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Which Way Challenge (CWWC): December Week 2 — Any Which way with a Christmas holiday theme

This week I am combining the Which Way Challenge with Judy’s Numbers Game #51-172 & Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Decorations. I have chosen to use a theme of Any Which Way with a Christmas Holiday Theme.

My Which Ways this week are from the Cramerton Christmas Parade. Remember signs are always welcome in the Which Way Challenge.

You may have noticed the last photo doesn’t exactly show a Which Way, however, I decided to include Coleman with Santa and Mrs. Claus anyway. They rode on the Cramerton Fire Engine to end the Parade, but I couldn’t capture a good shot of them. Santa’s arrival signaled the end of the Parade. Santa and Mrs. Claus then made their way down to Confluence for picture taking time with the children.

Thank you to all those who joined in the Which Way Challenge (CWWC) December Week 1 Challenge. You might enjoy checking out the Which Ways from:

Garth (dimlamp) from gwh photos2

Jez from Photos by Jez

TGERIATRIX with Geriatri’x’ Fotogallery

Marie from HopsSkipsandJumps

Marianne Villanueva from Anthropologist

WoollyMuses

Cee from Cee’s Photo Challenges

Alice from The 59 Club

If I’ve missed anyone please let me know. I do appreciate all who joined in the challenges so far and hope y’all will have fun participating in the Which Way Challenges in the future.

Next week’s theme will be CWWC: Which way with the colors of Red and Green.

Which Way Challenge (CWWC) -Any Which Way with a Christmas Holiday Theme

Judy’s Numbers Game #51-172

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Decorations

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Downtown Parade Route; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Season Greetings. Enjoy your holidays. Remember the Reason for the Season. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Coleman’s Fascination with Watching “Flychines” Fly

Coleman has been fascinated with “Flychines” (better known as Airplanes) since he was about two (2) years old. He loves to watch “Flychines” fly through the skies. He enjoys watching them takeoff and land whenever possible. Yesterday he had a terrific view and ability to observe “Flychines” flying into Charlotte-Douglas International Airport while his mom was working at the airport.,

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Airplanes ✈️ Flying into
Charlotte-Douglas International Airport

The video was created through Google Photos Highlight Video creator. In watching this video you’ll be able to see what Coleman was seeing and possibly understand his fascination with “Flychines.” Be sure to look closely, if you do you might just notice the windows on the Airplanes.

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Fascination

Debbie’s Six Word Saturday

Ludwig’s Monday Window

Monday Window

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Charlotte-Douglas International Airport; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

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

2024 Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Mainly Orange — Autumn Orange +

— Autumn Orange

Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Mainly Orange

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

A Glance Thru the Swings

Watching Coleman at the Swings from various perspectives is something I do periodically. Therefore, it fits right into the Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge of Perspective.

The first perspective view is taken from the side of the Elementary School looking through the bars of the Swing-Set.

Another view from the same side of the Swing-set.

***Coleman migrating***
***through the Swings***

Here’s to watching Coleman from behind.

***Coleman deciding***
***if he wants me***
***to push him.***

The last two perspectives are from the opposite side of the Swing-Set …

Coleman decides to try a different Swing down the line from the first.

Having moved to the opposite side before coming to push him. This perspective I looked through the Swing-Set towards the School buildings.

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge-Perspective

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Gardner Park Elementary School Playground; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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

Stunning Views From Atop Stone Mountain

Further Adventures @Stone Mountain

As I continue to look back on time through the digitization process of my dad’s old slides I am reminded and am amazed by the wonderful world we live in and the freedom we have to create/recreate and share our experiences, our memories with others.

The slideshow is a digital representation of our adventures visiting Stone Mountain Park in Georgia. We, my family and extended family all came together to share togetherness while enjoying ourselves at Stone Mountain. My immediate family drove out from California, my paternal grandfather, from South Carolina, joined my dad’s sister and her family from North Carolina to visit the most popular attraction in Georgia, Stone Mountain Park.

We rode the Skyride to the top of Stone Mountain and the views were amazing. We could see the surrounding landscape, the parking lot, the other attractions in the park, blue waters of the lake & the pond, and the blue skies above. The most amazing part is that we were able to see the wondrous views together as a family.

Debbie’s Six Words Saturday

Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge-Blue

Throwback Thursday

Location: Atop Stone Mountain; Stone Mountain Park; Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA

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

LAPC: Floral #1

Poppies

One day a year we stop and pause to remember our fallen soldiers. Poppies spring up this time of year and are a tremendously beautiful sight.

Eschscholzia californica, the California poppy, golden poppy, California sunlight or cup of gold is California’s official State Flower. California Poppy Fields are burgeoning with beautiful blooming Poppies and are attracting many visitors.

However, It is the Red Poppy which is a significant symbol of remembrance. Red poppy flowers represent consolation, remembrance and death. The Red Poppy, often considered the Remembrance Poppy, is one of the world’s most recognized memorial symbols for fallen soldiers. It has been a remembrance symbol since the end of World War I. The Red Poppy is worn by millions of people Worldwide to commemorate Armistice Day or Remembrance Day. Here in the United States of America it is also worn on Memorial Day.

Today is the day the United States is observing Memorial Day. It was not always observed on the last Monday of May. Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day and was first designated to be held on the 30th of May in 1868.

Even though I have not known a soldier who lost his/her life on the battlefield during a war, I still keep the Faith. I have many friends and loved ones who during the course of war lost a little piece of themselves. Those friends and family members never forgot their friends and comrades who lost their lives during the wars they were fighting in. Let us all Keep the Faith and Never Forget those soldiers who gave the ultimate sacrifice.

“We shall keep the faith

Oh! You who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet — to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valour led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead
In Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honour of our dead.
Fear not that we have died for naught;
We’ll teach the lesson that we wrought
In Flanders Fields”
Moina Michael (1918)