2025 Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge — Grey

Grey squirrel statue
McDowell Nature Preserve
Charlotte, NC

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Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge-Grey

Photo Credit: ©️2020 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max

Location: McDowell Nature Preserve; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Get Outdoors. Enjoy Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 CFFC: Libraries and Bookstores

Libraries and

Little Libraries

Dan Antion our host for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge has chosen a theme of Libraries and Bookstores for the challenge. I’m including Little Libraries as well as a few Libraries.

Here are my entries …

Dan’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC)

God Bless. Have a fantastic rest of your week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much. 

Noteworthy News: This week’s Which Way Challenge on Friday, November 7th, we’ll be joining Dan Antion from No Facilities(https://noFacilities.com) and Marsha from (https://alwayswrite.blog/), to post Black and White photos to remember Cee on her birthday. For the Which Way Challenge they can be Any Which Way in Black & White in memory of Cee’s Black and White Challenge (CBWC). It would be fantastic if you could include Bridges and/or Old Barns as Cee loved photographing them. If you desire include a thought or memory about Cee or your experiences with her challenges. You may also include flowers in your Which Way for this challenge.

Tuesday’s Flower Hour (of the Day) — 2025.04.11

Viola x wittrockiana

Viola x wittrockiana
Aka Pansy
Aka Garden Pansy

Interesting fact: Pansy flowers are edible and have a mild, slightly sweet flavor. They can be used as a garnish, in salads, or to decorate cakes and desserts. Care for a taste?

Terri’s The Flower Hour

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD) 

 Cee’s FOTD

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

God Bless. Admire Nature’s Beautiful Flowers. Have a great weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 November Shadows #4

Early Morning Sunrise

Look closely
To See a Silhouette
Of Coleman Walking

Becky’s November Shadows #4

Hammad’s Weekend Sky-2025.01.11

Weekend Sky
Weekend Sky 

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA 

God Bless. Have a terrific week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Floral Macro Monday: 2025.03.11

Hydrangea macrophylla

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Macro Monday (MM)

Macro Monday 

Cee’s FOTD

Cee’s FOTD

Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters… All Rights Reserved. 

God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Festival of Leaves #6/Sunday Trees #610

Capturing Leaves and such along the South Fork Catawba River before church this beautiful Sunny morning with Coleman. We enjoy walking along the riverbanks whenever the opportunity arises. And since we were feeling a bit better after being sick, it was an opportune time.

Platanus occidentalis

Leaves of American Sycamore trees …

The American Sycamore tree is native to Eastern North America; which includes the eastern and central United States, the mountains of northeastern Mexico, extreme southern Ontario, and extreme southern Quebec.

The American Sycamore is a long-lived species, typically surviving at least 200 years and likely as long as 500–600 years. Interestingly the species epithet occidentalis is Latin for “western,” referring to the Western Hemisphere and named as such by Carl Linnaeus since the only other species in the genus was P. orientalis (“eastern “), native to the Eastern Hemisphere. Therefore, it became confusing due to the fact that the American Sycamore was first known in the Eastern United States. Hence, it is sometimes referred to as the Eastern Sycamore in order to distinguish it from Platanus racemosa which was discovered later in the Western United States and called western sycamore.

Dawn’s Festival of Leaves

Becca’s Sunday Trees #610

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion & Telephoto Cameras

Location: Banks of the South Fork Catawba River; Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Have a fabulous week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 November Squares #3

Squares are back hosted by Becky from The Life of BClick the link in the previous line to Check out her post for details regarding the #NovemberShadows squares challenge.

Coleman at the door of the
Faires/Coltharp Cabin
Anne Springs Close Greenway

Becky’s #NovemberShadows

Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

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

Location: Faires/Coltharp Cabin; Anne Springs Close Greenway, Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

God Bless. Happy Squaring. Have a fantastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 November Squares #2

Squares are back hosted by Becky from The Life of BClick the link in the previous line to Check out her post for details regarding the #NovemberShadows squares challenge.

