Author: Deb L Waters

Photo Credit : Deb L. Waters

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2024 Monday Portrait: 10.28

Greenway Cows

Monday Portrait

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Crandall Bowles Children’s Farm; Greenway Farm Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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2024 Monochrome Monday: 10.28

Squaring in Monochrome for C & B

Monochrome Monday

#Square flower

Becky’s Squares

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Stables Entrances; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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2024 Silent Cell Pic Sunday: 10.27

A View Thru the Trees

***Lake Haigler***
***Anne Springs Close Greenway***

Silent Sunday

John’s Cell Pic Sunday

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location:Lake Haigler; Lake Haigler Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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2024 Weekend FOTD Squared for C & B

Tithonia rotundifolia

**Mexican sunflower,**
the **red sunflower**

#Square flower

https://videopress.com/v/ZbdkZ7te?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true

Becky’s Squares

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Stables Entrances; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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Coleman’s Fascination with Watching “Flychines” Fly

Coleman has been fascinated with “Flychines” (better known as Airplanes) since he was about two (2) years old. He loves to watch “Flychines” fly through the skies. He enjoys watching them takeoff and land whenever possible. Yesterday he had a terrific view and ability to observe “Flychines” flying into Charlotte-Douglas International Airport while his mom was working at the airport.,

Airplanes ✈️ Flying into
Charlotte-Douglas International Airport

The video was created through Google Photos Highlight Video creator. In watching this video you’ll be able to see what Coleman was seeing and possibly understand his fascination with “Flychines.” Be sure to look closely, if you do you might just notice the windows on the Airplanes.

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Fascination

Debbie’s Six Word Saturday

Ludwig’s Monday Window

Monday Window

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Charlotte-Douglas International Airport; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

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Caring for Cee & Becky with Autumn Squares

I miss Cee when I do not see her posts and pray she is well. I love Squaring for Becky & appreciate all she & Cee do for our blogosphere.

Autumn in the Greenway

*Tithonia diversifolia: Mexican sunflower*

*Autumn* 🍂 *Leaves* 🍁
*Anne Springs Close Greenway*

Helianthus angustifolius L.
Aka Swamp Sunflower,
*Narrow-leaved Sunflower*

I am also linking this post to Judy’s Numbers Game #44-165 using Autumn 🍂 as my theme for the Challenge.

#Square flower

Becky’s Squares

Judy’s Numbers Game #44-165

Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2024 Week 42

Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2024-Week 42

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Lake Haigler and Stables Entrances; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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2024 Thursday Doors: 10.24 — Open Work Truck Door

*in primo piano – photos*
Dan Antion’s Thursday Doors photo

As Coleman and I were hiking toward Lake Haigler on Tuesday afternoon, we saw a work truck in the middle of one of the wider trails. We paused to speak with the men from the truck. They were there to repair the railings on a bridge damaged by Hurricane Helene. They stated that it took four days to cut and clear Seventy-Two trees which had fallen due to the strong winds and heavy rains from Hurricane Helene. The workers have a tremendous amount of work to still do to continue repairing the damage and destruction caused by Hurricane Helene here at the Anne Springs Close Greenway.

Dan’s Thursday Doors

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Lake Haigler Entrance (near Lake Haigler); Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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2024 Thursday Trios: 10.24 — Rustic Giddy Up Horses

These Rustic Wooden Horses were in a fenced off area near the Children’s Schroering Forest Playground at the Lake Haigler Entrance of the Anne Springs Close Greenway.

Carol’s Thursday Trios

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Schroering Forest Playground, Lake Haigler Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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Monochrome Which Way in the Greenway

Cee’s Which Way My Which Way

I’ve been missing Cee’s posts this week. I pray she is doing alright. This week I am again posting a Which Way My Way showing Which Ways in Monochrome. My grandson, Coleman and I had the privilege of hiking in our favorite Greenway on Tuesday. I only had my smartphone with me; I chose to take some of our adventures in monochrome and silvertone via my smartphone features. I hope you’ll enjoy them.

