Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography
This blog is for my insights on life, the Bible, hiking adventures with my grandson and whatever is important to me
My CK and CH seen while Coleman and I walked around the neighbourhood.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-April Alphabet_a CK or CH in a word
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: New Hope Road; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge-Things that are Rough
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens; 2) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens; 3) iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: 1-2) Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina; 3) Patio; Gastonia, North Carolina
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1. Regardless of whether you had them or not, can you remember three popular toys from when you were a child?
Three popular toys from my childhood were:
Other popular toys from my childhood were:
2. Did you ever want something specific as a child, but never had it?
I had bicycles growing up, but the type I really wanted was a Schwinn Sting-Ray. No other bicycle compared to the Sting-Ray even though other companies like Huffy tried to compete and were more affordable.
3. Do you still have any toys or games from your childhood?
The only toy I still have is Zippy, the Howdy Doody Monkey.
4. I think I’ve asked this before, but what was your favourite toy as a child?
I am not sure if I had a favourite toy as a child. Growing up I had Barbie dolls, loved playing marbles, baseball, freeze tag, riding my homemade skateboard ( steel roller skate wheels attached to a piece of wood), card and board games. This being said I do not recall favouring one particular toy over any other toys.
Gratitude:
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Turtles
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Trisha L. Wilson (my daughter) … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Plus
Location: Glynco, Glenn County, Georgia, USA
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Flowing Downstream
Here is my compilation for this week’s Weekly Prompt’s Weekend Challenge. I’m also applying it to Jez’s Water Water Everywhere Challenge.
These are just a few of the ways we see water flowing as we walk through the neighbourhood or as we hike among the trees in and around the Carolinas.
Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Flow
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #218
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1-3) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 4) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens.
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Canopy of Trees
Cosmic Photo Challenge: In the Canopy
Photo Credit: ©1) 2024 Trisha L. Wilson; 2-5) ©️2024 Deb L. Waters; 6) ©️2022) Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1) iPhone 14 Plus; 2-3&5) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 4) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.
Locations vary from North and South Carolina to Georgia.
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Dietes grandiflora
Photo Credit:©️2024 Sandy Burnett
Location: Fernandina Beach, FL
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Photo Credit: (c) 2024 Trisha L. Wilson (my daughter) … All Rights Reserved.
Location: Atlantic Ocean; St. Simons Island Lighthouse & Museum; St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA
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Abstracts
Here’s showing y’all my contributions to Ritva’s Abstract challenge for this week’s Lens-Artist Photography Challenge.
Lens-Artist Challenge #296-Abstracts
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St. Simons Island Lighthouse
Johns Cellpic Sunday
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Trisha L. Wilson (my daughter)… All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Plus
Location: St. Simons Island Lighthouse Museum; St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA
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Bleating to Greet Y’all
Wait a Sec … I’ll Come Closer.
Can Y’all See Me Now?
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens and Altura CPL filter attachment.
Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Rhododendron japonicum
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens with Altura UV filter attachment.
Location: The Nature Trail; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Can You Spot the Hidden Object?
Hammad’s Weekend Sky #125 – 2024 April 20
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max – Telephoto Camera
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Cee’s Weekend Flower of the Day
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.
Location: The Heritage Garden; The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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St. Joseph Catholic Church
Photo Credit:©️2024 Loran Watson (my cousin).
Location: Mishawaka, Indiana
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Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300 mm lens.
Settings: f5.6 • 1/3 • 75mm • ISO3200
Location: Dinosaur Exhibits; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Thursday Doors, hosted by blogger and author, Dan Antion.
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S75-300mm lens with Altura CPL filter attachment.
Location: The Rooftop Garden; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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We managed to have a beautiful clear day yesterday (almost), so Coleman and I rode the bus to the Y for some fresh air and a bit of hiking.
All aboard, we’re on our way.
Before we begin our hike, it’s Coleman swing time. If we waited till later the school kids would have taken over and he couldn’t have been able to play.
Through the woods along the bank of the lake we traverse. Across the dam and deeper into the woods. Upward, downward, and around and around we go.
Coleman spots the Fitness Challenge area off the Yellow Trail and climbs aboard for some fun before continuing our hike and back up to the Y.
Tired from our hike we’re gonna Leaf it all behind, and venture to the bus stop and head home.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-April Latte Color
Cee’s Which Way Challenge-Any Way
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: iPhone 14 Pro Max and Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens with Altura UV & NP filter and also Altura Wide-Angle Fisheye attachments.
Location: Gaston County Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-headed Woodpeckers have an entirely red head, and their belly is white and unstreaked. It is a mid-sized woodpecker found in temperate North America. Its breeding habitat is open across southern Canada and the east-central United States. One should not confuse the red-headed woodpecker with the red-bellied woodpecker. Even though they are similar in size, the red-bellied woodpecker is named for the pale reddish blush of its lower belly and has a distinct patterned black and white back whereas the red-headed woodpecker has the solid black back and a vibrant orange-red crown and nape. These Red-headed woodpeckers were spotted at the Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Maria De Jesus … All Rights Reserved.
Location: Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
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We first look for everyday objects in the kitchen cabinets, …
then outside of the cabinets …
Lastly, we look around the house ( or an old historic home to see what interesting objects we can find.
Leanne’s Monochrome Madness #6 – Everyday Objects
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge-Things that are Wet
Photo Credit:©️2024 Trisha L. Wilson … All Rights Reserved (permission granted by my daughter.)
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro
Location: Glynn County, Georgia, USA
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Amazingly Wonderful Beautiful View of Robinwood Lake
Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens with Altura UV and NP Filter attachments plus Altura Photo 58MM 0.35x Fisheye Canon Wide Angle Lens (w/Macro Portion).
Location: Robinwood Lake; Robinwood Lake Dam; Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Rubus trivialis
These are small white Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
They are also found all over South Carolina and the Southeastern part of the United States.
The Southern Dewberry, as they are commonly known, is a species of flowering plant in the rose family (Rosaceae).
Whatsoever Is Lovely Challenge-2024 Week 15
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Purple I have, not so much in the way of Diamonds, Crystals, or Quartz. Therefore, I showing y’all some of my favourite purples.
Now for Quartz, (not what you had in mind, I bet.)
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2022-2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1 & 3) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 2 & 4) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm and Canon EF 75-300mm lenses; 5) iPhone 13 Pro.
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U. S. Naval Hospital and Hospital Corps School
San Diego, California
July 4th 1950
My father, Nornal Hule Waters (often spelled Norman in military paperwork.) joined the U. S. Navy on September 24, 1948. He enlisted in South Carolina and had his training in San Diego, California. He attended the U.S. Naval Hospital Corps School and is listed as graduating from the School on July 4, 1950. These photos were scanned from his graduation ceremony program. [My dad saved everything.]
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Whoever said ROCKS needed to be shared for What Rocks Your World? Hey there everyone, I gotta to be one that’s different … willing to Rock the boat (per se.)
Yes, I could do a whole post about Rocks and places of Rocks, however, why should I ? Especially when What Rocks My World isn’t a What but a Who.
Lens-Artist Photography Challenge (LAPC) #295 – Rock Your World
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Backyard Patio; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Photo Credit: (c) 2024 Ruth Geilengeldt Anderson …All Rights Reserved.
Location: Carlsbad Flower Fields; Carlsbad, California
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Clare @ Clare’s Cosmos invites us each month to share our desktops on the 15th of each month. Can you believe it the month of April is half over already? Here it is time once again to join Share Your Desktop. I like to share my wallpaper for my iPhone as well as for my Laptop. For my iPhone I use different wallpaper’s for the different focuses I use; personal, hiking, and reading.
From my iPhone:
Personal Focus
Hiking Focus
Reading Focus
From my Laptop:
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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Colo 12.22.1956 – 01.17.2017
A Western Lowland Gorilla
Colo was born in captivity at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium and lived at the Zoo for her entire life. At the time of her death in 2017, she was the oldest known gorilla in the world living in captivity. She lived to the age of 60 years and 26 days.
