Deep Gap, North Carolina
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2025 Silent Sunday: 11.02
Deep Gap, North Carolina
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.
Deep Gap, North Carolina
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 …
Afternoon Tree Shadows
#Two …
#Three …
PicCollage Photo Editor
#Four …
Pic Collage Photo Editor
#Five -Bonus …
Pixlr Photo Editor
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One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-November 2025
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 Card. His 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):
Goat Island Park and Greenway
Cramerton, NC
From my Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max:
Old Town – S. Main Tracks
Cramerton, NC
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Watching Train in Early Morning Sky
Hammad’s Weekend Sky-2025.01.11
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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2025 Pull Up a Seat (In a Waiting Room) #4 Plus
Atrium Health Rock Hill Medical Plaza main lobby waiting area seating.
Atrium Health OB/Gyn Patient room seating waiting for the doctor to arrive.
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
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Happy Halloween (to those that celebrate)
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2025 Floral Friday/FOTD: 31 October
Camellia japonica
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
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2025 Which Way Challenge (CWWC): Any Which Way in Monochrome
On the Road …
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.
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 Schiele Museum
of Natural History
Gastonia, North Carolina
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Fort Mill, South Carolina
“Alpacas represent all that
~ National Alpaca Association
is good in this world.”
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
~ Mahatma Gandhi
of a human being.”
tryst
The Schiele Museum
of Natural History
Gastonia, North Carolina
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 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
on an Amish Farm
in Millersburg, Ohio
Horses in the pasture at Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
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To learn more about Monochrome Madness check out Leanne’s Monochrome Madness page here.
Elke’s Monochrome Madness-Farm Animals
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 …
decorative doors
seen from a patient room.
of the downstairs lobby.
And now to view the Doors scene from the Outside …
Rock Hill Medical Plaza
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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
Discovery Center
Abilene, Texas
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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 …
Belmont, NC
in the Comporium Amphitheater
at Anne Springs Close Greenway
Fort Mill, SC
Birthplace Visitor Center-Museum
Pineville, NC
Charlotte, NC
Now let’s wander a bit further out and a few other Cultural Venues of interest around the country.
Moses H. Cone Memorial Park
Blowing Rock, North Carolina
on the Blue Ridge Parkway
New Braunfels, Texas
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
Creation Museum
Abilene, Texas
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 Game. This 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.
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Here are my entries …
Close Greenway
Schiele Museum
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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
— AI creation by PR
Museum of US
& 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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2025 OWS: 26 October
DOUBLE Stacked
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
Christian Campground
Hume, California
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
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Beautiful in Fuschia
Helleborus orientalis
Hellebore Lenten Rose,
Rose-colored Christmas Rose
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
Fort Mill, SC
Maybe not exactly street lamps, but maybe close enough??
Charlotte, NC
Ragtag Daily Prompt-Thursday_Street Lamp
Photo Credit:©️2022-2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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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.
Close Greenway
Close Greenway
Close Greenway
Close Greenway
Close Greenway
Close Greenway
and Greenway
and Greenway
and Greenway
Autumn Colours Week Two (2)
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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 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
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.
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.
from the south side
of the tracks
Cramerton Police Department
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Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved
Location: Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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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.
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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
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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 Game. This 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.
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
in Germany
San Francisco, CA
& Cafe
Solvang, CA
Julian, CA
Deep Gap, NC
Harris Teeter Gastonia, NC
in front of
Deep Gap Cash Store Deep Gap, NC
Harvey Watson & eldest son Marvin Watson Corner Store Coshocton, Ohio
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
aka buttonbush
with a
Trigonopeltastes delta, aka
Delta flower Scarab
Cee’s Flower of the Day (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.
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.
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.]
Photo Credit:©️2025 Beverly Boyce Graves … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Take Care. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Monday Window: 20 October
— AI creation by PR
Then — & — Now
1974 (My Alma Mater)
— San Diego, California
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Floral Macro Monday: 2025.10.20
Xylocopa micans
on a
Helianthus annuus
feasting on a Sunflower
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Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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2025 OWS: 12 October — Teeth (of T-Rex)
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
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 Cell Pic Sunday — 19 October
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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
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy Nature. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Sunday Trees #608
Acer saccharum
Photo Credit:©️2022 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 13 Pro
Location: Rock Hill, South Carolina
God Bless. Have a terrific weekend. Enjoy a Walk. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Silent Sunday: 19.10
Rhododendron indicum
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
God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us.
2025 Flower of the Day: 18 October
Helianthus angustifolius
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
God Bless. Stop and Admire Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
An Autumn Look Back with Coleman
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Autumn 2022
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Dawn’s Festival of Leaves 🍁 2025 Week #4
Photo Credit:©️2022 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens
Location: Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a funtastic weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Floral Friday/FOTD: 17 October
Lantana
Bren’s Floral Friday
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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
God Bless. Have a fantastic weekend. Enjoy Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all very much.
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 …
waiting to go
with his mom
for her to
see the doctor.
Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 41
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Atrium Health Women’s Care Piedmont OB/GYN; Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Take Care of yourself. Have a funtastic week. 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 & News Note
Welcome back to another Which Way Challenge (CWWC). This week I have chosen Any Which Way with Autumn Colours 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. This Theme will run for Two (2) Weeks. For further information regarding the Which Way Challenge (CWWC) feel free to check out the home page here.
