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I’ve started on it!!!!!!!!

I m making real progress so hopefully the wait is not going to be too long! In my dreams John Gompf has been whispering to get on it so here we go! Stay tuned! Blessings, the pilgrim

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Thankfulness!!! What America Got Right!

Give me a minute .I would like to tell you why I believe we need to be thankful! We live in a society that is focused on everything bad, evil and corrupt about this country. I will give you that there is plenty of that in the world we live in, but that is not [ ]

Images for your weekend!

Have a great weekend!!!!!!! The Pilgrim

The Wake Up Call………….

You fly into New Orleans, pick up your rental car and drive to the hotel down near Bourbon Street, check in and crash from a long travel day! Then before your head hits the pillow you call and leave a wake up call! Wait . that s not the kind of wake-up call I was talking [ ]

Some thoughts about gear………

If you ve come here before, you ve no doubt seen some gear posts! This year is my 56th year of being a serious photographer. I ve been super serious from the day I started, thus the Nikon, Nikkormat FTN above! I was a high school teacher and football coach and decided I had always wanted a [ ]

It’s been 7 years………

This month, 7 years ago, we lost Wesley. He s not gone, he just changed addresses, but he s not here, but then he is, very much alive in our memories! It seems to me that the value of a life is contained in what you leave behind. The night of his Celebration of Life, his [ ]

Heaven’s Gain – Our Loss!

In the early morning hours of March 11th Diane Oliver lost a husband and soul mate, our family lost a treasured and loved member, and the world lost an amazing man. Ron was a tribute to the word, courage. A number of years ago Ron lost both legs just above knees to a rare [ ]

An Amazing Day!

Tomorrow, February the 9th I will be 80! My wife and family conspired to have a surprise birthday party for me yesterday. I knew my family was coming in to celebrate Cade s, my grandson s, birthday so it was a complete surprise to me! Family came in from far and wide to help in the [ ]

Loss of another great friend!

Jim holding court! Jim Sugar was born on Febuary 8th, 1946 at 9:00 p.m. That was a fact I learned while we drove together to Apple s headquarters in Cupertino for a meeting with Apple Execs. We were viewing Apple s new digital camera and the beginning of a new era!! I learned that fact about [ ]