Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography
This blog is for my insights on life, the Bible, hiking adventures with my grandson and whatever is important to me
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Debbie’s One Word Sunday (OWS)-Teeth
Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
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Dawn’s Festival of Leaves 🍁 2025 Week #4
Photo Credit:©️2022 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens
Location: Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South 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.
This week I am continuing with Pull up a Seat (In a Waiting Room) #3. You may view the first Waiting Room post here & the second post here.
Every couple of weeks we are Pulling Up a Seat in Waiting Room. Pretty soon it will be every week that we’ll be Pulling Up a Seat in a Waiting Room.
This week’s Waiting Room …
Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 41
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Atrium Health Women’s Care Piedmont OB/GYN; Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Take Care of yourself. Have a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Welcome back to another Which Way Challenge (CWWC). This week I have chosen Any Which Way with Autumn Colours for this week’s theme. Autumn Colours can be on any path, sidewalk, trail, or road as long as the Which Way is clearly discernible. This Theme will run for Two (2) Weeks. For further information regarding the Which Way Challenge (CWWC) feel free to check out the home page here.
Here are my entries … All of which were taken at Goat Island Park and Greenway along the Disc Golf Trail.
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Thank you to all who have supported and contributed to the Which Way Challenge this past week or at any time. Be sure to check out other Which Ways by clicking on the links below.
Dawn’s Which Way: Path to the Sunflower Maze
Suzette’s CWWC Deb’s Which Way Challenge – With Signs
Which Way Challenge (CWWC)-Any Which Way with Autumn Colours
Cosmic Photo Challenge-Scenes from an Autumn Garden
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: 1-8) Canon EOS 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens; 9-14) Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy a hike/walk in Nature. Admire Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Next Week’s Theme: CWWC: Any Which Way with Autumn Colours Continued (Week 2)
Noteworthy News: For the November Challenge the Which Way Challenge on Friday, November 7th, we’ll be joining Dan Antion from No Facilities (https://noFacilities.com) and Marsha from (https://alwayswrite.blog/), to post Black and White photos to remember Cee on her birthday. For the Which Way Challenge they can be Any Which Way in Black & White in memory of Cee’s Black and White Challenge (CBWC). It would be fantastic if you could include Bridges and/or Old Barns as Cee loved photographing them. If you desire include a thought or memory about Cee or your experiences with her challenges.
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
Desktop Screensaver
From My Apple iPhone 16 Pro:
Reading Focus
Hiking Focus
Personal Focus
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Clare’s Share Your Desktop-October
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Canon EOS 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens
God Bless. Having a Wonderful Week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Judy from Life Lessons blog hosts a weekly photo challenge called The Numbers Game. This week’s number is 216. Her instructions for playing along are listed below …
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 under that number and include a link to your blog in Judy’s 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.
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Here are my entries …
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Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Terri’s Sunday Stills: Monthly Colour Challenge- Black (and/or White)
God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all be much.
This week John from Journeys with Johnbo is hosting the Lens-Artist Photo Challenge. He has come up with the “Looking Back” theme of Autumn. With mainly the Northern Hemisphere being in the Autumnal Season and the Leaves are changing colours, it seems appropriate that we show off our Fall/Autumn colours. I am linking up with Dawn’s Festival of Leaves, which I feel is definitely appropriate due to the Autumn Colours of Leaves being displayed. You can find out more about Dawn’s Festival of Leaves challenge here.
Here are my entries for these challenges …
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John’s Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #368-Autumn
Dawn’s Festival of Leaves 2025-Week #3
Photo Credit:©️2022-2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T3i and Apple 14 Pro Max
Locations: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina and Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina
God Bless. Have a funtastic weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Welcome back to another Which Way Challenge (CWWC). This week I have chosen Any type of Walkways or Pathways with Signs for this week’s theme. Signs can be on any path, sidewalk, trail, or road as long as the Which Way is clearly discernible. For further information regarding the Which Way Challenge (CWWC) feel free to check out the home page here.
Here are my entries …
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Thank you to all who have supported and contributed to the Which Way Challenge this past week or at any time. Be sure to check out other Which Ways by clicking on the links below.
Dawn’s Which Way: Sunset on the Rails
Geriatri’x’ Fotogallery’s Where are We Going?