Here are my entries … All of which were taken at Goat Island Park and Greenway along the Disc Golf Trail.
Goat Island Park and 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 Which Way: Path to the Sunflower Maze
Suzette’s CWWC Deb’s Which Way Challenge – With Signs
Which Way Challenge (CWWC)-Any Which Way with Autumn Colours
Cosmic Photo Challenge-Scenes from an Autumn Garden
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: 1-8) Canon EOS 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens; 9-14) Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
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.
Next Week’s Theme: CWWC: Any Which Way with Autumn Colours Continued (Week 2)
Noteworthy News: For the November Challenge the 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.
2025 Flower of the Day: 16 October
Clematis terniflora
Clematis terniflora, also known as Japanese clematis is a weedy, twining perennial vine in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae that is native to Japan, Korea and central and southern China.
Japanese virgin’s-bower
Japanese Clematis, even though it may look beautiful, it is a vigorous grower in full sun or partial shade and spreads by self-seeding, layering, and runners.
Sweet Autumn Virginsbower
It has escaped cultivation to invade forest edges, right-of-ways, and areas along streams and roads. It climbs other vegetation, forming dense blankets that block sunlight to the plants underneath. The showy white flowers appear in late summer. It is considered an invasive species in some states in the eastern US.
Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple 16 Pro Max Ultra Wide Camera
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Take a Walk. Enjoy Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Thursday Doors: 16 October
Earlier this month I shared this same New Home Construction featuring its windows. ( You may check it out here. This week I am featuring the progress on my friend’s New Home Constructionand some of its doors on the interior as well as the exterior.
My friends are so excited, their house passed final inspection and they’ll be moving into their new home soon. The brick has been painted white. All the doors are hung as well as the ceiling fans. Everything is new, exciting, and welcoming for my friends to make it homey.
Here is a glimpse into their new home …
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Photo Credit:©️2025 Jim Elder … All Rights Reserved
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 LAPC #369 – Dreamy
Lens-Artists
Photo Challenge #369
Ann-Christine from Leya is this week’s host for the Lens-Artist Photography Challenge. She has chosen a theme of Dreamy which is different and thought worthy for determining what to post. I think I might have figured out a couple of options.
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau
beyond a
Field of Wildflowers
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
Harriet Tubman
“Dream what you dare to dream. Go where you want to go. Be what you want to be.”
Earl Nightingale
waiting on the
Bank above the
South Fork Catawba River
Ann-Christine’s Land-Artist Photo Challenge #369 -Dreamy
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: South Fork Catawba River; Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Dream a little Dream or two, make your Dreams a Reality. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 SYD: 15 October
Clare from Clare’s Cosmos invites everyone to join her in Sharing Your Desktop (SYD). Below are her suggestions for participating in the Share Your Desktop Challenge .
To do so, simply share the photo (not a screenshot) you have set as your wallpaper; Provide as little or as much detail as you wish; Use a pingback, or post a link here so I know you have joined in on the fun; Then finally, share the fun around.
I am sharing my Wallpaper from both my Laptop and my Smartphone. I enjoy looking at different images each month. Most of which revolve around Coleman (my grandson) and nature.
Here are my Desktop Wallpaper and Screensaver for my Laptop:
From My HP Laptop:
Desktop Background Wallpaper
Goat Island Park & Greenway
Desktop Screensaver
Goat Island Park and Greenway
From My Apple iPhone 16 Pro:
Reading Focus
Branch Goat Island Park and Greenway
Hiking Focus
Hiking along the
South Fork Catawba River
at Goat Island Park and Greenway
Personal Focus
Disc Golf Trail
Goat Island Park and Greenway
Click on each image for enlarged viewing.
Clare’s Share Your Desktop-October
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Canon EOS 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens
God Bless. Having a Wonderful Week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Monochrome Madness #45 —- Ceramics
Early American Pottery
Brian from Bushboys World is this week’s host for Monochrome Madness he has given us a wide range of options to explore and choose from to select our own interpretations for his theme of Ceramics.
Here are my entries for this week’s challenge …
A glimpse into depicting Early American Pottery in the Graham Cabin at Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Let’s look next at a display of Native American Indian Pottery in the Catawba Cultural Center at the Catawba Reservation in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
And now for discovering Early Native American Catawba Indian Pottery inside and outside The Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia, North Carolina.
of the
American Indian
of the
American Indian
Brian’s Monochrome Madness-Ceramics
Photo Credit:©️2022-2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens; 2) Apple iPhone 13 Pro; 3-5) Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Locations: As stated above.
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 Numbers Game #94-216
Judy from Life Lessons blog hosts a weekly photo challenge called The Numbers Game. This week’s number is 216. 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 …
Rock Hill, SC
Close Greenway
Fort Mill, SC
Greenville Zoo Greenville, SC
State Park
Lancaster, SC
Catawba River Riverside Park
& Greenway
Cramerton, NC
in Miracle Park
Rock Hill, SC
Rock Hill, SC
Riverside Park
& Greenway
Cramerton, NC
Riverside Park
& Greenway
Cramerton, NC
Lake Wylie, SC
Cramerton, NC
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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 Wordless Wednesday: 15 October
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Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: 8th Avenue Street Underpass; 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.
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