Coleman by the
South Fork Catawba River
Cramerton, NC

Becky’s #NovemberShadows

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

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

Location: South Fork Catawba River; Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina. USA

God Bless. Happy Squaring. Have a fantastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Silent Sunday: 11.02

Stony Fork Baptist Church
Deep Gap, North Carolina

Silent Sunday

God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 November Squares #1(-to-3) — Shadows

Squares are back hosted by Becky from The Life of B. Click the link in the previous line to Check out her post for details regarding the #NovemberShadows squares challenge.

I’m combining my first #NovemberShadows entry with XingfuMama’s One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge.

Here is my #NovemberShadows contribution …

#One – Original …

Original
Afternoon Tree Shadows

#Two …

Black and White

#Three …

Watercolor +Film 9 effects
PicCollage Photo Editor

#Four …

Moody 4 + Sparkle 4 Effects
Pic Collage Photo Editor

#Five -Bonus …

Default 13 Effects
Pixlr Photo Editor

Click on each image to enlarge.

#NovemberShadows

One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-November 2025

One-To-Three Challenge

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion

Location: Railroad Tracks; Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Have a funtastic weekend and week ahead. Happy November to everyone. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Last on the Card – October

Brian from Bushboys World hosts a monthly challenge called Last On the CardHis rules are simple to follow if you’re interested in participating. 

Here are The rules:
1. Post the last photo on your SD card or last photo on your phone for the 30th or whenever your last photo was taken.
2. No editing – who cares if it is out of focus, not framed as you would like or the subject matter didn’t cooperate.
3. You don’t have to have any explanations, just the photo will do
4. Create a Pingback to this post or link in the comments
5. Use the tags The Last Photo and #LastOnTheCard

Here are mine for October… 

From my Canon EOS T7 (2000D):

South Fork Catawba River
Goat Island Park and Greenway
Cramerton, NC

From my Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max:

Norfolk Southern Railway
Old Town – S. Main Tracks
Cramerton, NC

#LastontheCard

God Bless. Have a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Watching Train in Early Morning Sky

Debbie’s Six Word Saturday 

Skywatch Friday-11.01.2025

Hammad’s Weekend Sky-2025.01.11

Weekend Sky
Weekend Sky 

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA 

God Bless. Have a terrific weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Pull Up a Seat (In a Waiting Room) #4 Plus

Atrium Health Rock Hill Medical Plaza main lobby waiting area seating.

Coleman

Atrium Health OB/Gyn Patient room seating waiting for the doctor to arrive.

Trisha (Coleman’s mom)

Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 44

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Atrium Health Rock Hill Medical Plaza; Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA

God Bless. Have a fabulous weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Happy Halloween (to those that celebrate)

God Bless. Have a terrific weekend. Stay safe. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Floral Friday/FOTD: 31 October

Camellia japonica

The Ella Drayton

Remembering:
Bren’s Floral Friday

Cee’s FOTD

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; Daniel Stowe Conservancy; Belmont, North Carolina, USA 

God Bless. Have a wonderful weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Which Way Challenge (CWWC): Any Which Way in Monochrome

On the Road …

A Stray Dog Wandering the Streets
A Country Lane

On the Trail …

In Anne Springs Close Greenway …

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Thank you to all who have supported and contributed to the Which Way Challenge this past week or at any time. Be sure to check out other Which Ways by clicking on the links below.

Dawn’s The Road to Visit My Sister

Geriatri’x’ Fotogallery’s Walking in Autumn

Chava61’s Festival of Leaves 2025 CWWC Autumn Colors & Sunday Trees

Suzette’s Deb’s Which Way Challenge- Autumn Colors Week 2

Dan’s This Too Shall Pass — 1LinerWeds

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy a hike/walk in Nature. Admire Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Noteworthy News: Next Week’s Which Way Challenge on Friday, November 7th, we’ll be joining Dan Antion from No Facilities(https://noFacilities.com) and Marsha from (https://alwayswrite.blog/), to post Black and White photos to remember Cee on her birthday. For the Which Way Challenge they can be Any Which Way in Black & White in memory of Cee’s Black and White Challenge (CBWC). It would be fantastic if you could include Bridges and/or Old Barns as Cee loved photographing them. If you desire include a thought or memory about Cee or your experiences with her challenges. You may also include flowers in your Which Way for Cee.

Remembering Cee

2025 Monochrome Madness — 30 October

This week Elke from Pictures Imperfect Blog is the host for Monochrome Madness. She has selected a theme of Farm Animals for our Monochrome Photo Challenge.