Suzette’s For CWWC — Deb’s Which Way Challenge
Photo Credit:©️1975-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy a hike/walk in Nature. Admire Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Next Week’s Theme: CWWC: Any Which Way with Autumn Colours
Five days a week as I wait at the bus stop before (with Coleman) school and after school (waiting for Coleman), I watch the Norfolk Southern Trains chug chug chugging up and down the railroad tracks. Coleman loves to watch the trains (he would love to ride in one one day). Sometimes when I am waiting for him to arrive back at the bus stop in the afternoon I’ll capture the Norfolk Southern Trains chug chugging along with my smartphone. Then he’ll watch the train later in the afternoon.
Here is a trio gallery of the Norfolk Southern Trains as they zoom past me standing on the corner.
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Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Enjoy your week and always be observant of your surroundings. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
There are many ways the term Hanging could be interpreted, such as Hanging around (with friends) Hanging Upside down (like a “monkey”), Hanging In (Being persistent, carrying on under difficult circumstances), or perhaps used as in the expression How’s it Hanging. These types of Hanging are totally different and distinct from Debbie’s example of Curtains Hanging or any other object Hanging.
I’m going to show you some “Hanging” examples of “Like Mother … Like Son.”
Coleman’s Mom’s version of Hanging …
Coleman’s version of Hanging …
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Debbie’s One Word Sunday-Hanging
Photo Credit: ©️2009-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. (First image-Senior Photo)
God Bless. Have a funtastic time Hanging around this week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Can you guess whose status will be changing? You might ask what kind of status … let me tell you. There will be a status change in our family. Why? Whose status is changing? Coleman’s status is changing hurt by. How is Coleman’s status changing in our family? Can you guess?
These are the reasons Coleman and I were waiting in the Waiting Room.
We had to wait for the right time, so Coleman could see the images of his Baby Sister.
It was difficult for them to get a really good shot of her head. She was facing downward.
You may have figured out Coleman’s status change in the family by the images. If not, Coleman is excited to become a Big Brother.
Debbie’s Six Word Saturday-2025.04.10
Photo Credit: 2025 Deb L. Waters via Piedmont Medical Imaging … All Rights Reserved.
Location: Third Floor: Atrium Health Women’s Care OB/GYN; Rock Hill, South 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.
A couple of weeks ago I showed you a couple of images from a Waiting Room. This week I am continuing with Pull up a Seat (In a Waiting Room) #2. You may view the first Waiting Room post here.
Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 40
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Atrium Health Women’s Care Piedmont OB/GYN; Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Take Care of yourself. Have a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Dan from No Facilities hosts Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge each week beginning on Mondays with a new theme each week. Dan is doing an excellent job since taking over the challenge and is keeping it fresh and alive continuing Cee’s legacy. This week Dan has chosen the theme of Subjects Framed by Nature. He has given examples of doors, windows, bridges, and more that subjects can be used to be framed.
Here are my entries …
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Dan’s Fun Photo Challenge-Subjects Framed by Nature
Photo Credit:©️2022-2025 Deb L. Waters & Nornal H. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Have a funtastic rest of your week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Hope to see y’all on Friday with the Which Way Challenge (CWWC). The theme for this week will be … Which Way Challenge (CWWC): Any type of Rails, Runways, Elevators, or Hot Air Balloons.
Judy from Life Lessons blog hosts a weekly photo challenge called The Numbers Game. This week’s number is 214. Her instructions for playing along are listed below …
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 under that number and include a link to your blog in Judy’s 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.
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Here are my entries …
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Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
In the afternoons Coleman enjoys being outdoors and often Pulls Up a Seat on our Home’s Porch railing which would scare his mom half to death if she was at Home. Luckily for him when he chooses to Pull Up a Seat like in the images below his mom is at work and NOT at Home. This week’s post is also being linked with Debbie’s Six Word Saturday and One Word Sunday Challenges.
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Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 39
Debbie’s Six Word Saturday-2025.09.27
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Home; Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Take Care. Have a wonderful weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Autumn’s first Skywatch Friday for 2025. A bit of cloudy skies today with severe thunderstorms expected to occur all weekend.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stay Dry. Stay Safe. Enjoy your weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
This week Terri is challenging us to display images of Waterfalls and/or Fountains we have seen. In our area we do not have any really huge waterfalls, but I have managed to visit a few smallish ones and fountains around the Carolinas.
Here are my entries … click on each image to enlarge.