***Coleman Enjoying Lake Haigler***
***Anne Springs Close Greenway***
***Fort Mill, South Carolina***

I hope y’all will share your Which Ways with us. I am linking to Cee’s Which Way Challenge and Leanne’s Monochrome Madness.

Cee’s Which Way Challenge-10.24.2024

Which Way My Way

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere

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2024 Wordless Wednesday: 10.23 — Amazingly Beautiful View of Lake Haigler @ ASCG

*Coleman*
*Looking Out Upon*
*Lake Haigler*
*Anne Springs Close Greenway*
*Fort Mill, South Carolina*

Wordless Wednesday

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #242

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Lake Haigler; Lake Haigler Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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2024 FOTD: 10.22 — Symphyotrichum racemosum

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

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2024 Floral Macro Monday: 10.21

Calla Lily

Macro Monday

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Smell the Flowers. Enjoy the Outdoors. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Silent Sunday: 10.20 —

Heiliggeistkirche

Silent Sunday

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35mm

Location: Heiliggeistkirche; Church of the Holy Spirit; Heidelberg, Germany

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Early Evening Weekend Sky

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-October 2024

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Hurricane Storms Cause Erosion on Trails

Mason Bend Trail
Fort Mill, South Carolina

Hurricane Storm damage is heard all over the news and online media. What you hear about are the most heavily affected areas communities and immediate surrounding areas. What you do not hear about is how the storms affected other areas within the outlying areas of the Hurricane’s path. Trails in the Piedmont region of the Carolinas are southeast of the majority of heavily damaged areas, but still affected at a lesser impact level.

The Trails still need maintenance and repairs even though they are not as horrific as those in Western North Carolina. South Carolina Trails still endure erosion and other damages caused by the strong winds and heavy rains that occurred during Hurricane Helene’s passing through the area. The photo above pictures just one of the hiking trails that suffered severe weather damage erosion in South Carolina not far from where I live.

Debbie’s Six Word Saturday

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2024 Floral Friday: 10.18— Colouring Flowers #41

Dreamin’ of A

Beautiful Sunshiny

Day for a Hike

“Just living is not enough…
one must have sunshine,
freedom, and a little flower.”
~ Hans Christian Andersen

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful;
they are sunshine, food,
and medicine for the soul.”
~ Luther Burbank

Floral Friday

Aletta’s, from nowathome, Monochrome Madness

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Thursday Doors: 10.17 —Lancaster’s Springs House

Springs House

The Springs House in Lancaster, South Carolina started off small and then blossomed with the growth of the textile industry. Built between 1820 and 1830, the original home was much smaller than the grand manse it is today. The House was remodeled and expanded in the 1850’s after having a series of owners. In 1888, the property was purchased by a business called Heath, Springs & Company. Leroy Springs, a Textile Magnate, made the house his home.

Leroy Springs founded the Lancaster Textile Mill, one of the largest textile mills in the state and possibly the country. Springs also directed several other mills in the Upstate, and the resulting economic boom led Lancaster into an era of prosperity. [The Springs Mills in Lancaster stopped manufacturing in South Carolina after 120 years of manufacturing production, thus closing both the Grace and Close plants in 2007.]

In 1902, Springs assumed full ownership of the house and remodeled it to its current state in 1907. The house remained a residence until 1957 when the town purchased it and utilized it as its city hall until 2000. Today the Springs House serves as the Lancaster County Council for the Arts. The Springs House is listed on the National Register of Historic Houses.

Dan’s Thursday Doors

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2024 Monochrome Madness #19: 10.17 — Steps and Stairs

This week Aletta from nowathome blog is hosting this week’s Monochrome Madness challenge. She has chosen a theme of Steps and Stairs. Feel free to join in on the fun and post your monochrome photos of Steps and/or Stairs.

Here are my selections for Aletta’s Monochrome Madness Challenge.

