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Words for Thought #18
Think About It Tuesday Cee’s FOTD Becky’s #SquaresRenew Photo Credit: (c) 2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Location: Greenway Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
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Birds of the Carolinas #6
The Carib Grackle (Quiscalus lugubris) The Carib Grackle also referred to as the Common Grackle is a tropical blackbird which is taller and longer than the typical blackbird. The plumage of Grackles are entirely black, however it has a beautiful glossy iridescent body that may display violets, purples, blues, and greens when the sun is shining…
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2024 RDP Sunday: Aurora
An Aurora as seen from Lemon Grove, California. Ragtag Daily Prompt-Aurora Cosmic Photo Challenge-In the Evening Photo Credit:©️Wayne A. Wilson (my brother-in-law) … All Rights Reserved. Location: Lemon Grove, California, USA God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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2024 Monday Window: 05.13
Acqua Vista Ludwig’s Monday Window Photo Credit : ©️2024 Amanda Waters Beagles (my niece) … All Rights Reserved. Location: Acqua Vista-Little Italy; West Beech Street; San Diego, California, USA God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
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2024 Macro Monday: 05.13
Eastern tiger swallowtail Macro Monday Becky’s #SquareRenew Photo Credit:©️2022 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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Happy Mother’s Day!
It has been a beautiful day to rejuvenate, to renew the mind, and enjoy nature with my grandson today. Becky’s #SquareRenew Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens and Altura UV filter attachment. Location: Patterson Pond; Crandall Bowles Children’s Farm; Anne Springs Close…
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2024 Cell Pic Sunday: 05.12
Tipula (Acutipula) luna When we see an infiltration of these Tipulidae we know summer is approaching and we do not want a burgeoning of them like we’re having with the cicadas. Crane flies are harmless to people but can cause damage to plants and your lawn. Plus, they can be really annoying if they make their…
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2024 Weekend Sky: 05.11
Northern Lights Aurora Borealis Hammad’s Weekend Sky God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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2024 Weekend Sky: Rainbow 🌈 from Years Past
A Rainbow burgeoning across the sky captured many years ago by my dad as we were traveling to parts unknown (at least to me nowadays) somewhere in the USA. I reconstructed my dad’s slides by Digitizing them via a Wolverine Titan 8-in-1 High Resolution Digital Converter renewing them for viewing for years to come. Hammad’s…
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2024 LAPC #298: To Be Young Again
We can’t go back to being young again, but that doesn’t stop us from feeling young once again. When we reminisce we remember how we felt when we were young, the excitement of getting on a bus for a week of adventure with friends. We remember the fun times of venturing into Baja California (…
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2024 Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #18
The Blue Iris is a symbol of Faith and Hope. They have been used at funerals as a symbol of sympathy since the times of Ancient Greek Mythology. The goddess Irish has been considered the link between heaven and earth, where she guides souls into the kingdom of heaven. Floral Friday Cee’s Flower of the…
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2024 CMMC: May Denim Color
This week I chose a variety of photos from previous years I hope will meet Cee’s CMMC theme sufficiently. Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: May – Denim Colors Becky’s Squares-Renew God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
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2024 Sunday Stills: Groups in Monochrome
Groups Moving Forward It’s been raining quite a bit here with thunderstorms today as well as off and on all week. Therefore, I decided to comb through my arch to see what I could come up with to (hopefully) satisfy the themes. I’m combining Sunday Stills, Becky’s Squares-Moving Forward, Throwback Thursday, and Leanne’s Monochrome Madness…
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Moving Forward Through the Desert
Come on along for the ride, we’re just gonna meander around through the desert here in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Growing up in San Diego, California my church youth group would practically make annual camping trips out to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Several church families would bring their dune buggies, dirt bikes and give rides…
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Birds of the Carolinas #5
Great Blue Heron The Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) can be spotted around ponds and lakes. I normally see them around the smaller lakes and ponds in and around Anne Springs Close Greenway. Great Blue Herons can hunt during the nighttime as well as during the day. Interestingly they have a high percentage of rodents-type…
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2024 CFFC: Indoor Seating
In Memory & In Honor of Mother’s Day For Cee’s CFFC challenge this week for Indoor Seating I chose a selection to honor the mom’s in my life [My mom, My Maternal Grandmother, My Grand Aunt (my maternal grandfather’s sister).] I also selected a couple which are the reasons I’m a Mom and Grandma. This…
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Wordless Wednesday: 05.08
Be Wild Be Square Don’t Worry Be Happy Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday Becky’s #SquareRenew Cee’s Flower of the Day Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L.Waters … All Rights Reserved. Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Location: Gardner Park Neighborhood; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all…
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Words for Thought #17
Think About It Tuesday Cee’s FOTD Becky’s #SquaresRenew Photo Credit: (c) 2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens Location: Gaston County Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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GP Garden Topiary 1 to 3
One to Three Photo Processing Challenge-May 2024 Becky’s Squares-Reconstructed (Processing) Cee’s FOTD Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Processing done through Pic Collage and Pixlr. God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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A Mixture of Oranges to Delight Your Senses
Weekly Prompts Color Challenge-Orange Becky’s Squares Cee’s FOTD Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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2024 Monday Window: 05.06
Stained Glass Windows Ludwig’s Monday Window Becky’s Squares Photo Credit:©️2024 Fred Blackburn God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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Monday Portrait: 05.06 —Burgeoning Cicadas
South Carolina has experience a burgeoning of Cicadas due to the simultaneous emergence of two large broods, Brood XIX and Brood XIII. Brood XIX is the brood that has infiltrated the Carolinas. The Brood XIX variety, also referred to as periodical cicadas, emerge every thirteen (13) years across the Midwest and the Southeast. This is…
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Floral Renewal Macro Monday
Hybrid Sweetbriar Rose(Rosa ‘Lady Penzance’) Becky’s Squares-Renewal Macro Monday Cee’s Flower of the Day Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Ultra-wide Camera Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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2024 Weekend FOTD: 04/.05
Burgeoning Wildflowers Oxalis articulataAKA Pink-sorrel Cee’s Weekend FOTD Becky’s Squares-Burgeoning Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Location: Gardner Park Neighborhood; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. Have a fantastic weekend. I appreciate y’all very much.
