2024 CMMC: October Fern Green Color

Green in the Garden

Green by the Lake

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all ever much.

2024 CMMC: October Week 1 — Close Up or Macro

Close-Ups Around the Greenway

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up or Macro

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

Cameras: 1-2) iPhone 13 Pro; 3-4) Canon EOS Rebel T3i

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

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

2024 CMMC: May —Alphabet a D anywhere in the word

Visiting “D” Places From

California to North Carolina

Movieland Doors
Movieland Wax Museum
Buena Park, California
in May 1966
Moving Forward on
TWEETSIE RAILROAD
Boone, North Carolina

in July 1969
It’s a Small World
Disneyland
Anaheim, California

in June 1970
Hopi House
Pueblo Indian Dwelling
Grand Canyon, Arizona

in January 1971
View from Angels Landing
Angels Landing Trail
Zion National Park, Utah

in August 1971

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-May Alphabet a D anywhere in the word

Becky’s Square Renew-Moving Forward

Dan’s Thursday Doors

Throwback Thursday

Photo Credit:©️1966-1971 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved.

Digital Conversion of my dad’s slides were done using Wolverine’s Digital Converter.

God Bless. Thank you for traveling back in time across America with us. We had fun moving forward with memories reconstructing my dad’s old slides to share and preserve. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 CMMC: May — Pick a Topic from my Photo 

Luckily we had a beautiful sunny day on Sunday which enabled me to capture plenty of signs, and shots with words in them as Cee’s CMMC – Pick a Topic from my Photo requests us all to post.

Our visit to Anne Springs Close Greenway is extremely accommodating in the aspect of Signs and various Objects with Words.

Signs can be found all around the Reconstructed Children’s Farm ..,

Ducks Signage
by Patterson Pond

Along all the various Trails …

Trail Signs

In front of buildings such as The Hangar …

The Hangar

Or on and in front of an Historic Tack Shed …

Historic Tack Shed

And even in a flower bed informing everyone about the Sylvia Epps Baker Metal Sculpture.

Sylvia Epps Baker

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Pick a Topic from my Photo

Becky’s #SquareRenew

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

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

2024 CMMC: May Denim Color

This week I chose a variety of photos from previous years I hope will meet Cee’s CMMC theme sufficiently.

Polygonum punctatum Elliott
Dotted Smartweed

with a “Denim Blue” Sky (2023)
Blue Agave plants (2020)
Coleman Climbing
a Deer Stand (2022)
Doyce Eileen (Watson) Waters
one of the last pictures of my mom (2018)

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: May – Denim Colors

Becky’s Squares-Renew

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

2024 FOTD: Castle Garden Flowers

Hearst Castle Garden

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Becky’s Squares

Throwback Thursday

Photo Credit: ©️1969 Nornal H. Waters (my dad)… All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Minolta XG-7 with Kodak Ektachrome 35 mm slide film.

Location: Hearst Castle; San Simeon, San Luis Obispo County, California, USA

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

2024 CMMC: Close Up or Macro — Renewal

Renew may mean something different for each one of us whether it be being new again, being refreshed, or becoming strong once again. We all see and experience being renewed and refreshed every single year, every month, every day, and possibly every single minute.

I’m combining Cee’s CMMC & Becky’s Square Challenges for this post.

Let’s take time to relax, refresh and renew ourselves at Glen Ivy Hot Springs.

Glen Ivy Hot Springs is a resort in Riverside County, California that has been in existence since 1860. That’s 164 years of history that has attracted many visitors to visit their mineral springs. People come seeking the benefits of nature, water and exercise. It is a pleasurable experience enjoying time of relaxation, renewal, and a deep sense of wellbeing which the hot springs can bring.

Close-up of the turtles
and fishes in the Pond

Glen Ivy Hot Springs Resort offers many options for you to relax, renew, and restore your body. Those options include experiencing the Mineral Springs, the Grotto, and Club Mud.

The Mineral Bath entails spending 15 minutes soaking in the 104 degree geothermal waters. The sulfur-rich springs ease joint pain and soften the skin. These waters have powerful healing effects on the body and soul.

The Grotto experience is the resort’s Subterranean Treatment. It is a part of  your skin softening, sensuous and subterranean journey. For this subterranean journey you descend into their secret cave and are painted neck-to-toe with a warm aloe vera, coconut oil, eucalyptus, shea butter and lavender masque. Your body is warmed in this gently heated cavern while your skin soaks in the silky formula as your body heats and your pores open.

Club Mud combines the detoxifying benefits of our geothermal mineral water with local red clay mud.  The mud blends into a silky soft paste with our mineral water. Let the mud dry by baking in the sun or in our warm ‘Wafa’ cave. When the dried mud becomes loose and flaky, you simply wash it off noticing a baby-soft feeling on your skin.

A day at Glen Ivy Hot Springs is a unique experience. Who doesn’t need a little pampering once in a while. Be prepared though, the pampering at Glen Ivy doesn’t come cheap. They do offer many different options and plans to choose from. Everyone can find an affordable option to participate in this unique experience. Reservations are required.

If you’re coming from out of the area you might choose to stay just a short distance ( 2 minute drive or 10 minute walk) away in the Glen Ivy RV Park. Staying in the RV park is an opportunity to be close to nature and is a relaxing opportunity as well. If you’re inclined to visit Southern California, Glen Ivy Hot Springs is a fantastic and unique experience not to be overlooked. This is an experience and memory from the mid- nineteen eighties, when I lived in the Riverside County area of Southern California.

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up or Macro

Becky’s #SquaresRenew Challenge-May

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

2024 CMMC: April —Alphabet a CK or CH in a word in Monochrome

My CK and CH seen while Coleman and I walked around the neighbourhood.

Monochrome Dump Truck
Coleman
wearing a Backpack
walking to the Dump Truck
in Monochrome
Monochrome Close-up
of the Door
on a Dump Truck

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-April Alphabet_a CK or CH in a word

Dan’s Thursday Doors

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: New Hope Road; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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

2024 CMMC/CWWC: Any Latte Way

We managed to have a beautiful clear day yesterday (almost), so Coleman and I rode the bus to the Y for some fresh air and a bit of hiking.

All aboard, we’re on our way.

Before we begin our hike, it’s Coleman swing time. If we waited till later the school kids would have taken over and he couldn’t have been able to play.

Next, Coleman cools down with a snack as I gaze out over the lake.

Now for our hiking, Coleman leads the Way. I constantly have to instruct him to slow down. He hikes much faster than I’m able to hike.

Through the woods along the bank of the lake we traverse. Across the dam and deeper into the woods. Upward, downward, and around and around we go.

Coleman spots the Fitness Challenge area off the Yellow Trail and climbs aboard for some fun before continuing our hike and back up to the Y.

Tired from our hike we’re gonna Leaf it all behind, and venture to the bus stop and head home.

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-April Latte Color

Cee’s Which Way Challenge-Any Way

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

Cameras: iPhone 14 Pro Max and Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens with Altura UV & NP filter and also Altura Wide-Angle Fisheye attachments.

Location: Gaston County Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Get Outdoors and Enjoy Our Beautiful Earth. Thank you for traversing the trail with us. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 CMMC: April – Cafe Latte Color

My entries for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge are mostly from South Carolina from my archives. Feel free to join in and post your own Cafe Latte color photos and link them to Cee.

Solar Eclipse
as seen on Tiles
Sesquicentennial State Park
Columbia, South Carolina
Riverbanks Zoo
Columbia, South Carolina
Andrew Jackson
State Park Lake

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Cafe Latte Color

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

Photos taken between 2017-2019 except eclipse is from 2024.

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

2024 CMMC: April – Close up or Macro

Calendula officinalis L.
Marigold
Bunias orientalis,
Warty-cabbage
Helleborus viridis,
AKA Green Hellebore
Brassica oleracea
Wild Cabbage
Euonymus japonicus
‘Aureo-Marginata’

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-April Close Up or Macro

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

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

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

Location: 1-4) The Heritage Garden; The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA; 5)Dairy Barn Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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

2024 CMMC: March — Alphabet an A or E in a Word

Gastonia Erwin Center

Park and Recreation

Cee asks everyone to post photos of Words that contain the Alphabet letters A or E. My selections for this week come from mine and Coleman’s recent visit to Gastonia’s Erwin Center Park and Recreation. As per usual Coleman (notice the Name A & E) is in several of my photos.

Gastonia Erwin Center
Parks and Recreation Sign with Coleman
Basketball Court
Gastonia Erwin Center
Park and Recreation
Ball Field
used for Soccer and Baseball
Gastonia Erwin Center
Park and Recreation
Coleman
in the
Children’s Playground
Coleman
sliding on the
Playground Equipment Slide

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-March_Alphabet an A or E in a Word

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Erwin Center Park and Recreation; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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

2024 CMMC: Pick a Topic from my Photo

My entries for this Cee’s CMMC this week are a variety of new and archive photos I hope you enjoy. There were taken at The Schiele Museum of Natural History and the Warlick Family YMCA in Gastonia, North Carolina as well as at Andrew Jackson State Park (three of our favorite places to go hiking and relax out in nature.

Brown, Green, Layers, Landscape
Green Lettuce on a Bed of Brown Bark

Heritage Garden; The Farm;
The Schiele Museum of Natural History;
Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
Brown, Green, Teal, Water, Landscape, Layers
Spillway; The Nature Trail;
The Schiele Museum of Natural History;
Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
Blue, Water, Green, Lake, Layers, Brown
Robinwood Lake; Warlick Family YMCA;
Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
Blue, Brown, Green, Landscape, Water, Lake, Layers
The Lake at Andrew Jackson State Park;
Lancaster, South Carolina, USA

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Pick a Topic from My Photo

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #213

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

2024 CMMC: March — Amaranth Magenta Color

Thirst for Color in Nature

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Amaranth Magenta Color

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

2024 CMMC: March — Close Up or Macro

These close-ups were all captured during mine & Coleman’s latest visit to (I was so worried you lay down. You don’t just – Apple iPhone’s Siri trying to type what was said to my grandson, oops) our local museum’s nature trail.

We started this visit with a walk through the Dinosaurs Exhibitions …

Stegosaurus Plates

Then we moved on the Nature Trail and a walk around the Pond …

Turtles & their Reflections

And ended our visit with a stroll through the Garden in The Farm …


Great Mullein

Verbascum thapsus

New life is slowly starting to arrive and in the next few weeks new growth will begin to emerge in abundance.

Ranunculus acris
Common Buttercup

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up or Macro

Cee’s FOTD

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

Cameras: 1/2) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 3/4) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.

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

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

2024 CMMC: February—Alphabet W or X anywhere in the word

Flowing From Flowering Weeds to Wonderful Serenity of Calming Blue Waters; here is my entry for

Cee’s CMMC this week.


Common WEED
Cardamine hirsuta,
AKA hairy bittercress
henbit deadnettle
Lamium amplexicaule

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-February Alphabet W or X anywhere in the word

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

2024 CMMC: Pick a Topic from my Photo

My entries for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge this week were all taken at Goat Island Park & Greenway along the South Fork River Trail, a part of the Carolina Thread Trail System one year ago in February 2023.

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Pick a Topic from my Photo

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.

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

God Bless. Thank you for visiting the Greenway and sharing your time and thoughts with us.

2024 CMMC: February —

Walnut Brown Color

A Greenway Horse
Anolis carolinensis  
Carolina anole
Old Rustic Doors
A Greenway Horse
Key Chain
Made in Brazil

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Walnut Brown Color

Thursday Doors-02.15.24

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

2024 CMMC: Close Up or Macro

Let’s talk turkey, nah let me show you more green. This time a close-up view of green plants in the Farm Garden at The Schiele Museum.

Here’s a look at my contributions for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge of Close Up or Macro.

Turkey feathers
Verbascum thapsus
Common Mullein
Sedum Coccinea
AKA Stonecrop

or Dragon’s Blood

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up or Macro

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 18-55mm and Canon EF-S55-250mm lenses.

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

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