There’s nothing better than watching your cows enjoy the life you gave them.

Falling Sun Ranch

Cows in the Crandall Bowles Children’s Farm at Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, South Carolina. This is a wonderful place to visit with children of all ages.

“Pigs are not a symbol of dirt, laziness or clumsiness, but a mirror to view our relationship with nature.”

Yi-Fu Tuan
The Farm at
The Schiele Museum
of Natural History
Gastonia, North Carolina
Crandall Bowles Children’s Farm
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Fort Mill, South Carolina

“Alpacas represent all that
is good in this world.”

~ National Alpaca Association

Young Alpacas in the Crandall Bowles Children’s Farm at Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, South Carolina.

“To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that
of a human being.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi
tryst
The Farm at
The Schiele Museum
of Natural History
Gastonia, North Carolina
The Farm at
The Schiele Museum
of Natural History
Gastonia, North Carolina

“Most of us are here to make the world happier and better. Even the goats.”

Lisa Kaplin
The Farm at
The Schiele Museum
of Natural History
Gastonia, North Carolina

“There’s something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.”

~ Winston Churchill
Working Horses
on an Amish Farm
in Millersburg, Ohio

Horses in the pasture at Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, South Carolina.

Click on each image to enlarge. 

To learn more about Monochrome Madness check out Leanne’s Monochrome Madness page here.

Elke’s Monochrome Madness-Farm Animals

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

Photo Credit:©️2020-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

God Bless. Have a fabulous week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Thursday Doors: 30 October

Atrium Health Doors

Inside and Outside

Coleman and I haven’t been feeling well, so we haven’t been out and about hiking and enjoying the outdoors this past week. We did manage to get him to see a doctor (When did doctors to charging a fortune for a short visit — no tests?). While at the medical plaza waiting for him and his mom’s doctors’ appointments, I managed to capture a few doors with my iPhone.

Here are a couple of Inside Doors …

A couple of
decorative doors
seen from a patient room.
Doors and windows
of the downstairs lobby.

And now to view the Doors scene from the Outside …

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Dan’s Thursday Doors 

Thursday Doors

Thursday Doors

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved 

Location: Atrium Health Rock Hill Medical Plaza; Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA

God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Wordless Wednesday: 29 October

Five Panel Jerusalem Canvas Artwork
Discovery Center
Abilene, Texas

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Wordless Wednesday

Photo Credit: ©️2020 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max

Location: Discovery Center; Abilene, Texas, USA

God Bless. Have a wonderful week and weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 CFFC: Cultural Venues (Here, There, and Yonder)

Dan Antion our host for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge has chosen a theme of Cultural Venues for the challenge. 

Here are some of my intakes on Cultural Venues we have enjoyed at one time or another. Some venues are close by while others are further away, but all are in my opinion interesting Cultural Venues.

Here are my entries …

Let’s first take a look at some Cultural Venues in our surrounding area …

The Daniel Stowe Conservancy
Belmont, NC
Charlotte Symphony
in the Comporium Amphitheater
at Anne Springs Close Greenway
Fort Mill, SC
President James K. Polk
Birthplace Visitor Center-Museum
Pineville, NC

Now let’s wander a bit further out and a few other Cultural Venues of interest around the country.

Flat Top Manor
Moses H. Cone Memorial Park
Blowing Rock, North Carolina

on the Blue Ridge Parkway
Hall of Presidents
Colorado Springs, Colorado
It Once was a Wax Museum featuring Wax Figures of the Presidents of the United States. The Museum was opened in 1969
and closed in 1996
Bureau of Engraving and Printing Washington, D.C.
Julian Memorial Museum
Julian, California

Dan’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC)-Cultural Venues

God Bless. Hope you enjoyed the tour. Have a fantastic rest of your week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much. 

Note: This week’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC) will be focusing on Any Which Ways in Monochrome ( Monochrome doesn’t need to be strictly Black and White). 

2025 Numbers Game #96-218

Judy from Life Lessons blog hosts a weekly photo challenge called The Numbers GameThis week’s number is 218. Her instructions for playing along are listed below …

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 Judy’s  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.

Please click on photos to enlarge.

