Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters…All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
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2023 Weekend Sky: October 20
Author: Deb L Waters
I am an avid reader. I read mostly Amish fiction but also read other novels. I enjoy romance, mystery, and Christian devotionals. I enjoy hiking in the outdoors, especially in Greenways and State or National Parks. I love my grandson. He is my favorite subject, so I'll post about him and his antics.
Floral Friday: Potted Flowers
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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FOTD: 2023 October 20_Contrasting Leaves
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Lens Artists Photo Challenge #271: Contrasts
Photo Credit: (c) Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Playscape; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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2023 CWWC: Any which way with Autumn or Spring Colors
A Drive Along the Blue Ridge Parkway
on the Blue Ridge Parkway
in North Carolina
After a scenic drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway, it is nice to take a stroll or a crawl down the Scarecrow Pathway in Millstone Park located in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Bonus for October: Any Halloween themed Which Way Photo:
Cee’s Which Way Challenge: Any which way with Autumn or Spring Colors
Denzil’s Nature Photography Challenge-Autumn Colours – Part 2
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2023 NPC #31: Autumn Colours
A View Around The Pond
Includes Water, Blue, Green, Yellow, Trail, Landscape, Space.
Photos 1-9 are all of the Pond at The Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia, North Carolina. Photo 10 is of the North Carolina Mountains displaying both Autumn 🍂 Colours & Winter ❄️ 🥶 ❄️Snow.
Denzil’s Nature Photography Challenge-Autumn Colours
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #196
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge -Pick a Topic From My Photo
Dawn’s Festival of Leaves challenge
Debbie’s One Word Sunday Challenge
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in May of 2010.
To view more of my insights and or photography go to: Gfpacificbee’s Insights & Photography
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2023 Thursday Trios: October 19 _At the Museum
Little Explorers
Photo Credit: ©️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. Hope you enjoy the visit. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all very much.
2023 CFFC: Summer or Fire
FIRE 🔥 and Fire Related:
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge-Summer or Fire
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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2023 Sunday Stills: Monthly Color Challenge – #Black and #Metallic at Home and Beyond
Warning Posts
Railroad Tracks 🛤️
Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge: #Black and #Metallic at Home and Beyond
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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Wordless Wednesday: 2023 October 18_Pumpkin Faced
love ❤️ my
new Look 👀 …
Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters… All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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2023 SYW: Week of October 16
This week’s questions I’ve needed to think about prior to answering, the last two especially. Anyway, here are my responses to the questions. I’ll be looking forward to seeing y’all’s responses to this week’s Share Your World questions.
Here are this week’s questions:
- What is your favourite dessert? I’m not sure that I have favourite dessert. This time of year I do enjoy a delicious pumpkin 🎃 pie 🥧. However, if I had the time and my grandson wasn’t lactose intolerant, I would bake and eat My Grandfather’s Favorite cookies. [That’s the actual name of the cookies passed down from my maternal grandmother.] The recipe calls for using sour milk. Growing up my mom always used buttermilk instead of sour milk. With this recipe one could make two different types of cookies. One type is filled with a raisin filling and another is made using cookie 🍪 cutter and iced and decorated as desired however one might desire.
- Do you still use cash to pay for goods? I hardly ever use cash to pay for anything anymore. Most of the time I’ll pay by a debit or card card. I also barely use the actual physical card to make purchases, most of the time it is a digital card to make online purchases or pay via apple or Walmart pay.
- Apart from a house, car or holiday, what is the most expensive thing you’ve purchased? The most expensive thing I’ve ever purchased was my Canon EOS Rebel T3i camera and lens combination from Sam’s Club years ago. I bought it as a gift to myself as a birthday present. It’s one of the best if not the best present I have ever bought myself.
- If you are going out for a special occasion, what is your favoured outfit? Currently, I do not have a favored outfit. I do not recall ever having a favorite outfit I would wear. I haven’t been out for any special occasion since Covid-19 began in 2020.
Gratitude:
Awareness Sunflower
by Simply _Fashion
Zazzle.com
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2023 FOTD: October 17
Purple Prairie Verbena
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max f/1.8 • 1/306 • 6.86mm • ISO64
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History & Planetarium; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
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Macro Monday: Cabbage
The Garden in The Farm
The Schiele Museum of Natural History
Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Garden in The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Monday Portrait: 2023 October 16
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
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Monday Window: 2023 October 16 – Under Construction
Under Construction
Gaston County Public Schools
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Gaston County Public Schools; next to The Schiele Museum; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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2023 Weekend Sky: October 14 – Part 2 (Shot on Canon)
Solar Eclipse
The previous post photos were all shot on my iPhone 14 Pro Max. These photos were all Shot on Canon. The Solar Eclipse in my area was only a partial solar eclipse, however it was still amazing to observe. These probably would have turned out better if I had the proper filter to use for the occasion. [Filters for Canon are on my wish list]. I hope you enjoy the video of my view of the Solar Eclipse.
