2025 Thursday Trios: 18 December

Three Horses,

Three Riders,

One Trail Ride

As stated in my Monochrome Madness post, Coleman and I saw several horse owners at Anne Springs Close Greenway taking advantage of a beautiful afternoon to enjoy riding their horses on the trails.

I’m also linking this post to XingfuMama’s Pull Up a Seat Challenge.

Here are a few of the horses and riders we saw visiting the Greenway taking advantage…

Click on each image to enlarge.

Carol’s Thursday Trios

Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 50

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T7 (2000D) with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV Filter attachment.

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

God Bless. Enjoy your weekend. Spend time Outdoors and admire Nature’s beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 SYD: 15 December

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. 

I will only be sharing a small portion of my Desktop/Wallpaper images that I am seeing. The reason being I have been required to not post any pictures on any form of social media at this time of our newest family member, aka my new granddaughter.

Here are my Desktop Wallpaper and Screensaver for my Laptop:

From My HP Laptop:

Desktop Background Wallpaper

Coleman at
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Horse Stables

Desktop Screensaver

Muscovy Ducks
in Patterson Pond
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Fort Mill, South Carolina

From My Apple iPhone 16 Pro: 

I have two images alternating on my Hiking Focus for my iPhone …

Coleman petting
a rider’s horse
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Coleman
Canon EOS 2000D

Click on each image for enlarged viewing. 

Clare’s Share Your Desktop-December  

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

Cameras: Canon EOS 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV Filter attachment.

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

Monday Window: 2025.12.15

Gibson House

Kitty by a Window – 2 
— AI creation by 
Christmas Decor in
alignment with Window
Gibson House
Pull Up a Seat
in front of the Windows
and Enjoy the View

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Monday Window 

Monday Window

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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 Monday Portrait: 15 December

Holstein Friesian

Domesticated Cow and Calf

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Monday Portrait

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

Camera: Canon EOS 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV Filter attachment.

Location: Crandall Bowles Children’s Farm; Greenway Farm Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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

2025 Macro Monday: 15 December

Callicarpa americana

American Beautyberry

American Beautyberry is a woody deciduous, perennial shrub native to the southeastern United States including the Carolinas.

Clusters of small flowers bloom on the late spring and early summer. However, what you are seeing here are clusters of vibrant purple berries in the Carolinas that peak in late summer through autumn (August to November). The vibrant berries often persist into early winter providing significant food for birds and wildlife, making it a quintessential fall shrub for the region. The colors vary; most common is the vivid purple, though white and pink varieties exist.

American Beautyberry

The American Beautyberry offers many ecological services. How might you ask does it work? Its seeds and berries provide an important food source for a tremendous amount of songbirds of America. Some of those include American robin, brown thrasher, northern bobwhite, purple finch and eastern towhee. It is also a nectar source for butterflies and has fragrant foliage.

What I found interesting is that the American Beautyberry has been used by farmers successfully since at least the early 20th century to repel biting bugs from mules and horses by rubbing it on their coats and under harnesses. Why did I found this information so fascinating? The location of this particular American Beautyberry shrub is located near the horse stables at Anne Springs Close Greenway.

Click on image to enlarge. 

Macro Monday (MM)

Terri’s The #Flower Hour

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

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

Camera: Canon EOS 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV Filter attachment.

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

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 Silent Sunday: 12.14

Matching

Canada Geese
Patterson Pond
Crandall Bowles Children’s Farm
Anne Springs Close Greenway

Click on image to enlarge.

Debbie’s One Word Sunday – Matching

Silent Sunday

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere

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

Camera: Canon EOS 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250 mm lens with Altura UV Filter attachment.

Location: Patterson Pond; Crandall Bowles Children’s Farm; Greenway Stables and Farm Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take a hike/walk amongst God’s beautiful creatures. Have a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Monochrome Madness — 21 November

A Day

in the

Life of Coleman

Reflecting on a typical afternoon with Coleman if he had his chance to choose how it would go.

From beginning near the railroad tracks …

Corner across from
the Railroad Tracks

… Who needs school …

Disc Golf Trail

Let’s go meandering through Goat Island …

Coleman

Can you see me? …

Coleman

Better now? …

How am I doing about blending into my environment?

Disc Golf Trail

Shall we continue meandering?

South Fork Catawba River

The South Fork River is beautiful and has amazing reflections in the afternoons.

AI of Coleman
in the Playground

AI sometimes can remix an image pretty well. At other times you might wonder how it came up with its remix interpretation.

AI remix of Coleman
on a dirt Trail.

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

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

Camera: 1) Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max; 2-7) Canon EOS 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens; 8-9) Google Lens AI

Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North 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 SYD: 15 November

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

Coleman
Pulling Up a Seat
on a Pipe

Desktop Screensaver

Coleman checking out
the new Storybook

From My Apple iPhone 16 Pro: 

Focus

Coleman making faces
while waiting for the
Veterans Day Service to begin.

Reading Focus

Coleman
Pulling Up a Seat
on a Branch

Hiking Focus

Personal Focus

Television Focus

Click on each image for enlarged viewing. 

Clare’s Share Your Desktop-November 

Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 46

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

Cameras: Canon EOS 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

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 Thursday Trios: 14 November

Autumn Trios

I know I’m a day late, but still wanted to share these trios with y’all.

Autumn Leaves

Hydrangea paniculata

These Hydrangeas change colors from seasonally, They change from white to limelight to brown tones in late autumn through winter. They are beautiful regardless of the colours they are displaying.

Carol’s Thursday Trios

Terri’s The Flower Hour

Also For:

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

Bren’s Floral Friday

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens

Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North 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 November #Shadows #12

Discarded Pumpkin

Pumpkin 🎃 Left Behind

Becky’s November #Shadows #12

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250 mm lens

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

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

Tuesday’s Flower of the Day — 2025.07.10

Verbesina occidentalis

Seen on our walk through Goat Island Park and Greenway after church on Sunday. Beautiful yellow flowers popping out calling attention to their lovely blossoms.

Aka Small Yellow Crownbeard,
Southern Crownbeard, Stick Weed
Yellow Crownbeard

Cee’s FOTD 

 Cee’s FOTD

Terri’s The Flower Hour

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

Camera: Canon EOS 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens

Settings: f/5.6 • 1/250s • 152mm • ISO250

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

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.