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2024 Cell Pic Sunday — 05.05
May the Force Be with You. John’s Cell Pic Sunday:24.05.05 Photo Credit: ©️2024 Trisha L. Wilson for (my daughter) Camera: iPhone 14 Plus Location: Charlotte Douglas International Airport; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much. Becky’s Squares
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2024 Silent Sunday: 05.05
Silent Sunday Becky’s Square-Renewal God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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2024 Weekend Sky: 05.04
Clouds ☁️ Moving Forward ⛈️ Friday Skies … Moving Forward … Across the Vast Blue Skies … Moving Forward … Into Thunderstorms Thunderstorms All Weekend Long Our plans for the day are delayed … to move forward another day. Hammad’s Weekend Sky #127 Becky’s Squares-Moving Forward Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.…
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2024 CWWC: May — Squared Lancaster’s Way
Moving Forward at Lindsay Pettus Greenway The forward thinking of concerned citizens, volunteers, business partners, and in partnership with the Katawba Valley Land Trust; the ideas, planning, and reconstruction of certain areas into a Greenway of trails in Lancaster began to develop beginning in 2014. The Greenway includes numerous pedestrian connections with linkages to residential,…
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Door to the Vast Unknown
Thursday Doors, hosted by blogger and author, Dan Antion. Photo Credit: ©️2024 Fred Blackburn … All Rights Reserved. Location: Redwood National Park; Orick, Humboldt County, California God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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2024 CMMC: Close Up or Macro — Renewal
Renew may mean something different for each one of us whether it be being new again, being refreshed, or becoming strong once again. We all see and experience being renewed and refreshed every single year, every month, every day, and possibly every single minute. I’m combining Cee’s CMMC & Becky’s Square Challenges for this post.…
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2024 Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #17
Lily of the Valley is the birth flower for May. Traditionally, lily of the valley is known to symbolise humility, sweetness, the return of happiness and motherhood. Lily of the Valley may be May’s birth flower, but I much prefer roses 🌹 and carnations. Floral Friday Cee’s Flower of the Day God Bless. Thank you for…
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2024 Thursday Trios: 05.02 —
Petunias Thursday Trios Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge Becky’s #SquaresRenew Challenge-May Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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2024 CFFC: April — Locks, Keys, Knobs and Handles
Canal Locks Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge was is a weekly themed challenge where Cee asks everyone to search through their photos and post photos they feel meet the criteria of the week’s current theme. This week Cee is challenging everyone to post photos of Locks, Keys, Knobs, and Handles. My interpretation of this week’s challenge…
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2024 Last on the Card —April
From my iPhone 14 Pro Max: From my Canon EOS Rebel T3i: Brian’s Last on the Card – April 2024 God Bless. Thank you for sharing your Last on the Card photos. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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2024 Wordless Wednesday: 05.01
Spathiphyllum floribundum Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday Cee’s Flower of the Day Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L.Waters … All Rights Reserved. God Bless. Thanks for sharing your time and thoughts with me. Have a fabulous weekend. I appreciate y’all very much.
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Birds of the Carolinas #4
Red-Tailed Hawk TheRed-tailed Hawk is the most often-seen large hawk in North Carolina. It perches on telephone poles along highways and soars over open fields in search of food. [This Red-Tailed Hawk chose to perch on our electrical wires outside our back patio. The area outside our patio is a wide open grassy landscape area which…
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2024 WWE #219 —
Anne Springs Close Greenway Lakes, Pond, & Creek Lake Haigler is one of the most favourite areas for hiking and fishing at the Greenway. Love to see the many beautiful views and reflections around the Lake. This previously unnamed Pond has recently been given the name of Patterson Pond. It is located at the Children’s…
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Words for Thought #16
Think About It Tuesday Cee’s FOTD Photo Credit: (c) 2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens with Altura UV filter attachment. Location: The Heritage Garden; The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and…
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2024 Monday Window: 04.29
Throwback Windows and Doors Union Church (Baptist) was originally constituted in August of 1866 in the Mountain Union Baptist Association. Some of the charter members were some of my paternal ancestors on my Waters ancestral line. The Union Church has undergone several changes over the years and has existed for One Hundred Sixteen (116) years.…
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2024 Macro Monday: 04.29
Pluteus cervinus Macro Monday Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Ultra-Wide Camera Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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2024 Silent Sunday/Monday Portrait 04.28
Coleman in His New Shirt Silent Sunday Monday Portrait Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. God Bless. Enjoy your Sunday. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
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2024 Weekend Sky: 04.28
“After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.” William R. Alger Hammad’s Weekend Sky #126 Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA God Bless. Thank you for…
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2024 Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge — Twisted
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge-Twisted Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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St. Simons Island Lighthouse Museum — Unique Perspective
St. Simons Island, Georgia St. Simons Lighthouse is one of only five remaining Georgia lighthouse towers. The Lighthouse and keeper’s Dwelling were built in 1872. The original Lighthouse which this Lighthouse replaced was built in 1810 by James Gould of Massachusetts, the first lighthouse keeper. The original Lighthouse was destroyed by Confederate forces in 1861…