2023 October 14
Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters…All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
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FOTD: 2023 October 16 –
CALENDULA ‘AMBER ARCTIC’
English Marigold,
Pot Marigold
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Garden in The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Silent Sunday: Fall Decor
While taking a long walk through the neighborhood; we noticed several houses that were decorated with fall decorations. Some of the houses were decorated with Autumn decorations while others were already decorated with Halloween decorations. These are a few of the decorations we saw on our walk.
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters…All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: New Hope Acres Neighborhood; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
God Bless. Thank you for walking and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all.
2023 Weekend Sky: October 14
Solar Eclipse
October 14th was the day for the annual Solar Eclipse. In my area we were only able to see a partial eclipse. We had rain previous to the eclipse and a tremendous amount of cloud cover. These photos are from my iPhone 14 Pro Max. They do not, I’m sorry to say, do justice to portraying the spectacular view I saw watching the eclipse unfold.
2023 October 14
as seen from
Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters…All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Cell Pic Sunday: October 15 – Sorghum
Sorghum is a cereal grain plant that belongs to the grass family Poaceae. It is thought to be native to Africa and is widely grown in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Sorghum has numerous varieties, including grain sorghums, used for food; grass sorghums, grown for hay and fodder; and broomcorn, used in making brooms. Sorghum grain is a nutritious food rich in protein, dietary fiber, B vitamins, and minerals.
For human consumption, the gluten-free grain is usually ground into a meal that is made into porridge, flatbreads, and cakes. The characteristic strong flavour can be reduced by processing. The grain is also used in making edible oil, starch, dextrose (a sugar), paste, and alcoholic beverages.
The Sorghum plants pictured here are located in The Farm at The Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium in Gastonia, North Carolina. These plants as well as other plants grown in the Garden are grown and given to the animals for feed.
John’s Cellpic Sunday
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History’s Garden in The Farm; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
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2023 SHARE Your Desktop: October 15
Wallpaper on My iPhone:
Wallpaper & Screensaver from My HP Laptop:
I know they all feature my grandson, Coleman. I never tire of looking at his pictures on my iPhone or on my laptop. I also never tire of spending time with him out in nature. He makes me smile, makes me laugh, and amazes me in how much he is growing and learning.
Share Your Desktop -October 2023
Photo Credit: ©️2033 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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2023 FOTD: October 14
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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2023 CWWC Part 2: Any which way with people in the Greenway
I decided to go ahead and do a part two to my CWWC – Any Which Way with People Challenge post. These photos are all taken at Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, South Carolina. The hikers you see pictured here are all members of the Anne Springs Close Greenway Hiking Club. Coleman and I participate in hikes with the hiking club whenever feasible. When it is not possible to join the hiking club for a hike Coleman and I go to the Greenway or various other hiking trails to hike. (Just an FYI, Coleman has been hiking the Greenway trails since he was approximately one and a half years old (1 1/2).
Cee’s Which Way Challenge – Any which way with people
Photo Credit: ©️2021-23 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Have a great weekend. Enjoy a hike. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all.
MWM: Monochrome Kinda Day …
Yesterday, October 11, I thought I was going to take photos with my Canon, however, that was not possible. Why? I goofed and forgot to change out the battery for a fully charged one and somehow the camera got put away in the on position. Therefore, the battery was dead and I was unable to use my Canon for my photography. Lesson learned, always check battery before leaving the house.
Luckily I always have my iPhone on me and sometimes use both while out and about around town or on a hiking trail. Instead of just using the normal mode I switched the iPhone settings to monochrome and proceeded to snap shots at the Schiele Museum’s Block Party, Dinosaur Theatre, And The Farm.
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
God Bless. Have a wonderful enjoyable weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all.
2023 CWWC: Any which way with people
For this week’s challenge I went off script a little using throwback photos of my mom depicting various types of transportation used way back when. Not quite sure the pathway that were used are clearly detectable or not. I might need to do an additional post that would be more accurately depict the trail, road, or paths used for traveling.
I chose these particular photos in remembrance of my mom. She would have been 92 on Wednesday. We were not close after I became an adult, but that didn’t mean I didn’t care or think about her. No matter what she was still my mom and I did love her.
