelbyOne Class on Americana Extractions at Nelson Ghost Town! Leaving the barn where we had taped the last sessions, a lady was waiting and introduced herself as a KelbyOne member, and a fan of my classes. She was a really nice lady and we had a good visit. The last thing I expected was to have someone in the Nevada desert to walk up and say I know who you are, and love your classes! It was such a nice surprise, and much appreciated! Below we had our picture made together, she had a great husband and two other very nice friends!
I was thinking, driving back to Las Vegas, after meeting Byron and her friends how much it means to me to hear from people that they are benefiting from my teaching, and eBooks. I love to teach and I owe it to those that mentored me to do what I can to pass it on. You often wonder if your efforts help as much as you hope they do, Byron’s kind words re-enforce my desire to continue my efforts!! Thanks Byron!
Tomorrow I get to go spend time with my favorite person, Sherelene!! This has been a long four weeks and I am looking forward to throwing another log on the fire wit her! It’s suppose to snow this weekend!! A fire in the fireplace, cuddling Sherelene, some college football, and a getting started on my new eBooks, could life be any better!!!!!
Blessings,
the pilgrim
This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 11th, 2014 at 10:18 pm
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Well looks like I will have to sign up for another year of Kelby to watch this one. 🙂
Glad to hear you are having fun! We should have had a picture when we met in Spearfish last year. Doh!
Yes, we should have!
Did I read somewhere that you retired a year or 2 ago? Sounds like you are going more now than when you had a job! But I must say you sound like you are having the time of your life. I cant seem to afford the workshops but I catch all your classes on Kelby. I must admit I look for the preaching before the photography, it is always very uplifting. Press on Brother! God is good all the time and all the time God is good.
Steve, thanks for coming along on the blog and on KelbyOne, and yes God is good indeed!