Terri’s Sunday Stills-Fountains and Falls
Photo Credit:©️2017-2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy Nature. Have a funtastic weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Dan from No Facilities hosts Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge each week beginning on Mondays with a new theme each week. Dan is doing an excellent job since taking over the challenge and is keeping it fresh and alive continuing Cee’s legacy. This week Dan has chosen the theme of Subjects Framed by Things. He has given examples of doors, windows, bridges, and more that subjects can be used to be framed.
Here are my entries …
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Dan’s Fun Photo Challenge-Subjects Framed by Things
Photo Credit:©️1979 -2025 Deb L. Waters & Nornal H. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Have a funtastic rest of your week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Hope to see y’all on Friday with the Which Way Challenge (CWWC). The theme for this week will be … Which Way Challenge (CWWC): Any Which Way (Your Choice).
Welcome back to another Which Way Challenge (CWWC). This week I have chosen Any Which Way with Tunnels and/or Underpasses (Ways under Bridges or Trestles) for this week’s theme. The Which Way can be any path, sidewalk, trail, or road as long as the Which Way is clearly discernible. For further information regarding the Which Way Challenge (CWWC) feel free to check out the home page here.
Here are my Which Ways entries:
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Thank you to those who have participated and supported the Which Ways Challenge. I appreciate y’all sharing your Which Ways with us.
For an idea of other’s Which Ways from this past week’s challenge, be sure to click on the following links below.
Brian’s People (here and there)
TGeriatri’x’’s People Unaware
Two-sisters Blog’s Taswegian1957’s CWWC 2025: Capturing People Unawares
Suzette’s For Deb’s CWWC – People Here and There
Dawn’s Wat Yarn Buddhist Monks
Dan’s From Fair to Fair
Ritva’s The Art of Urban Exploration
Photo Challenge:©️2017-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
God Bless. Have a fantastically fun weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday- 10 September 2025
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Take Care of Yourself. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
This week Dan of No Facilities, the host for the Fun Foto Challenge has chosen to continue with the theme of hobby/hobbies for us to continue show images of our hobbies we enjoy doing. This theme gives us a wide range of ideas about what we would like to post.
Last week I shared my hobbies of photography and hiking. I was glad to see some of Dan’s hiking adventures in his post this week. This week I’m displaying images of two different types of hobbies I enjoy.
The first one is my favourite, that of reading. I don’t normally have photos of my reading or of what I’m reading, however, I did find a few in my archives that should demonstrate sufficiently.
The second on here is one I enjoy, but haven’t had much time for lately. It is one that requires a vast amount of time on the computer or out and about in family history libraries, cemeteries, reunions, or genealogical conferences. Have you guessed yet what this hobby might be? If you guessed Genealogy you would be absolutely correct. I love researching and finding out more and more about my ancestors and our family history.
Dan’s Fun Foto (CFFC)-Photos of Your Hobby Part 2
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Photo Credit:©️2021-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Have a funtastic rest of your week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Hope to see y’all on Friday with the Which Way Challenge (CWWC). The theme for this week will be … Which Way Challenge (CWWC): Any Which Way with Tunnels and/or Underpasses (Ways under Bridges or Trestles).
Judy from Life Lessons blog hosts a weekly photo challenge called The Numbers Game. This week’s number is 212. Her instructions for playing along are listed below …
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 under that number and include a link to your blog in Judy’s 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.
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Here are my entries …
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Photo Credit:©️2018-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
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
Desktop Screensaver
& iPhone Personal Focus
From My Apple iPhone 16 Pro:
Reading Focus
Hiking Focus
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Clare’s Share Your Desktop-September
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 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.
Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Greenway Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Quiet Moments can be found in many different and wonderful ways and places. It does not matter where you are, there can always be times for quiet moments.
In the featured image Coleman enjoying some quiet moments communicating in his own way with a horse.
“Let a horse whisper in your ear and breathe on your heart. You will never regret it.”
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Quiet Stillness Brings Peace and Calmness to the Soul like the peace and calmness felt when by a river.
“In the stillness of quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.”
— Howard Thurman
And then Quietly Moments can be found relaxing in a rocking chair …
“Finding some quiet time in your life, I think, is hugely important.”
Mariel Hemingway
Ritva’s Lens-Artists Challenge #364 – Quiet Moment
Photo Credit:©️2023-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Spend time communing with nature. Find some time for Quiet Moments through out your week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
John’s Cell Pic Sunday-2025.14.09
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Settings: f1.9 • 1/67s • 30mm • ISO80
Location: Greenway Stables; Greenway Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Photo Credit:©️2022 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens and Altura Wide Angle Aspherical Fisheye for Canon Attachment.
Location: Dairy Barn Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Debbie’s One Word Sunday-Together
God Bless. May your life be filled with love and joy. Have a marvellous week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
In a medical center waiting room while we wait for Coleman’s mom to finish with her appointment.
The Waiting room seating was minimal, but sufficient for daily needs.
It turned out she had to schedule an appointment with a different doctor. The one she was scheduled to see was not available. Her new appointment will be next week while Coleman is in school, so we will not be accompanying her.
Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 37
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location Piedmont Medical Center; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Take Care of yourself. Have a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Welcome back to another Which Way Challenge (CWWC). This week I have chosen Any Which Way Capturing People Unaware for this week’s theme. The Which Way can be any path, sidewalk, trail, or road as long as the Which Way is clearly discernible. For further information regarding the Which Way Challenge (CWWC) feel free to check out the home page here.
Here are my Which Ways entries:
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Thank you to those who have participated and supported the Which Ways Challenge. I appreciate y’all sharing your Which Ways with us.
For an idea of other’s Which Ways from this past week’s challenge, be sure to click on the following links below.
Brian’s Going up
TGeriatri’x’’s Which Way With Steps And Ladder
Dawn’s Which Way: Steps Inside and Outside the Library
Suzette’s For Deb’s —CWWC Which Way Challenge
Next week theme will be … Which Way Challenge (CWWC): Any Which Way with Tunnels and/or Underpasses (Ways under Bridges or Trestles)
Photo Challenge:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: River Link Greenway Trail; Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a fantastically fun weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
I had planned a different post for this week’s Thursday Doors, but then I realized this Thursday is 09.11. I therefore, decided to delay that post until next week and chose instead to Remember our Fallen Heroes from that fateful day on 09.11.2001.
I will never forget that horribly tragically devastating day of loss when 2,977 innocent lives were taken at the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, and on Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Remembering the 343 firefighters, 60 police officers, 8 paramedics, and thousands of civilians, each one someone’s parent, sibling, friend, or child.
I Remember the Lives Lost.
I Remember the Sacrifices Made.
I Remember the Heroes Who Answered the Call.
I Will Never Forget.
I am thankful for our Firefighters, Police Officers, Paramedics, and the many Volunteers that serve to keep our communities safe. Thank you for your dedication and commitment to serve. Thank you for the kindness you demonstrate to everyone, especially the kindness shown to my grandson by several firefighters and police officers.
These were taken at North 321 Volunteer Fire Department in Lincolnton, North Carolina.
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Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Location: North 321 Volunteer Fire Department; Lincolnton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a fantastic weekend. Hope to see y’all on Friday for the Which Way Challenge. This week the Which Ways will be CWWC: Any Which Way Capturing People Unaware. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
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Fandango’s One Word Challenge-Stable
Mama Cormier’s Thursday Trios-2025.09.11
Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion
Location: Greenway Horse Stables; Greenway Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. May you have a Stable of Love, Friendship, and Joy. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Admiration
Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday- 10 September 2025
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Greenway Stables; Greenway Farm & Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy all of Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
What is a StoryWalk? I’ve seen signs like these along other trails in other Greenways, however, I was not previously aware that they were apart of what is considered a StoryWalk.
A StoryWalk is an interactive activity that combines reading with physical activity by displaying pages from a children’s book along a trail.
Using pages from a deconstructed children’s book, a story is displayed along trails or walking paths on poster boards, attached to fences, or encased in outdoor frames. Pages are laminated, attached to signs or podium-style boxes and are accompanied by activity prompts and questions encouraging people to walk to find the next page.
StoryWalks are a fun and innovative tool to engage young readers and encourage activities that build early literacy skills like reading, writing, talking, singing, and playing.
The Cramerton StoryWalk is a permanent installation located along the Goat Island Greenway.
It featuring pages from a children’s picture book displayed on posts and combines reading with outdoor activity for families.
The installation of the StoryWalk was made possible through a grant from the Gaston Association of Realtors.
The StoryWalk concept was created by Anne Ferguson of Montpelier, Vermont, and developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Apple iPhones 16 Pro Max
Location: StoryWalk; River Link Greenway Trail; Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Dale host the weekly challenge The Cosmic Photo Challenge with a different theme each week. This week’s theme is Summer Fun.
