Monday Window – 2026 August 03

Kitty by a Window  – 
2 – AI creation by PR
Reminiscing of
Childhood Windows

Sometime when I open Google Photos it displays memories that it thinks I would be interested in seeing. That was the case this past weekend when it wanted me to see the black and white image shown in the second photograph.

Colorized version of a 1960’s photo

In seeing this photo it reminded me of my parents anniversary, they would have been married for seventy-five (75) years on Friday if they’d still been alive. They were married forty-five (45) years when my dad passed in 1996. My mom is also gone now and only memories remain alive.

Original image
uploaded to files via
Wolverine Digital Converter

This is the first house I can remember living in even though it wasn’t the first house my family called home. We moved into this house about 1961. The front window you see would have been the window in my parent’s bedroom. The bedrooms were all on the right side of the house. Mine was in the middle between their’s and my brother’s bedroom.

I lived in this house during my entire childhood elementary school days (Kindergarten through Sixth Grade). It holds so many memories, to many to share. When we walked past the windows behind my mom and dad we’d enter the living room. To me in was a large area we gathered to watch programs on our black and white console television. The kitchen and dining rooms were to the left of the entrance with a door in between that led to the garage. We always sat at the dining table as a family for our meals.

Even the windows of an ordinary house can bring fond memories of happy times of love, laughter, and togetherness.

Monday Window-2026.08.03

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

Numbers Game 2026.07.14 — #132 – #749

Judy from Life Lessons blog hosts a weekly photo challenge called The Numbers Game. This week’s number is 749. 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.

Here are my contributions …

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Judy’s Numbers Game-#132-749

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

God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I look forward to seeing y’all’s pictures for Judy’s Numbers Game. I appreciate y’all very much.

Wordless Wednesday — 2026 July 8th

Roman Pool

Roman Pool
Hearst Castle
San Simeon, California

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Wordless Wednesday-2026.07.08

Photo Credit:©️1979 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35mm

Location: Roman Pool; Hearst Castle; San Simeon, California, USA

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

Ragtag Daily Prompt (RDP) Monday: Laneway — 2026 July 07

Germany

The above image is one my dad took with his Minolta camera while he and my mom visited my brother in Germany.

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Ragtag Daily Prompt (RDP):Monday-Laneway

Photo Credit:©️1979 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35 mm

Location: Frankfurt, Germany

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

Monday Window – 2026 July 06

Kitty by a Window  – 
2 – AI creation by PR
A Slice of
‘Little Denmark’

In 1978, my parents and I took a trip north on the I-5 and switching over to Highway 101. We went up the coast of California to a small Danish-inspired village called Solvang. Solvang is located approximately a half-hour north of Santa Barbara, California. Solvang is known as the “Danish Capital of America.”

Solvang, California

It was founded by Danish immigrants in 1911. The village is prominently known for its authentic half-timbered architecture, iconic windmills, and world-class Danish bakeries. It has a unique offering of a slice of Scandinavian culture blending with the Central California sunshine.

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Monday Window-2026.07.06

Photo Credit:©️1978 Nornal H. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35 mm

Location: Solvang, Santa Barbara County, Santa Ynez Valley, California, USA

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

One Word Sunday (#OWS) —2026 July 05

#Tall

The Gentle Giants

Sequoiadendron giganteum,
aka The Giant Sequoia

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Debbie’s One Word Sunday (#OWS)-Tall

Sunday Trees #644

Photo Credit: ©️1979 Nornal H. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35mm

Location: Hume Lake Campground; Sequoia National Forest; Hume, Fresno, California, USA

God Bless. Be Gentle as the ‘Gentle Giant’. Be Passionate, with soft and nurturing words towards all. Have a fantastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Monday Window – 2026 June 29

Kitty by a Window  –
2 – AI creation by PR

For this week’s Monday Window I went searching through my archives, specifically my dad’s old slides to find an image I might could consider using for today’s post. Well, I found one I sharing with y’all. However, I could not locate any information on the location or history of the place. The only information I could find was that it was taken by my dad in February of 1965.

In Monochrome

It was hard to distinguish the original colours from the digital conversion of my dad’s old slide. The house number is 720, but I have no idea what street it was on, what city or town it was in, or even which state it was located. I know the in February of 1965 we lived in San Diego, California. We visited Tecate, Baja California during this time period as well as other places.

720? February 1965

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Monday Window-2026.06.29

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Photo Credit: ©️1965 Nornal H. Waters … All Rights Reserved .

God Bless. Open up the Window of your mind to unique opportunities for creativity. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Silent Sunday: 2026 June 28

St. Paul’s Church (Paulskirche)
Paulsplatz, central Frankfurt am Main

St. Paul’s Church (Paulskirche)
Frankfurt, Germany in 1979

Silent Sunday-2026.06.28

Photo Credit: ©️1979 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35 mm

Digitized via Wolverine Digital Converter from my dad’s slides.

Location: St. Paul’s Church (Paulskirche); Frankfurt, Germany

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

2026 Thursday Doors: June 25

Bradley Motor Company
Your Friendly Ford Dealer

My dad, Nornal H. Waters, grew up in Great Falls, South Carolina. Before he joined the U.S. Navy he worked for this Ford Dealership in Great Falls. He also worked here again for a couple of years after he married my mom after his service was completed.

Bradley Motor Company
Great Falls Ford Dealership

These images were taken in 1963, by my dad, on a trip home to visit his parents and siblings. Our family had moved to San Diego, California in 1958 when I was 2. This was our first trip back to the Carolinas since moving to California. (I would have been seven (7) years old during this time period.)

Bradley Motor Company
Your Friendly Ford Dealer
Great Falls, South Carolina

Can you name the make and models of all these cars? I’m not sure that I am capable of naming them. For a small town, a population of approximately 2,875 residents, the dealership did a thriving business maintaining the needs of its residents.

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Dan’s Thursday Doors-2026.06.25

Thursday Doors

Throwback Thursday

Photo Credit:©️1963 Nornal H. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Digitization done via Wolverine Digital Converter by Deb L. Waters in 2020.

Location: Bradley Motor Company; 721 Chester Avenue; Great Falls, South Carolina, USA

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

Wordless Wednesday — 2026 June 24

The Nitrolee Dam

Aka Fishing Creek Hydroelectric Station
on the Catawba River
in Great Falls, South Carolina

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Photo Credit:©️1963 Nornal H. Waters (from my dad’s slides) … All Rights Reserved 

Location: Nitrolee Dam; Catawba River; Great Falls, South Carolina, USA

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