… Care to hop aboard
… in a pony cart
and ride bareback
… to take a walk
Cee’s Which Way Challenge – Any which way with people
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
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2023 LAPC #270: On Display
family camping event
at the
Warlick Family YMCA
The Schiele Museum of Natural History
Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
Abilene, Texas
109 Montford Landing Road
Jacksonville, Onslow, North Carolina, USA
Lens-Artists Challenge #270: On Display
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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2023 CMMC: Plum (purple) Color
For this Cee’s CMMC this week I thought I would show you some of the Plum (purple) Coleman and I have seen this week on our hiking adventures at The Schiele Museum of Natural History and along trails at the Warlick Family YMCA. They range from purple colored wood on the maze to purple canoes and plenty of purplish flowers. Hope y’all will enjoy the slideshow.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge -Plum (Purple) Color
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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Floral Trio in Monochrome
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters …All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History Farm; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
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2023 CFFC: October_Spring – Wood
along the Fence Line
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge:Spring-Wood
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters…All Rights Reserved.
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Wordless Wednesday: Fungi
Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters… All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300mm lens.
Location: Gaston County Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
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2023 Whatsoever is Lovely: Lovely Flowers from My Week
XingfuMama’s Whatever is Lovely Challenge: 2023 – Week 41
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1,3-4) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 2) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens.
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
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2023 Macro Monday: October 9
Phedimus kamtschaticus
Orange Stonecrop
Stonecrop
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters… All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens. f/5.6 • 1/80 • 55mm • ISO500.
Location: Rooftop Garden; The Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
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2023 OWS: Barrier (Fences)
by fencing for safety
Visitors can view but not touch
Debbie’s One Word Sunday Challenge-Barrier
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 2) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens with Altura Wide-Angle Fisheye Lens attachment.
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2023 Sunday Stills: Oct 8 —Natural Textures in Nature
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Gaston County Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
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2023 FOTD: Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus
lemon lily, yellow daylily
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: In Front of the Gaston County Public Library; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
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2023 Monday Window: View from the Lake
Windows plus a few Doors
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Gaston County Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Sunny Sunday: Beautiful Peaceful Sunshiny Day
sunshine 🌞 into my life.
“Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you.”
2 Thessalonians 3:16 NIV (New International Version)
Both images were taken with my iPhone 14 Pro Max by Robinwood Lake at the Gaston County Warlick Family YMCA.
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Gaston County Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
God Bless. May you have a peaceful and joyous week. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.
2023 Silent Sunday: October 8
Hammad’s Weekend Sky Challenge- #117
Photo Credit: (c)2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Robinwood Lake; Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
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2023 Cell Pic Sunday: Peeking through…
through the Woods
John’s Cellpic Sunday
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Gaston County Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
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2023 Festival of Leaves Challenge: Week Three —Autumn Foliage
Leaves are often seen along hiking trails. Sometimes we notice the beautiful Autumn foliage in their full glory upon their tress and at other times we notice leaves of various shades upon the ground or in the nearby water.
The first two photos were seen in and around the creek at The Schiele Museum of Natural History’s nature trail. This is a place Coleman loves to visit at least twice per week. The only problem (depends on perspective) is keeping him out of the water.
The last two photos were captured as we were hiking along the Green Trail on the grounds of the Gaston County Warlick Family YMCA. These beautiful Autumn 🍂 leaves were located on the banks of the Robinwood Lake. The sunlight seemed to enhance their colourful loveliness.
Festival of Leaves Challenge 2023
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i
Lenses:
- 1-2) Canon EF-S55-250mm;
- 3-4) Canon EF 75-300mm
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2023 CWWC: Chug, Chug, Chugging Along
New Braunfels Railroad Museum
New Braunfels, Texas
I was able to visit the New Braunfels Railroad Museum back in January in 2020 when I had the opportunity to visit a relative prior to taking a cruise aboard the Royal Caribbean’s Enchantment of the Seas.
the signs, the tracks, &
the Norfolk Southern Railway Car
North Carolina Transportation Museum
Spencer, North Carolina, USA
Turntable Bridge and Roundhouse
North Carolina Transportation Museum
Spencer, North Carolina, USA
The 100-foot long turntable bridge on the ring rail — the outer circular rail. The roundhouse and turntable were apart of the Southern Railway Spencer’s Shops Complex. They are part of the North Carolina Transportation Museum.
The Roundhouse is the largest one of its kind remaining in the U.S. It was built in 1924 and served as a repair shop for locomotives and rail cars. In the old days, a turntable operator was on duty to spin the table to line up with the oncoming train car so it could be maneuvered into the Roundhouse for repairs.