The main Summer Funtime this summer that was different than most any other time were the Summer Concerts the Town of Cramerton held at the end of each month. This was a time to gather downtown to enjoy some fantastic music, visit with others within the community, and basically have a funtastic experience.
Another part of Coleman’s Summer Funtime is visiting different playgrounds. However, this activity is not reserved for just Summertime.
How about some Water Funtime that was included in Coleman’s Summertime Funtime …
Now to we are almost to the end of our Summertime Review so let’s look at one of Coleman’s favourite things to do … Playing in the Sand.
And Finally last, but not least, Coleman’s ultimate Funtime activity all year long (not just Summertime) and that is hiking. He enjoys hiking out in the woods amongst nature anytime he possibly can get outdoors.
Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge-Summer Fun
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
The blue Wiggly lines represent rivers and lakes in our area. The floor map drawings showing the Wiggly Waggling lines are on the floor inside Confluence which is run by the Catawba Riverkeepers.
Debbie’s One Word Sunday-Wiggly
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion and Ultra Wide Cameras
Location: Confluence; Downtown Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Wiggle Waggle if you please. Getting your Wiggly Waggle on might just be fun and bring smiles and laughter. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Several times when Coleman and I our hiking at various locations we venture across a Green Anole.
Coming across this Green Anole we stopped to admire his view …
… of the specular reflections …
… scattering across the Catawba River …
… from a bridge in Westminster Park.
Photo Credit:©️2022 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Apple iPhones 13 Pro
Location: Bobby Adam’s Trail; Westminster Park; Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Good Day! As I right this this evening it is trying to rain, we’ve seen the dark clouds rolling in, heard the thunder banging like drums overhead, but yet to see the rain. I am thankful for the lovely sunshine we enjoyed today.
It was such a beautiful day and we hadn’t been out and about for the past week with all our on again off again thunderstorms; therefore, it was an excellent day to wander down to the river for a bit of hiking and Coleman playtime in the sandy river banks. Coleman is fascinated by the rippling effects of the water when he throws wood into the river.
I decided to capture his water ripples in black and white thereby linking this post to Jez’s Water Water Everywhere, Debbie’s One Word Sunday-Repeat and Monochrome Monday.
Debbie’s One Word Sunday-Repeat
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #277
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: South Fork Catawba River; Riverside Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Take a hike/walk out in Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
This week Leanne is hosting the Monochrome Madness challenge. She has chosen a theme of Movement to spark our interest and inspire our creativity.
Here are my selections for the challenge …
We arrive at the Town’s concert early not just to obtain our choice seats, but also to allow Coleman to run around with friends and burn off excess excitement and energy prior to the start of the concert events.
Coleman enjoys rolling down the slight hill in our Centennial Center Park.
He was challenging a friend to hop on one foot and she was trying to show him how to do cartwheels. They had a fun time playing together last Friday evening.
Before long it was time for the Rick Hubbard’s Kazoobie Kazoo Kids Show. Rick was an outstanding guest musician entertaining the audience and involving the kids in attendance in his show. Here he is playing both a banjo and a Kazoo while entertaining everyone in attendance.
The second event for the evening was a Concert by the Caleb Davis Band. Prior to any show the band warms up making sure their sound system is working properly and their instruments are properly tuned and ready for the show.
Leanne’s Monochrome Madness #41-Movement
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV filter attachment.
Location: Centennial Center; Downtown Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy Nature. Capture the beauty all around you. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Dan from No Facilities is the host for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. He is doing an amazing job guiding us with his theme prompts keeping this challenge alive. His theme for this week is Time of Day-Evening.
The selections I chose were all taken at a recent town concert from early evening to mid-evening in Cramerton, North Carolina. The Town held a Back to School Kids Show and Concert. I discussed the Kids Show in my Six Word Saturday post you can check out by clicking here. For this CFFC post I’m mainly sharing scenes from the Evening’s Concert featuring the Caleb Davis Band.
The Caleb Davis with the Caleb Davis Band has an impressive musical background and training. According to his Facebook profile Caleb plays a wide range of musical genres and toured as a sideman with numerous Country, Gospel, and R&B acts. Around 2009 he formed the Caleb Davis Band with his long-time friend Justin Morehead. They have been working to form their own signature sound and groove.