*Schiele Museum Nature Trail*
*Gastonia, North Carolina*

*Crowders Mountain State Park*
*Kings Mountain, North Carolina*

*Lake Haigler Loop*
*Anne Springs Close Greenway*
*Fort Mill, South Carolina*

*Gibson House*
*Greenway Stables Entrance*
*Anne Springs Close Greenway*
*Fort Mill, South Carolina*

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

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2024 Thursday Trios: 10.17 — Signs

***Signs Nailed High in a Workshop***
***Lancaster, South Carolina***

Carol’s Thursday Trios

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Springdale; Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA

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2024 Wordless Wednesday: 10.16 — Almost

A Place of Quiet Reflection

“Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.”
~ Jean-Luc Godard

“It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.”
~ Claude Monet

Wordless Wednesday

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #241

Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max

Location: Lake at Garden of the Waxhaws Trail; Andrew Jackson State Park; Lancaster, South Carolina, USA

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2024 LAPC/ Judy’s Numbers Game

“The Numbers Game #43”. Today’s number is 164. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.

This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below. Instead of using the number #164 I am using a theme of Looking Back and linking it with the Lens-Artist Challenge.

For this week I decided to take a Look Back at a place we visited on our way back from Texas in January of 2019. On our way back to South Carolina my daughter and I stopped at the Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia.

BabyLand General Hospital located in the North Georgia Mountains. It is a Southern Style home filled with Cabbage Patch Kids which will capture the imagination of your entire family.

Cabbage Patch Kids came on the scene in the early 1980’s and were extremely popular with children (and their parents). They were so popular, they became a popular collectible. Cabbage Patch were all the rage for little girls and boys. My eldest son had a boy Cabbage Patch and my daughter had a girl Cabbage Patch doll. There were nine years apart, so when she was little she got to play with his Cabbage Patch as well as her own. For more information about the BabyLand General Hospital click here.

Below are my contributions to the Challenges:

These are some of the photos we took while visiting the BabyLand General Hospital of the many Cabbage Patch Kids and accessories.

Lens-Artist Photography Challenge #320-Looking Back

Judy’s Number Game #43-164

Camera: iPhone XR

Location: BabyLand General Hospital; Cleveland, Georgia, USA

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2024 SYD: October 15th

Clare from Clare’s Cosmos hosts the Share Your Desktop Challenge. She invites everyone to share what is on the desktop and/or our smartphones wallpapers and/or screensavers.

Here are my wallpapers and screensavers for October.

From My Laptop:

From my iPhone 14 Pro Max:

Clare’s Share Your Desktop

SYD

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2024 Words for Thought #39 — 10.15

Sing from your Heart

Give Thanks for Everything

*Ephesians 5:19-20 (NIV)*
*Japanese Garden*

Pray for all those affected by Hurricane Helene.

Think About It Tuesday

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2024 Monday Portrait: 10.14 —

Coleman’s Horse Affection

Monday Portrait

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250 mm lens

Location: Greenway Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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2024 Monday Window: 10.14

Hotel • Restaurant •

Gasthof • Burgfreiheit

Heidelberg, Germany

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35 mm

Location: Gasthof • Burgfreiheit; Heidelberg, Germany

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2024 Macro Monday: 10.14 — Red Leaf

Macro Monday

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300 mm lens.

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2024 Silent Cell Pic Sunday: 10.13 —

In The Beginning God …

*Discovery Center Creation Museum*
*Science • History • The Arts*

Silent Sunday

John’s Cell Pic Sunday

Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max

Location: Discovery Center Creation Museum; Abilene, Texas, USA

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2024 Weekend FOTD: 10.12/.13

Perennial Garden

Andrew Jackson State Park

Cee’s Weekend FOTD

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Smell the Flowers. See the Beauty in Simplicity. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

Our Which Way Relaxing Hike — AJSP

This week Cee is allowing us to post any type of road, path, step, bridge or sign. I have chosen to post some paths, steps, dirt trails, and wooden paths and bridges along the Lake Nature Trail at Andrew Jackson State Park. I took these photos when was camping there the summer after my mom passed. It was a relaxing, peaceful, meditative experience of communing with nature.