My grandson, Coleman and I toured the North Carolina Transportation Museum back in August of 2021. We did not ride on the turntable bridge, however, for an additional cost visitors are able to do so if they so desire.
standing by railroad tracks
in front of Railway cars
The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad
Chama, New Mexico, USA
The Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad is a 3 ft ( 914 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates on 64 miles (103 km) of track between Antonito, Colorado, and Chama, New Mexico, in the United States. The railroad is named for 2 geographical features along the route; the Cumbres Pass and the Toltec Gorge. It was originally part of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad’s narrow-gauge network. It is jointly owned by the states of Colorado and New Mexico and has been since 1970. The very first rails for this line began to be laid down on February 20, 1980.
Railroad Trestle Tracks
as seen from the Blue Star Trail
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
We are not always lucky enough to actually see a train traveling along the Railroad Trestle. I captured this particular video back on November 28, 2020 on one of the many trails Coleman & I hiked at the Anne Springs Close Greenway. Hope you enjoy as much as we did when we watched it chugging down along the tracks.
Cee’s Which Way Challenge-Any type of Rails, Runways, Ski Lifts, Elevators, Hot Air Balloons, etc.
Photo Credit: 1-3, & 5) ©️Deb L. Waters; 4) ©️Marsha Hayes ( my maternal cousin).
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2023 October CMMC: Close Up or Macro.
Happy October! This month has begun with several trips to the Schiele Museum and lots of hiking. First of was The Early Explorers program at the museum. Early Explorers is for preschoolers (2-5 year olds). They do interactive play, songs, story time , and a craft each week based on a weekly theme. This week’s theme was Pumpkin.
Later in the day we rode the city transit over to the Gaston County Warlick Family YMCA.
We meandered down & around along the Green Trail to enjoy a hike and look at we saw. We noticed some interesting fungi and some very active bees 🐝.
The bees were having a pollinating party 🎉 it seemed. They were flitting to and fro devouring the sweet nectar of these bright yellow flowers.
Lastly, we spotted a autumn 🍂 leaf 🍂 clinging to the windshield of his mom’s car later in the afternoon.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge – Close-Up or Macro
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters…All Rights Reserved.
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Reaching for the Sky
(Helianthus tuberosus)
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Field of Wildflowers; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Black Cats – Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge
Weekly Prompts Color Challenge-Black
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 2) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.
Location: Gaston County Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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2023 LAPC #269: Living On the Edge
LAPC #269: On the Edge
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 and Altura Wide-Angle Fisheye lens attachment.
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2023 CFFC: Winter – Water
We have been active this week more than other times recently. We’ve made several visits to The Pond at the Schiele Museum and today we did a double excursion and visited the Warlick YMCA as well.
The first three are of water reflections in The Pond while the last two are of Robinwood Lake at the Y.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge -Winter/Water
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #193
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Stay Active. Enjoy a Hike. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.
Thursday Doors: In, Out, Around, and Through
Thursday Doors, hosted by blogger and author, Dan Antion.
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Thursday Trios: From Shades to Shows
at the
Dinosafari Theater
Photo Credit: ©️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. Hope you enjoy the visit. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all very much.
Throwback Shop Windows
near U.S. Air Force Base
Ludwig’s Monday Windows
Photo Credit: ©️Larry D. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Germany 🇩🇪
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2023 CosPhoChal: Up, down and sideways
As Coleman and I were wandering through the Nature trail at the Schiele Museum; we featured Up the stairs and around the path downward until he ran off and into the Playscape sand pit. He brought along his friend Mr. Blue.
Coleman met Mr. Blue at the doctor’s office. He helped him adjust to receiving two shots. He was comforted by him and decided he did not want to leave him behind when we arrived at the museum.
How’d I get this way?
Please help me!
Therefore, Mr. Blue tagged along by his Side any which way and everywhere he happened to go. Mr. Blue hadn’t realised he would be cast aside for Dinosaurs 🦕🦖🦕 Coleman discovered hiding in the sand.
… I wanted Upright.
Please do not look down on Mr. Blue for being disappointed. I’ll have you know he was not forgotten. When it was time to go back Up the trail to go home, Coleman made sure he gathered Up his new friend when he was packing his belongings into his backpack.
Cosmic Photo Challenge: Up, down and sideways
Photo Credit: ©️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 tagging along with us. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.
Wordless Wednesday: 2023 October 4th_T-Rex Please Don’t Eat Coleman
Photo Credit: ©️2023Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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