Coleman and I only managed to stay for the beginning portion of the Concert featuring the Caleb Davis Band. Even though their background information states that they play a wide range of genres, the music we heard the band playing lean more towards the heavy metal genre style of music. That style of music is definitely not what I consider my favourite genre of music. It was so loud and blaring Coleman was covering his ears, it was extremely difficult to listen. After leaving the concert, the volume was so loud we could still hear it from our house several blocks away. Their musical style may be fine for some who like that type of music, however, we will not be listening to it again.
Dan’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC)-Evening
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV filter attachment.
Location: Centennial Center; Downtown Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Enjoy the rest of your week. Hope to see y’all on Friday with the Which Way Challenge (CWWC). We will be discovering Which ways on a cloudy or stormy day for this Friday’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC). Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Rick Hubbard’s Great American Kid Show was the pre-show for Friday night’s Concert Series in Cramerton, North Carolina on August 15th.
Rick Hubbard has performed nationwide in country, rock, folk, and jazz bands.
He’s performed across the USA as a stand-up comedian in clubs, colleges, and cruise ships.
His family entertainment show, “The Kazoobie Kazoo Show” has appeared at festivals, events, theaters, and resorts, including Disney World, The Seattle International Children’s Festival,
and The Kennedy Center.
In this show every kid gets a chance to be on stage, and for the grand finale, everyone gets a free kazoo and joins Rick’s marching kazoo band. It’s Kazoobie!
Rick Hubbard puts on a show in Centennial Center entertaining kids and adults alike. He believes in KAOS. What does he mean by Kaos?
Rick plays two guitars, a banjo, and a kazoo not all at the same time, but sometimes more than one at once. He is a talented entertainer who interacts effortlessly with his audience involving them in his show.
Cramerton’s kids being apart of his Great American Kids Show …
While Rick is entertaining kids and adult audiences he is also educating them in word meanings, guiding them through his music about being friends and following directions.
In the last part of this Rick Hubbard’s Great American Kids Show he informs everyone about what a Kazoo is, where it is made, and how best to play a Kazoo.
Every kid in attendance received a free Kazoo they could keep after playing them as part of the show’s Grand Finale Kazoo Band.
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Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. No unauthorized use of any images are permitted without the express consent of the author (me).
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV filter attachment.
Location: Centennial Center; Downtown Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a funtastic weekend. Enjoy the great outdoors. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
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
Desktop Screensaver
From My Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max:
Focus
Personal Focus
Reading Focus
Hiking Focus
Click on each image for enlarged viewing.
Clare’s Share Your Desktop-August
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL filter attachments.
God Bless. Having a Wonderful Week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Welcome back to another Which Way Challenge (CWWC). This week I have chosen Any Which Way (Your Choice) for this week’s theme. The Which Way can be any path, sidewalk, trail, or road as long as the Which Way is clearly discernible. For further information regarding the Which Way Challenge (CWWC) feel free to check out the home page here.
Here are my Which Ways entries:
Coleman hiking on the Disc Golf Trail at Goat Island Park and Greenway.
Thank you to those who have participated and supported the Which Ways Challenge. I appreciate y’all sharing your Which Ways with us.
For an idea of other’s Which Ways from this past week’s challenge, be sure to click on the following links below.
Brian from Bushboys World’s Shadows (show the way)
TGeriatrix from Geriatri’x’ Fotogallery’s Which Way with shadows
Judy from Life Lessons’s For Deb’s Which Way Challenge with Shadows
Sandy from Out of My Write Mind’s Any Way Will Do Just Fine
Heidi from writestuff4u2c.com’s Shadows and/or silhouettes, Monochrome Madness #40 – Backlighting
Pepper from HeavensSunshine’s Deep Into a Tunnel
Dawn from The Day After’s Back Road Silhouette in BnW
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL filter attachments .
Locations: Disc Golf Trail; Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Take a Hike/Walk. Enjoy Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with e. I appreciate y’all very much.
Monochrome Madness
Hi-ho, hi-ho, It’s off to school He goes.
Hi-ho, hi-ho, It’s off to the Bus-stop He goes.
Hi-ho, hi-ho, It’s off for the First day He goes.
Hi-ho, hi-ho, Waiting at the Bus-stop We Wait.
Hi-ho, hi-ho, And at the Bus-stop We Wait.
Hi-ho, hi-ho, We Wait and Wait …
Hi-ho, hi-ho, We Wait; Oh it’s coming … Bye Grandma.
