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
Dan’s Thursday Doors
Photo Credit:©️ Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 10-18mm lens
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 2) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 55-250mm lens; 3) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens.
Location: Holiday at The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Here are this week’s questions:
1. Do you enjoy or get frustrated with the run up to the festive holidays?
The older I get the holiday festivities are not important. I do not do a lot of extensive shopping or engage in any festivities anymore. My family no longer congregates together for holidays. I wish it was different, but it’s not, so no point in getting frustrated over it.
2. Do you like family gatherings on a regular basis?
When I was growing up family gatherings happened often with extended family, however, that seemed to end after my maternal grandfather passed. Nowadays, each part of the family unit tends to do their own thing and are not interested in gathering for large family get togethers. I miss them, but I don’t stress over them.
3. What is your favourite family memory?
I’m not sure I have a favorite family memory. I treasure the memories I spent with my dad, sharing a common interest in stamp collecting and photography. We took a class through adult education on the local high school in photography where we learned how to develop 35mm film. The time we spent together was what was memorable.
4. Do you prefer to be a host or visitor for a special occasions?
I would have to select visitor. I have never had a suitable place to host a special occasion.
Gratitude :
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White can be found all around us if we take the time to look around, especially so during winter.
First, let’s have a look at White in the museum.
Now, for a look around The Farm.
I’m sure y’all will be displaying many fascinating White photos which I’ll be looking forward to observing.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge-White
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️ 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 10-18mm lens; 2) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 3) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 55-250 mm lens; 4-5) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens
Location: Holiday at The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday
Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Sharon, South Carolina, USA
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List your top 5 grocery store items.
These are the top five items that we use most frequently. The Lactose Free milk for my grandson. He goes through about a gallon and a half per week. My preference and my grandson’s is the Oatnut bread. He does not care for other types of bread, The Bisquick I use to make Coleman homemade waffles for breakfast a couple Tonya week. We also use an egg for the waffles and for homemade French toast. My grandson won’t eat eggs any other way. Most of our suppers are made with ground turkey or fresh chicken.
What are your top 5 grocery store items? Looking forward to seeing what’s on y’all’s lists.
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Here are this week’s questions
1. What is your favourite song or artist beginning with the letter D?
My favourite song beginning with the letter D would be “Daddy Sang Bass” by Johnny Cash and my favourite artist beginning with the letter D would be Dolly Parton for female artist and Neil Diamond for male artist.
2. When was the last time you visited a church?
The last time I stepped foot into a physical location of a church would be in 2020 before everything was shut down due to Covid-19.
3. If you celebrate Christmas, when do you put your decorations up? If not, do you decorate your home for other traditional occasions?
I celebrate Christmas, but have not done any decorating for the holiday since my mom passed in 2019. I’ve been in limbo since then living in various locations and it just hasn’t been feasible.
4. Do you like a glass of wine with your main meal of the day?
I have never cared much for wine and gave up drinking any kind of alcohol many years ago.
Gratitude:
Share Your World-Week of 12.11.23
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Holiday at The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Here are this week’s questions:
1. What is your idea of a good holiday? Seeing the sights, lazing on a beach, hitting the night spots, getting away from it all……………….
My idea of a good holiday is spending it with those I love and care about. Now if you want to talk about seeing sights or petite on a beach, to me, that would be a vacation not a holiday.
2. You are offered tickets to a show. Which would you prefer, Opera, Play, Cinema, Entertainment, Ice Gala, something else?
If offered tickets to a show I would go see any of those choices, however, my favorite would be to attend a local play.
3. Have you ever won a sports trophy (or something similar for a particular achievement)?
No, I have never won a sports trophy or any other kind of a similar award.
4. What is your dream car (fact or fictional)?
My dream car would not really be a car ( in my opinion), but it would be a camper van. I long to own one and travel across America visiting every one of the forty-eight connected states. I would travel to see National Parks and monuments as well as visit family and friends in the various cities and states while traveling to my heart’s content.
Gratitude:
Share Your World-Week of 11.20
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Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Dinosaur 🦕 Exhibits; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Construction on the new school and windows continues. Progress is being made, however, probably will not be completed until Spring of 2024.
This new school addition is located to the right of The Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia, North Carolina.
Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Near the Museum; Gastonia, North Carolina , USA
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Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max; Google Video Creation
Location: Holiday at The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Happy Holidays. Happy Kwanzaa. Feliz las Posadas. Merry Christmas to one and all!
Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Stoneybrook Avenue; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Dan’s Thursday Doors
Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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On my iPhone:
I actually have a different wallpaper for three different focus pages:
On my Laptop:
Clare’s Share Your Desktop-December 2023
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved
Cameras: iPhone 14 Pro Max and Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm Lens.