Here are my entries …

Please click on photos to enlarge.

Judy’s Numbers Game #96-218

Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Take Care. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Monday Window: 27 October

Kitty by a Window – 2 
— AI creation by PR

Museum of US

& California Tower

California Tower
and the
Museum of Us

The Museum of Us in San Diego was formally called the Museum of Man. The name was changed in 2020 to be more inclusive and reflect the museum’s commitment to equity, anti-racism, and decolonization. 

The large Tower to the left is known as the California Tower. It is a soaring, intricately detailed, portion of the California Building and is an icon of San Diego which can be seen from miles and miles around. The California Building houses the Museum of Us (aka Museum of Man).

Growing up in San Diego, the Museum of Man in Balboa was a favourite and fascinating place to visit. The entire time I lived in San Diego the Museum was called the Museum of Man. [I’ll probably always remember it as the Museum of Man as that is what it was called in the special time I recall in my memories.]

The Museum of Us(Man) traces its starting point to the Panama–California Exposition, which opened in 1915 on the occasion of the inauguration of the Panama Canal. The central exhibit of the exposition, “The Story of Man through the Ages,” was assembled under the direction of archaeologist Dr. Edgar Lee Hewett of the School of American Archaeology (later renamed the School of American Research and since 2007 the School for Advanced Research).

Between 1935 and 1936, the museum’s name briefly changed to the Palace of Science to correspond with the California-Pacific International Exposition. During this exposition, the museum housed special exhibitions from a variety of sources, such as the Monte Alban exhibit, which featured many artifacts on loan from the Mexican government.

In 1942, the museum underwent a name change to the Museum of Man, reflecting its commitment to anthropological pursuits. The addition of “San Diego” occurred in 1978. The museum is housed in four original buildings from the 1915 Exposition. These include the California Quadrangle, which was designed for the Exposition by American architect Bertram G. Goodhue, and the California Tower, one of the key landmarks in San Diego. The main museum is housed in the California Building with its landmark tower. 

The museum’s cultural resources and permanent exhibits focus on the pre-Columbian history of the western Americas, with materials drawn from Native American cultures of the Southern California region, and Mesoamerican civilizations, such as the Maya

The San Diego Museum of Us is one of the best anthropological style institutions in the United States. It is centrally located in Balboa Park, at 1350 El Prado. Besides being a popular attraction for tourists that come to visit the city, it is also a wonderful historic landmark. It is a must visit if you ever get to visit the San Diego area.

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Monday Window 

Monday Window

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God Bless. Have a fantastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 OWS: 26 October

DOUBLE Stacked

J.B. Hunt Intermodal

These are from one of the freight trains that pass by everyday while I(we) wait for the school bus. Coleman will never meet his maternal pawpaw during his lifetime, but he knows about him and what he looks like. He also knows that his Pawpaw drove an 18-wheeler for J. B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc..

When we saw these the other day Coleman recognized the J.B. Hunt logo and stated that that was the company his Pawpaw drove for. His Pawpaw drove an 18-Wheeler for J.B. Hunt from 1992 until a couple of years before his passing in 2018.

Debbie’s One Word Sunday-Double

John’s Cell Pic Sunday-2025.10.26

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion Camera

Location: Railroad Tracks; Corner of S. Main St. & 7th St.; Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. May you experience Double the fun, Double the happiness, and Double the love this week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Silent Sunday: 10.26

Hume Lake
Christian Campground
Hume, California

Silent Sunday

Photo Credit:©️1979 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35 mm

Location: Hume Lake Christian Campground; Hume, California, USA

God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Beautiful in Fuschia

Helleborus orientalis
Aka Christmas Rose,
Hellebore Lenten Rose,
Rose-colored Christmas Rose
Helleborus orientalis,
the Lenten Rose

Ragtag Daily Prompt-Saturday_Fuschia

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

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

Settings: f/5.6 • 1/320s • 229mm • ISO1250

Location: The Nature Trail; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Have a funtastic weekend. Take Care. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Shining Bright in the Evening Sky

Street Lamps
Fort Mill, SC

Maybe not exactly street lamps, but maybe close enough??

Airport Lights
Charlotte, NC

Debbie’s Six Word Saturday 

Ragtag Daily Prompt-Thursday_Street Lamp

Photo Credit:©️2022-2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

God Bless. Have a wonderful weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Which Way Challenge (CWWC): Any Which Way with Autumn Colours_Week Two (2)

Welcome back to another Which Way Challenge (CWWC). This week I have chosen Any Which Way with Autumn Colours Week Two (2) for this week’s theme. Autumn Colours can be on any path, sidewalk, trail, or road as long as the Which Way is clearly discernible. For further information regarding the Which Way Challenge (CWWC) feel free to check out the home page here.

Click on each image to enlarge. 

Thank you to all who have supported and contributed to the Which Way Challenge this past week or at any time. Be sure to check out other Which Ways by clicking on the links below.

Dawn’s Driving into Autumn Colors

Vanda’s CWWC 2025: Autumn Colours

Dan’s To Have or Have Not — SoCS

Suzette’s Festival of Leaves #4, Deb’s CWWC, SundayStills

Geriatri’x’ Fotogallery’s Walking in Autumn Colors

Lisa’s (CWWC)Which Way Challenge : Any Which Way with Autumn Colours

Which Way Challenge (CWWC)-Any Which Way with Autumn Colours 

Dawn’s Festival of Leaves 2025 Week #4

Terri’s Sunday Stills-Autumn Plant Life

Photo Credit:©️2020-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy a hike/walk in Nature. Admire Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Floral Friday/FOTD: 24 October

Rudbeckia laciniata

Aka Cutleaf Coneflower
Andrew Jackson State Park

Thursday Trios
Cee’s FOTD
Bren’s Floral Friday

Photo Credit:©️2019 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone XR

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

God Bless. Have a wonderful weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Thursday Doors: 23 October

Town Hall

The town of Cramerton was originally a mill town providing light weight Khaki uniforms to the military known as Army Khaki. The Mill offices operated within the building currently known as the Town Hall.

Cramerton Town Hall

The Town Hall building hosts the offices of the Cramerton Town Hall such as the Town Manager, Town Clerk, Finance Director, Planning Director, and the Zoning Administrator. It also is the location for the Cramerton Police Department.

View of Town Hall
from the south side
of the tracks
Cramerton Town Hall/
Cramerton Police Department

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Dan’s Thursday Doors 

Thursday Doors

Thursday Doors

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved 

Location: Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Monochrome Madness — 22 October

This week is a no theme week for Monochrome Madness, so I thought I’d share some from Standing on the Corner. Shots taken while waiting on the school bus watching the Train rolling slowly down the track. It was going slow … slower … slowly creeping to a stop not having enough power to complete its journey.

Click on each image to enlarge.

To learn more about Monochrome Madness check out Leanne’s Monochrome Madness page here.

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness-2025.22.10

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion

Location: Standing on the Corner; Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Have a fabulous week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Wordless Wednesday: 22 October

Click on image to enlarge. 

Wordless Wednesday

Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Corner of S. Main St. & 7th St.; Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Have a wonderful week and weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Numbers Game #95-217

Judy from Life Lessons blog hosts a weekly photo challenge called The Numbers GameThis week’s number is 217. Her instructions for playing along are listed below …

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 Judy’s  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.

Please click on photos to enlarge.

Here are my entries …

Please click on photos to enlarge.

Judy’s Numbers Game #95-217

Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 CFFC: Retail Markets Around the World

Dan’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC)-Retail Food

Photo Credit: 1975-2019 Deb L. Waters & Nornal H. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

The last two(2) photos were taken pre-1940. They belonged to my maternal grandfather and given to me on his passing.

Cameras: 1-4) Minolta XG-7 35mm film; 5-6) Apple iPhone 7 Plus; 7) Apple iPhone XR; 8) Apple iPhone 13 Pro

Locations: As stated with each image.

God Bless. Have a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Tuesday’s Flower Hour (of the Day) — 2025.21.10

Cephalanthus occidentalis,
aka buttonbush
with a
Trigonopeltastes delta, aka
Delta flower Scarab 

Terri’s The Flower Hour

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

 Cee’s FOTD

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

God Bless. Admire Nature’s Beautiful Flowers. Have a great weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Monday Portrait: 20 October

Collared peccary

My longtime friend had an unexpected and seemingly unusual visitor around her garbage cans the other night. A visitor she had not witnessed before in her neighbourhood, nor had any of her neighbours.

Aka Javelina

What was this unusual visitor you might ask? It was the creature pictured here known by many as the Javelina. In Arizona the Collared Peccaries are known by their Spanish name Javelina. What are Collared Peccaries or Javelinas? You might think they are some type of pig looking at their stout and pig-like bodies, but they are not pigs.

In fact, they are wild, pig-like mammals common in Arizona deserts, woodlands, and grasslands. Javelinas are known for their social behaviour and adaptation to urban environments. Even though they are primarily herbivores, feeding on prickly pear cactus, mesquite beans, and other desert plants, they will also eat insects and are known for raiding garbage cans for easy food access.

Javelina
in Arizona neighbourhood

Javelinas have sharp teeth and can be aggressive if they feel threatened. It’s best to keep dogs (pets) away from areas that Javelinas might wander. They can be an enormous nuisance to homeowners due to their attraction to garbage and gardens. Make sure to never feed a Javelina. Javelinas are most active during the twilight hours, specifically between dusk and dawn.

Javelinas can be found in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, through Mexico and south all the way down to Argentina. Javelina live in desert washes, saguaro and palo verde forests, oak woodlands and grasslands. Houses that are close to washes will likely have javelina in the neighborhood and are a usual sighting in Tucson, Arizona. [My friend lives in Maricopa, Pinal County, Arizona which is located within the Sonoran Desert a short distance south of Phoenix.]

Monday Portrait 

Photo Credit:©️2025 Beverly Boyce Graves … All Rights Reserved. 

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2025 Monday Window: 20 October

Kitty by a Window – 2 
— AI creation by PR

Then — & — Now

Hoover High School – San Diego
1974 (My Alma Mater)
1974 Main Entrance
Modernized Herbert Hoover High School
— San Diego, California

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Monday Window 

Monday Window

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Floral Macro Monday: 2025.10.20


Xylocopa micans

on a

Helianthus annuus

Southern Carpenter Bee
feasting on a Sunflower

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Macro Monday (MM)

Macro Monday 

Cee’s FOTD

Cee’s FOTD

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2025 OWS: 12 October — Teeth (of T-Rex)

Coleman
checking out the
Teeth of Tyrannosaurus Rex
King of the Dinosaurs

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Debbie’s One Word Sunday (OWS)-Teeth

Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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2025 Cell Pic Sunday — 19 October

Lake @ Andrew Jackson State Park

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John’s Cell Pic Sunday-2025.10.12

Photo Credit:©️2019 Deb L. Waters … Al Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max

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

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2025 Sunday Trees #608

Acer saccharum

Aka Sugar Maple

Sunday Trees #608-2025.10.19

Photo Credit:©️2022 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 13 Pro

Location: Rock Hill, South Carolina

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2025 Silent Sunday: 19.10

Rhododendron indicum
Aka Southern Indian Azalea

Silent Sunday

Cee’s FOTD

Cee’s FOTD

Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: 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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2025 Flower of the Day: 18 October

Helianthus angustifolius

Aka
Narrow-leaf Sunflower 

or Swamp Sunflower

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

Photo Credit :©️2022 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 13 Pro

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

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An Autumn Look Back with Coleman

Coleman Hiking in
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Autumn 2022

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Debbie’s Six Word Saturday 

Dawn’s Festival of Leaves 🍁 2025 Week #4

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

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

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2025 Floral Friday/FOTD: 17 October

Lantana

Lantana ‘Luscious Royale Lemon Tart’

Bren’s Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 

Cee’s FOTD

Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens

Location:Centennial Center; Downtown Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

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2025 Pull Up a Seat (In a Waiting Room) #3

This week I am continuing with Pull up a Seat (In a Waiting Room) #3. You may view the first Waiting Room post here & the second post here.

Every couple of weeks we are Pulling Up a Seat in Waiting Room. Pretty soon it will be every week that we’ll be Pulling Up a Seat in a Waiting Room.

This week’s Waiting Room …

Coleman
Coleman
waiting to go
with his mom
for her to
see the doctor.

Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 41

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Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Atrium Health Women’s Care Piedmont OB/GYN; Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA 

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