She was named Colo after the Columbus Zoo. She was rejected at birth by her mother and was hand-raised by Zookeepers.
Interesting Fact:
Colo was a mother to three, a grandmother to 16, a great-grandmother to 12, and a great-great-grandmother to three.
My daughter and I visited Colo in April of 2012 when we visited cousins and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio during Easter vacation.
Leannes Monochrome Madness
Photo Credit:©️2012 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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There are times when we look up at the sky above, the clouds seem to appear into objects we are familiar with such as birds, or airplanes, or elephants, angels or other objects. Sometimes we see nothing in them other than them being : cirrus, cumulus, and stratus, or nimbus. What do you see when you look at clouds?
Hammad’s Weekend Sky– 2024 April 14
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max – Telephoto Camera
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Good Day Everyone! I’m joining in on Fandango’s One Word Challenge today with Gem. Click Gem to join in and post to FOWC.
Fandango’s One Word Challenge-Gem
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One Word Sunday-14 April Overhead
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One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge – April 2024
Natalie’s Photographing Public Art Challenge
Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2024-Week 15
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Ragtag Daily Prompt Saturday-Trumpet
Photo Credit:©️2012 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Location: Columbus Zoo & Aquarium; Powell, Ohio
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This week, I’m asking you to share your day, April 1st, and what it entails.
Q1. Will you be playing tricks on someone seeing as it’s also April Fool’s Day?
April 1st this year was not only April Fool’s Day, but also Easter Monday. My daughter had to work and the day was just like any other day with me taking care of my four year old grandson, Coleman.
I did not play any tricks on anyone and was also not the recipient of any April Fool’s Day tricks.
Were you ever a victim of an April Fool’s prank?
I do not recall ever being the victim of any practical jokes or pranks on previous April Fool’s Days. Then again I could have been in my youth and just not able to bring any occurrences to memory.
Q2. Will it be a normal working day for you?
The day was a normal “working” day for my household. I watched over and took care of my grandson’s needs as I would any other normal day.
Q3. If you have children, are they of school age on Easter break, or toddlers?
My children are grown working adults and my grandson is four and not in school yet.
Gratitude:
“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
— John F. Kennedy
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Before we head out on the road I suggest we stop and fill up the car with some good old fashioned gasoline ⛽️. I doubt you’ll find these prices nowadays though.
I Spy Something Red
Now that we’ve filled up the car 🚘 and made sure we have everything we need, let’s get going on our adventure.
Where are we going you might ask? It doesn’t really matter as long as we have a bit of fun along the way.
How about we pull over for a while and go on a hike. These signs might direct us on our way.
Oh Look, Stairs. Shall we go down them? What might we see when we reach the bottom? Who knows, but let’s go on down and discover what we can find.
Wasn’t that fun? Did you enjoy our little game of I Spy? I know Coleman and I had a great time together on our adventures.
Cee’s Which Way Challenge is fun to join and exciting to see everyone’s take on the challenges. No two people have the exact same perspective and I look forward to seeing y’all’s perspectives. Click Here to link to Cee’s blog.
God Bless. Thank you for traveling with us. I truly hope you enjoyed the adventure. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
My entries for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge are mostly from South Carolina from my archives. Feel free to join in and post your own Cafe Latte color photos and link them to Cee.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Cafe Latte Color
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Photos taken between 2017-2019 except eclipse is from 2024.
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“March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers”
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge:Things that are Wet
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Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Good Day everyone! Welcome to my blog. The following are my entries for this week’s Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge. The challenge is asking for photos depicting the colour BLACK.
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge-Black
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens and Altura CPL filter attachment.
Location: Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA.
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Lake Haigler Loop
View of
Lake Haigler
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #216
Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens with Altura CPL filter attachment.
Location: Lake Haigler; Lake Haigler Loop; Lake Haigler Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA.
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Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography 