Okay, here is my first full render based on the tutorial, which was absolutely perfect, by the way (the tutorial, NOT the render..
). I still don't know squat yet but this tut gave me something that I can read and re-read to understand why I did each step in the process.
Stone color is somewhat different but that's cool. I can always work on color selection another time. This is just about the process.
The only way this could have been better is if there were a path or a trail in the tutorial. For the life of me I can't figure out how to make those.
Anyway, here it is...