2024 CosPhoChal – Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography

2024 CosPhoChal: Festive illuminations

Neighbourhood

Christmas Illuminations

A few of our neighbours of their front yards and home decorated with lights for Christmas. When I walk Coleman to the bus stop of a morning the street is illuminating with the homes all lit up for the holidays. Our street is only a small sampling of what one would see if you drove through the streets of Christmas Town USA. We haven’t driven through McAdenville ( which is famously known as Christmas Town USA) yet this year, however, we plan on doing so to allow Coleman to see all the Festive Christmas Illuminations which McAdenville has on display.

Cosmic Photo Challenge-Festive illuminations

Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC)

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

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

2024 CPC: Looking for Trees with Bare Branches

For this challenge I went searching through my archives to see if I could find any Bare Branches that I might like to select for y’all to enjoy in this post. Guess what? I found several I liked that I hope you’ll like and enjoy as well.

Crowders Mountain State Park
Kings Mountain, North Carolina
March 2023

Baxter Village Trail
Carolina Thread Trail
Fort Mill, South Carolina
January 2023

Old Town
Cramerton, North Carolina
November 2024

The Schiele Museum
Gastonia, North Carolina
March 2024

Nature Trail
The Schiele Museum
Gastonia, North Carolina
March 2024

Anne Springs Close Greenway
Fort Mill, South Carolina
February 2024

Lake Haigler
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Fort Mill, South Carolina
March 2024

Most of these were taken in the afternoon, after the weather warmed up a bit, while Coleman and I were out hiking and enjoying nature. Right now as I write it is only 27° degrees outside. I’ve already been out in the freezing cold and gotten Coleman on the bus for school. I’m glad I’m inside now out of the freezing cold. Burr, I wish we didn’t have to go out in the freezing cold for him to get on a bus for school. Winter weather has arrived even it won’t be officially winter till the twenty-first.

Cosmic Photo Challenge-Bare Branches

#CosPhoChal

Cameras: Apple iPhone 13 Pro; Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max; and Canon EOS Rebel T3i

Locations: Crowders Mountain State Park; Baxter Village Trail; Old Town Cramerton; and Anne Springs Close Greenway; in North and South Carolina

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take a Hike. Stay Warm. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 CPC/LAPC/Numbers Game #49 — Smiling By the River

What makes me smile? My grandson, Coleman makes me smile. Spending time in any one of our Warm Places makes me smile. Spending time out in nature, especially with Coleman, makes me smile and feeling all warm inside. Coleman loves to spend time by the Catawba River. There are several different areas by the Catawba River we enjoy spending time at. This week we enjoyed spending time on a warm sunny afternoon at Riverside Park and Greenway. It makes me smile when I am able to watch Coleman having a Funtastic time playing by the Catawba River. On this day he was having a fabulous time playing in the sand along the banks of the South Fork Catawba River at Riverside Park and Greenway.

Here are a spattering of photos depicting some of what makes me Smile and Warm Inside in one of our Warm places.

Lens-Artists Challenge #326-This Made Me Smile

Cosmic Photo Challenge-In My Warm Place

Judy’s Numbers Game #49-170

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #247

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Riverside Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

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

2024 CPC/CWWC: Down in the Park

By the River

Since we moved to Cramerton at the end of October; Coleman’s new favourite place to go visit is the Goat Island Park and Greenway. The following are a few shots from our latest visit on Saturday.

Cosmic Photo Challenge-Down in the Park

CosPhoChal

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #246

Cee’s Which Way Challenge

Which Way My Way

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Enjoy the Outdoors. Take a Hike. Relax in a Park. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Numbers Game #48 —169

Judy invites us all to play along with her each week for her Numbers Game. 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 that include that number and post a link to your blog in my 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.

Judy’s Numbers Game #48-169

Cee’s Flower of the Day

CocPhoChal-Down in the Park

God Bless. Take time for yourself. Walk around a Park or Greenway. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 CPC: Reflections

Reflections in the South Fork River

I love capturing reflections, especially reflections in water. Coleman and I just happened to hike along a portion of the South Fork River on Saturday. It was a relaxing time walking along the (new to us) Riverside Greenway in Cramerton which runs alongside the South Fork River. We saw quite a few amazingly beautiful reflections in the river. Here an only a small portion of what I managed to capture with my iPhone.

Cosmic Photo Challenge (CPC)-Reflections

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: South Fork River; Riverside Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

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

2024 CPC: The nights are drawing in

Soon Nightfall will begin earlier and earlier, as Autumn approaches the sunsets come more quickly (or so it may seem) and we adjust accordingly. These are some of my favourites, hope you enjoy them. Click on each photo to enlarge for enhanced viewing.

Cosmic Photo Challenge

#CosPhoChal

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

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

Sunday Stills/OWS/CPC — Bright Flowers & Wings

Flowers & Wings

in the Bright Sunshine

**Fiery skipper**
**on Zinnia violacea**

Wings on Bright Flowers

Terri’s Sunday Stills-Wings

One Word Sunday-Bright

The Cosmic Photo Challenge-What’s flowering where you are?

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #308-Perfect Pairs

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

God Bless. Thankful for a slight break from all the rain. Wish we could have a break from this extreme heat. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 CWWC/CPC: July — Week 3

Pathways and/or Passages

According the Oxford Dictionary, a Pathway is a path which you can walk along or a route you can take and a Passage is a way of exit or entrance; the act or process of moving through, under, over, or past something on the way from one place to another.

This week I am combining Cee’s Which Way with Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge doing it My Way. I have chosen to post pathways and/or passages at Marriott’s Great America in Santa Clara, California.

***Entrance to***
***Marriott’s Great America***

Aerial Views of

Pathways at

Marriott’s Great America

Pathways Around the Shops

and Places to

Pull Up a Seat

at Marriott’s Great America

***On the Pathway***
***with Warner Bros.***
***Looney Tunes Characters***
***& My Mom***

Cee’s Which Way Challenge

Which Way My Way

Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge

Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2024-Week 28

Throwback Thursday

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35mm

Location: Marriott’s Great America, Santa Clara, California, USA

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

Disneyland Parade — 1979

Here Comes

Mickey & Minnie

and Friends

Disneyland’s first parade was held on Sunday, July 17, 1955. The Opening Day was dedicated at an “International Press Preview” event which was open only to invited guests and the media.

The dedication and other special events of the opening were televised nationwide and anchored by three of Walt Disney’s friends from Hollywood: Art Linkletter, Bob Cummings, and Ronald Reagan. It was broadcast live by ABC. Even though the Special Event was by invitation only, many people succeeded in sneaking into the park soaring the number of attendees to an astounding 28,000 people.

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Disneyland has been having parades at the amusement park since that very first day except during the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020 when the park was closed. The theme of the parades change periodically with the seasons and significant historical events of the times. The Characters Parade occurred most years, as well as an annual Christmas parade and were popular among the tourists visiting the park.

In 1979, the Dumbo Circus Parade theme featured the same basic “Character Parade” floats with added circus decor. This particular theme parade only ran in 1979.

Although none of the floats were captured by my dad on this particular visit to Disneyland, many of the Characters were captured by his 35 mm camera. I am so glad that I am able to digitize his slides for preservation and am able to share them with all y’all.

Lens-Artist Photo Challenge (LAPC) – Tourist Attractions

Cosmic Photo Challenge-Motion

Throwback Thursday

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35 mm

Location: Disneyland; Anaheim, California, USA

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

2024 CosPhoChal/Weekend Sky —- Sunrise/Sunset

Lancaster, South Carolina

Andrew Jackson State Park

Lancaster County, South Carolina

Cosmic Photo Challenge-Sunrise/Sunset

Weekend Sky #130

Locations: Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA

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

2024 CosPhoChal: Beauty Thriving Down (Up) in the Meadows

***Panaeolus foenisecii,***
***AKA the mower’s mushroom,***
***haymaker, haymaker’s panaeolus,***
***or brown hay mushroom***

***Antheraea polyphemus,***
***the Polyphemus moth,***
***is a North American member***
***of the family Saturniidae,***
***the giant silk moths.***

Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge

Cee’s FOTD

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

2024 CosPhoChal: Waterways

Scenic Views of the Pacific Ocean

Walking along the Coronado Beach is a fun, relaxing afternoon pleasure filled with delight and beautiful scenery. The slideshow shows the walkways leading up to the Pacific Ocean, the Pacific Ocean itself, and various interesting sights near and in the water. The USS Midway Museum and, the “Unconditional Surrender” a 25-foot sculpture on San Diego’s embarcadero in downtown are just two of the interesting and impressive examples of the amazing sights that can be seen in beautiful Sunny San Diego.

Cosmic Photo Challenge-Waterways

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

2024 CosPhoChal: In the Canopy

Canopy of Trees

Cosmic Photo Challenge: In the Canopy

Cameras: 1) iPhone 14 Plus; 2-3&5) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 4) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.

Locations vary from North and South Carolina to Georgia.

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

2024 CPC: Looking Through

Looking Through the Rails & Such

The Cosmic Photo Challenge-Looking through

Cameras: 1-5)Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens; 6) iPhone 14 Pro Max

Locations: Various in 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 CosPhoChal: March 11 +

—- Interesting buildings

Hortus Palatinus
Garden of Heidelberg castle

These photos were taken back in the mid 1970’s (probably around 1975 or 1975) by my father when my parents travelled to Germany to visit my brother & his family which were stationed at the Air Force Wiesbaden, Germany. They were most likely taken with my dad’s Minolta XG-7 35 mm camera (which I now own).

Cosmic Photo Challenge-Interesting buildings

Throwback Thursday

Location: Heidelberg, Germany

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