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. Looking forward to seeing y’all’s desktops. I appreciate y’all.
Not sure if wintery frigid cold days count or not, however, I couldn’t resist adding a couple anyway-
Cee’s Which Way Challenge-Which ways on a cloudy or stormy day
Photo Credit: ©️2017-2022 Deb L. Waters
Cameras: Apple iPhone 7 Plus and Apple iPhone 13 Pro
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Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300mm lens
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved
Cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Teal Color
Natalie’s Photographing Public Art Challenge
Photo Credit:©️2022 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 13 Pro
Location: Various near the Catawba River; Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
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Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday
Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
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Whatsoever Is Lovely – Week 50
Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday-Almost
Photo Credit: (c) Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #202
Photo Credit: (c)2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1-2) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 3-4) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 55-250mm lens.
Location: Lake Haigler; Lake Haigler Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
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For the past two weeks (since Thanksgiving) I haven’t been able to get out and capture any scenery around me. Coleman and I have been sick with a bacterial infection consisting of chest congestion and a really bad cough. Over the counter medicine was not working for him so we finally took him to the doctor who prescribed an antibiotic. Hopefully all will be better soon.
We’ve been having issues in our townhome with pests and so today we bombed our place. (The pest controls the complex uses does not work!) So, we took it upon ourselves to try to remedy the problem. With bombing the place, we needed to get out of the place for a few hours, therefore we decided to go for a drive.
Driving around down in the Clover area, I noticed this table and seating outside the Clover Post Office and located near the drop off area. I have never seen seating outside of a post office before. My daughter obliged me to stop the vehicle a moment so I could snap a photo of the unusual (to me anyway) seating at the post office.
XingfuMama’s Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge: Week 50
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Clover, South Carolina, USA
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Former Southern Industries Mill in Clover, SC was a Yarn Spinning Mill that closed in 2007. This was originally built in 1923 (per tax records) as part of the Hampton Spinning Mill (until 1945), then American Thread Company until 1985.
In 1945, it was home to the American Thread Company.
This abandoned mill was one of the last textile mills in South Carolina to fall, following a long line of closures throughout the second half of the twentieth century as competition from foreign countries like China and India crippled an industry that once dominated South Carolina’s Upstate. Called Southern Industries of Clover, its doors closed in 2007.
Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Clover, South Carolina, USA
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Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson was my fourth cousin, but more importantly than that he was an American guitarist, songwriter, and singer of bluegrass, folk, and gospel music. He won the Grammy Awards seven times as well as earning the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Doc Watson was born in Deep Gap, North Carolina on March 3, 1923, and passed from this life into the next on May 29, 2012, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina at the age of 89. Doc was blind from infancy. He grew up on a farm and was encouraged at an early age, by his father, to learn to play the guitar, banjo, and harmonica. He often picked out tunes he heard on the radio or on old records. He introduced a flat-picking style which elevated the acoustic guitar from a rhythmically strummed background instrument to a leading role in bluegrass, country, folk, and rock music.
Doc’s Appalachian culture and roots enabled him to be presented to become the region’s unofficial ambassador to the world stage. He made appearances all across the country and recorded his first solo album in 1964. Je also recorded an album with his son, Merle in 1965. In 1973, Arthel “Doc” Watson received his first honorary doctorate. He continued to perform his musical talents until 2012, when he made his final appearance at MerleFest. MerleFest was started in 2009 in honor of Doc’s son Merle who passed on in 1985.
Doc Watson recorded over 40 albums; been awarded eight Grammys; held honorary doctorates from University of North Carolina Asheville and Berklee College of Music as well as Appalachian State University at the time of his death. He also received the North Carolina Award, the North Carolina Folk Heritage Award, a National Heritage Fellowship, and the National Medal of the Arts; been inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor; and was honored with a life-size statue on King Street in Boone, North Carolina.
Monochrome Monday
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Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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XingfuMamas Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge: Week 49
Photo Credit: ©️2021 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 11 Pro Max
Location: North Carolina Transportation Museum; Spencer, North Carolina, USA
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For this challenge I decided to go with a holiday/Christmassy take on Unique. A different perspective on Christmas trees and a snowman for the winter season.
Len-Artists Photo Challenge #278: Unique
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Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-December Close Up or Macro
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Narcissus tazetta ( bunched-flowered daffodil) is a perennial ornamental plant that grows from a bulb.
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
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The day Pearl Harbor, a U. S. Naval Base in Hawaii was attacked in a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service. This attack devastated Pearl Harbor enormously. The United States lost 2,403 Americans, and 1,178 others were seriously wounded. This strike also produced significant naval and military asset losses some of which included battleships and aircraft. The attack on Pearl Harbor was the major factor that impelled the United States to enter World War II.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that this day would live in ‘infamy.’ This day also noted a significant shift in the global conflict and was a pivotal moment in the History of the United States of America.
Every year on December 7, Pearl Harbor Survivors, veterans, and visitors from all around the world unite together to honour and remember those 2,403 service members and civilians who were killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
It was on August 23, 1994 that the United States Congress designated December 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Each year events are held in remembrance at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, concluding with a commemoration ceremony on December 7.
This year marks the 82nd Commemoration of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Events were held at the USS Utah, USS Oklahoma, USS Arizona (the Pearl Harbor National Memorial) as well as many other locations around the country.
Many here as well as myself were not alive yet when this attack took place, however its significance still impacts people tremendously.
As a personal note, a friend I knew in the church I grew up in was a Pearl Harbor Survivor. His name is Stuart Hedley. He was my church’s Sunday School Superintendent, an usher, a much loved father, friend, business man, and a much honoured U.S. Navy Veteran having served during World War II, Korean War, and a Pearl Harbor Survivor. He was an active member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and participated in many Veteran ceremonies including Pearl Harbor National Remembrance Day ceremonies. He amongst the many survivors and those who lost their lives that day will forever be remembered in infamy.
For more information on Stuart Hedley and is remembrance of Pearl Harbor click here.
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Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: 1-3) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens along with Altura (for Canon) Macro Wide-Angle Fish-Eye attachment; 4) iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
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Dan’s Thursday Doors
Photo Credit: ©️2018 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone X
Location: Andrew Jackson State Park; Lancaster, South Carolina, USA
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My entry for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is a variety of tools seen or used throughout time.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge-Any Type of Tool
Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters
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Here are this week’s questions:
1. Would you rather bake or buy a cake?
I would rather bake a cake, but however, with a lactose intolerant family member we usually do not bake or eat cake. I have not found a lactose free icing recipe I really like and therefore we do not celebrate special occasions with cake. We do occasionally eat lactose free ice cream for special days.
2. Do you have your main meal during the day or in the evening?
If I lived alone, I would have main meal in the middle of the day, but since I don’t, we have it in the evening.
3. Do you have a sweet tooth or prefer Savoury food?
I prefer savory foods nowadays. When I was younger, I enjoyed sweet foods, but not anymore.
4. What is one food you absolutely detest?
Pickles, if I had to pick just one. I do not care for anything salty or vinegary.
Gratitude:
God Bless. Thank you for visiting in my world. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.
Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S75-300mm lens
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens with Altura for Canon Macro Wide-Angle Fisheye lens attachment.
Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Here are this week’s questions:
1. Do you watch and enjoy reality TV shows?
No, I do not watch or enjoy reality TV shows. Years ago, I would watch American Idol, but lost interest over the years.
2. If you had the power, where would you send anyone you didn’t like?
Timbuktu. A place often referred to in the heat of the moment when one wants to be far away from someone regardless of whether there is a dislike of the person or just infuriated with them currently. Most times I would not want to send someone away permanently, maybe I might distance myself for a time, but would be better to just show kindness and ask the Lord to help you to understand and show love towards others.
3. Do you enjoy your own company and what do you do with your ‘Me Time’?
I do enjoy my own company and I think I always have. When I have “me time,” which is rare lately, I read and work on blog posts. I used to go on walks or hikes by myself, however, that is currently impossible as am the primary caretaker of my grandson. The only “me time” I get is when I can finally get him to sleep for the night which means I am awake very late into the early morning doing what I love to do, read and write.
4. If you wanted to change anything about your partner/pet/family what would it be?
If I could change anything about my family, I would change some of their habits like vaping, but I know I cannot do that, that can of habitual behavior change had to come from within themselves. I would instead change, if it were possible, our current living environment. I would live in a completely different and separate dwelling and possibly different environment than now. I would prefer, not financially possible currently, to live in a camper van and travel continuously across America visiting relatives and seeing parts of this vast great country I have never seen before.
Gratitude:
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time in a portion of my world and for sharing your thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Photo Credit: ©️2021 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens
Location: Fort Mill Dam; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
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Photo Credit: (c) 2020 Deb L. Waters … All rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max
Location: New Braunfels, Texas
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Photo Credit:©️2010 Deb L. Waters
Location: Lancaster, South Carolina, USA
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Photo Credit: ©️2022 Deb L. Waters
Camera: Apple iPhone 13 Pro
Location: Westminster Park; Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
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Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography 