Category: 2026 Dan’s Fun Foto Challenge

2026 CFFC: View from Ships on Water 

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Dan from No Facilities hosts the Fun Foto Challenge at and this week he is asking for our Views from Something on Water. I have gone into my archives for this one to past adventures on ships in the water.

First I’m going to take y’all way back to 1974. We’ll be visiting the historic Queen Mary docked in Long Beach, California. (Dan, you didn’t say it had to be moving.) My family and I toured the Queen Mary the summer after my high school graduation. (Yep, that gives you a clue to how long I’ve been around.)

These are views from aboard the Queen Mary taken with my dad’s Minolta XG-7 35mm camera …

Aboard the Historic Queen Mary
Long Beach, California

The next Views are from the Enchantment of the Seas Caribbean Cruise Ship taken with an Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max during a cruise in February of 2020.

Aboard the Enchantment of the Seas Caribbean Cruise Ship
Gulf of Mexico
(now Gulf of America)

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Hope you enjoyed our views from Ships on Water. Looking forward to seeing y’all’s.

Dan’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC)-View From Something on Water 

Photo Credit: First Set: ©️1974 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved; Second Set: ©️2020 Deb L. Waters … All Rights reserved.

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

2026 CFFC: View from a car

Looking forward

(Through the Past)

Dan from No Facilities hosts the Fun Foto Challenge at and this week he is asking for our Views from a Car. I have chosen to take you on an adventure of Looking Forward while Venturing backwards in time to Past Views from a Windshield.

Let’s begin with the Current 2026 …

The View to the Carolina Speedway
Gastonia, North Carolina

2025 View in Charlotte, North Carolina …

Driving through downtown Charlotte

Now to the Past Views from a Car …

2017 …

Beautiful Views
while driving the
Blue Ridge Parkway (NC)
(taken from the passenger seat).

2012 …

Views In Ohio’s Amish Country

Now to Traverse even Further Back in Time …

1979 …

Views while crossing
San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge
in California, USA

1973 …

Fixing to stop
at a
Texas Toll Booth

1963 …

Approaching the Toll Booth,
The Dallas/Fort Worth
Turnpike in Texas.

Nowadays you don’t need to stop, due to the digital age they just capture your license plate & send you a bill.

Dan’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC)-View From a Car

Photo Credit: ©️1963-2026 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) and Deb L. Waters (aka me).

God Bless. Take an adventure. See some beautiful sights. Capture the Memories. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2026 CFFC: Tools and Equipment (Found Working & at Rest)

Dan Antion from No Facilities , the host of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC) has chosen to start a new series of related themes dealing with Tools and Equipment. This is the fourth week of the new series for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge with Inventions which has a feature of Tools and Equipment.

Here are my entries …

Ridgid RB40 Jobsite Toolbox seen along the Rocky Branch Trail
Dewalt DWE7491RS – Job Site Table Saw w/ Rolling Stand, 10″, Compact
Storage of Fire Extinguishers & other equipment
Construction Equipment hard at work by The Schiele Museum
Construction Equipment at Anne Springs Close Greenway
CATERPILLAR 349F Crawler Excavators
Vancer CWX20 HI-RAIL EXCAVATOR
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Tools and Equipment

Dan’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC)-Tools and Equipment

Photo Credit:©️2023-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

God Bless. Get Outdoors. Make some funtastic memories. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2026 CFFC: Inventions Of Gadgets and Gizmos

Dan Antion from No Facilities , the host of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC) has chosen to start a new series of related themes dealing with Inventions and Gizmos. This is the second week of the new series for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge with Inventions starring Gadgets and Gizmos.

Here are a few examples of Gadgets and/or Gizmos I have found in our wanderings …

Gadgets and Gizmos
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Photo Credit: ©️2023-2026 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

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

2026 CFFC: Inventions Throughout Time

Dan Antion from No Facilities , the host of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC) has chosen to start a new series of related themes dealing with Inventions and Gizmos. He is starting the new series for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge with Inventions.

Here is what I have discovered …

Beginning back in my timeline of inventions …

1956 Videocassette recorder
invented by Ampex

Let’s look back a bit before my time …

NCR Mechanical Cash Register

The National Cash Register Company (NRC) was founded by John H. Patterson in 1884 in Dayton, Ohio. He pioneered the mechanical cash register to stop employee theft.

And even further back …

Letterpress on the
USS North Carolina

The letterpress printing machine was invented way back around 1440 by Johannes Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany. The letterpress printing machine enabled mass production of books, revolutionizing the spread of information. It was a dominant printing method for over 500 years.

Quote by Charles Kettering

On to other inventions seen at various museums …

Robots anyone?

Early Robots as seen in The Discovery Center in Abilene, Texas in March of 2020.

The Joe Steinlauf Bed Bike

The Joe Steinlauf Bike, often referred to as the Bed Bike, is on display (at least it was in August of 2021) at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, North Carolina. The Bed Bike is an unconventional contraption designed by using a metal headboard.

“One rule of invention;
before you can invent it,
you have to imagine it.
By James Gunn
Olympia typewriter

The Olympia Typewriters were produced by the German company Olympia-Werke AG (founded 1903 in Wilhelmshaven). This typewriter was donated to the St. Simons Island Lighthouse Museum (St Simons, Georgia) in 1970 by Eileen Humphlett. It was one used by the author Eugenia Price.

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Photo Credit: ©️2017-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

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

2026 CFFC: Up/Down or Both

Dan Antion from No Facilities , the host of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC) has chosen to continue his themes dealing with this, that, or both. This week’s them is Up or Down or Both. I can’t imagine anyone being eavesdropper to hear on our discussion about my past family vacations to Stone Mountain in DeKalb County, Georgia. Memories are precious to recall regardless of whether they’re from long ago or just a few weeks ago.

I’ve drawn from the past and present to bring together a few Ups and Downs to meet this week’s challenge theme.

Here are my contributions …

Flying Upward
Soaring Down Close to the Ground
Up, Up, & Away
Coming Down
for a Landing
Traveling Up & Down the Long Road (SC21)
Riding Up
in the air
in a Gondola
Up on top of Stone Mountain,
Georgia Looking Down Below
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Up or Down or Both

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Dan’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC)

JusJoJan26-Eavesdropper

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