Cee’s Which Way Challenge-10.10.2024

Debbie’s Six Word Saturday

In Loving Memory of.pptx Download

Camera: Apple iPhone XR and iPhone 11 Pro Max

Location: Nature Trail; Andrew Jackson State Park; Lancaster, South Carolina, USA

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Remembering …

Doyce Eileen (Watson) Waters

October 11, 1931 — January 18, 2019

Five years ago I received an expected yet saddening phone call from my brother. I was working when I received the call that my mother had passed.

My mom and I were not close after I became an adult and was on my own. I was felt she favored my brother and his family. I harbored ill feelings for the longest time towards my mother. I guess you could say I was jealous of the close relationship I felt she had with my brother and his family. I felt she spent much more time with his family and only gave me and my family a few minutes of her time. To me it seemed she cared more about them and even my dad’s sister’s family more than she cared about me.

Regardless of how I felt about her as an adult, she was still my mother. She is here any longer, I can’t let her know how I felt. I was never open with her about my thoughts and feelings. Sometimes I wish I had felt like I could have been open with her and closer. You can never get back the time lost with loved ones. Regrets can never be taken back once loved ones are no longer with us. I still think about my mom, especially on her birthday.

CHERISH EVERY MOMENT AND EVERY PERSON IN YOUR LIFE, BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN IT WILL BE THE LAST TIME YOU SEE SOMEONE.

quoteslife101.net

Cherish Your Loved Ones

Cherish your family each and every day Life is unbelievably unpredictable Enjoy the people in your life, Invest in forgiveness Stop wasting precious time And be thankful for what you have Cherish your loved ones. You never know when God will call them home.

— Rosie Bourget

Ragtag Daily Prompt—TIME

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2024 Floral Friday: 10.11— Colouring Flowers #40

Heart Full of Love

In Memory of My Mom

10/11/1931 — 01/18/2019

“A heart full of love and compassion is the main source of inner strength, willpower, happiness, and mental tranquility”
~ Dalai Lama

A wee bit of heaven drifted down from above, a handful of happiness, a heart full of love.
Helen Steiner Rice

Floral Friday

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2024 CMMC: October Fern Green Color

Green in the Garden

Green by the Lake

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge

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2024 Thursday Door & Monday Window #15

This is my Fifteenth & Final installment of my combination of Thursday Doors & Monday Window featuring Antique Automobiles.

My dad loved cars shows, history, and anything to do with FORD. He started working for a FORD dealership while in high school in Great Falls, South Carolina. He worked there until he joined the United States Navy in 1948. After leaving the Navy, he again went to work for a FORD dealership. This time he worked of Pearson Ford in San Diego, California and continued working for FORD until he retired.

This week I’ll be showing three Antique Automobiles from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The Haynes Automobile Company, better known as Haynes, was an American automotive manufacturer that was established in 1905. The company produced a range of cars that included open and closed top offerings such as the Light Six and Light Twelve. Haynes was operational until 1924, when the company declared bankruptcy, before being entirely dissolved in 1925.

The Oakland Motor Car Company located out of Pontiac, Michigan was an American automobile manufacturer and a division of General Motors. The company was named for Oakland County, Michigan where it was based.The first Oakland used a vertical two-cylinder engine that rotated counterclockwise. The Oakland’s were first produced in 1908 with a production of 278 vehicles. General Motors acquired the rights to the Oakland just one year later in 1909. GM continued production of the Oakland automobiles until 1931.

The American Locomotive Company (ALCO) was found in 1901. The company was successful in manufacturing locomotives which included massive steam trains that traversed America. Having succeeded in producing locomotives, the company began to build automobiles in 1905. They boasted that their vehicles were so well built that each one took 19 months to complete. In 1909 and 1910, ALCO won the Vanderbilt Cup, and it competed in the inaugural Indianapolis 500 in 1911.

This car is one of 12 surviving Alcos and one of still fewer propelled by a 487 cubic-inch four-cylinder engine with dual-chain drive to the rear wheels. It resided at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum from 1961 through 2011, when it was purchased by its current owner.

Dan’s Thursday Doors

Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2024-Week 40

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge- Fairly modern homes and apartments

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35 mm

Location: Indianapolis Motor Speedway; Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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2024 CFFC: October Week 2 — Fairly modern homes and apartments

Fairly modern is relative to one’s own personal experience or opinion of what they consider modern. Modern can be often used as referring to the 19th century. It could also refer to a contemporary and up-to-date home having the latest technological innovations. A modern home exudes a lived-in warmth; using natural materials such as wood, leather and/or stone in functional, minimalist designs and shapes.

Having said all that, bear in mind these are my personal thoughts on what I consider a modern home or apartment to be. They are also all places I have regarded as home at one time or another.

Apartment Complex in
Gastonia, North Carolina

A tent home can be a modern home, especially if it your choice to live in whether for a weekend, a week, or even months as I have done from time to time.

*Double-wide Manufactured Home*
*Lancaster, South Carolina*

Home in Allied Gardens
San Diego, California

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Monochrome in the Garden Floral

Here are my entries for Leanne’s Monochrome Madness Challenge of showing Flowers in the Garden in monochrome.

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness-Flowers out in the garden

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2024 FOTD: 10.09 — Helianthus agrestis

Camera: iPhone 11 Pro Max

Location: Lake Haigler Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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2024 Sunday Stills: Plant a #Tree — Watch the #Leaves Change

Plant a Tree

Let it Grow

Into the Trees

We Love to Go

“Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish.”
― Munia Khan

“When one plants a tree they plant themselves. Every root is an anchor, over which one rests with grateful interests, and becomes sufficiently calm to feel the joy of living.”
— John Muir

I feel right at home when I am walking through the forest of trees whether I am alone or out hiking with my grandson. Being in the woods has a calming effect on me. It is relaxing and uplifting at the same time; a time of reflection and communing with God, the Creator of all things on Earth and in Heaven. The Autumn hues of the leaves are beautiful and mesmerizing. Autumn is a great time for observing the changes in nature. I love to be out in the forest amongst the trees all year round. It is so much better than being cooped up in doors. Enjoy the views of the trees and nature I and my grandson love to roam and wander through on a regular period.

“In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike.”
— Paolo Coelho

“Together we can preserve the forest, securing this immense treasure for the future of all these our children.”
— Chico Mendes

Terri’s Sunday Stills-Leaves and Trees

All Quotes from One Tree Planted.

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Have a walk amongst the Trees. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 The Numbers Game #42” — #163

To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.

This week’s number is 163. My 163 photos happen to come from a few trips I have taken and a few lakes I’ve visited over the years.

From our trip along the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Blue Ridge Mountains:

From my trip to Cozumel, Mexico:

From New Braunfels, Texas:

*The New Braunfels Railroad Museum*
*New Braunfels, Texas*

From Lakes we enjoy visiting:

Judy’s Numbers Game 42 – 163

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere

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2024 Daily Prompts: 10.06 — Favourite Pastime

What is your favorite hobby or pastime?

I would have to say my favourite hobby/pastime is Reading. Lately I’ve been reading three books 📚 at once. I read Amish Fiction, Inspirational Fiction, Romance Fiction, and Mysteries. I am currently reading an Amish mystery, and two other mystery novels. I am reading one in my Kindle app, one in my iBooks, and one in my Glose app. My current reading streak is 280 days in a row, 52 weeks in a row. I read each novel for a minimum of 25-30 minutes per day.

Reading helps me to relax and unwind from any stress or anxiety in my day. My other favourite pastime is hiking, but that is a story/post for another day. Reading is something I can do while my grandson watches his favourite show or plays with his toys. Sometimes he interrupts my reading, but that is alright; I will always make time for whatever he needs.

Daily prompt

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2024 Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Mainly Orange — Autumn Orange +

— Autumn Orange

Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Mainly Orange

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2024 Words for Thought #38 — 10.08

Create – Renew – Restore

Pray for all those affected by Hurricane Helene.

Think About It Tuesday

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2024 Monday Portrait: 10.07 — Baby Donkey

Monday Portrait

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Close Up of a Lovely Pink Rose

Macro Monday

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Cracker Barrel; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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Firetrucks Gather for Fire Safety Presentation

Three Red Firetrucks +

Carol’s Thursday Trios