Leanne’s Monochrome Madness
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a funtastic rest of your week and weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
This morning a flatbed tractor trailer came to deliver a pallet of wood to the house across the road which is be renovated from the inside out. Coleman with his natural curiosity and helpful nature decided to investigate. When the truck driver was done with his delivery he began to toss straps across the flatbed trailer to tie down the rest of his load. As I stood watching, Coleman thought he needed some assistance and proceeded to cross the street and give his willing assistance in fastening the straps from the other side of the truck hooking them together as the driver instructed. The truck driver was polite and good natured willing to allow Coleman to assist him and show him kindness.
Guess I got carried away experimenting with a few effects for the image. I’m leaving y’all with a collage of Coleman being a good assistant.
One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-August 2025
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Photo Processing done with PS Express (Mobile version) & Pixlr
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a terrific rest of your week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Dan from No Facilities is the host for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. He is doing an amazing job guiding us with his theme prompts keeping this challenge alive. His theme for this week is Time of Day-Afternoon. I am combining this week’s challenge with Sunny Sunday, Weekend Sky, Judy’s Numbers Game #85-207, and Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #275.
Let’s start off today by admiring our Sunday Afternoon Weekend Sky …
It was wonderful to enjoy an amazing afternoon with beautiful Skies after so many rainy days and with more rain expected.
Now on to capturing Coleman’s many antics and expressions as he meanders here and there through Goat Island Park and Greenway.
There is more to share of our adventurous Sunny Sunday afternoon, however, I’ll wait for Friday’s Which Way Challenge to share them. This Friday I am allowing y’all to choose your own Which Ways you’d like to share with us.
Dan’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC)-Time of Day_Afternoon
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #275
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL Filter attachments.
Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a funtastic week. Get Outdoors and enjoy Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
This week I am combining the Lens-Artist Photo Challenge with Terri’s Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge .
As Coleman and I walked through the woods and around the newly renovated playground at Goat Island Park and Greenway, I noticed all the lines and patterns in the equipment along with all the shades of tan, beige, and every shade of light brown imaginable.
The slide on this playground was once green, and very much broken after Hurricane Helene. It took months and months of waiting for a new slide to arrive and installation to be complete. The months and months of waiting due to delays upon delays was difficult and disappointing for the children (you know how impatient children of all ages can be). It doesn’t matter whether you call the new slide tan or beige or whatever floats your boat, it only matters that the children once again have a slide to play on.
Looking carefully at the slide and playground equipment one may notice all the curvy lines all forming patterns in various aspects of the equipment.
Leaving the playground for a short walk we encounter more tan, beige, & light brown as well as some interesting lines and patterns.
Can you see all the lines, patterns, and various shades of beige, tan, and light brown? This afternoon was a pleasant and delightful afternoon spent with Coleman and his exuberance.
Terri’s Sunday Stills: Monthly Colour Challenge -August_Tan, Beige, and/or peachy shades
Lens-Artists Challenge #359 – Tools of Photo Composition: Lines, Colors, and Patterns
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL Filter attachments.
Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Get Outside and enjoy the beauty in Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Welcome back to another Which Way Challenge (CWWC). This week I have chosen Any Which Way with Shadows and/or silhouettes for this week’s theme. Shadows can be on any path, sidewalk, trail, or road as long as the Which Way is clearly discernible. For further information regarding the Which Way Challenge (CWWC) feel free to check out the home page here.
Here are my entries …
Coleman’s Shadows/Silhouettes
Taken at Goat Island Park and Greenway at the end of the Riverlink Greenway Trail located in Cramerton, North Carolina.
Trees and their Leaves Shadows
The above Shadows were captured at the Lake Haigler Entrance of the Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
Thank you to all who have supported and contributed to the Which Way Challenge this past week or at any time. Be sure to check out other Which Ways by clicking on the links below.
Geriatri’x’ Fotogallery’s Up And Down?
Brian from Bushboys World’s Lines (show the way)
Dawn from The Day After’s Way of the Fence Line
Pepper from HeavensSunshine’s A Straight and Crooked Path
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1-2) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL filter attachments; 3-7) Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Locations: As Stated Above
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy a hike/walk in Nature. Admire Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Look all around, there’s Brown everywhere you look out in nature. From the ground, to boardwalks, and even to the varying kinds of animals which roam around in the woods, in farms, and even in many greenways. Here are a few examples of Brown I have discovered.
Click on each image for enlarged views.
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Brown
Photo Credit:©️2019-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Explore Nature. Capture its Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography 