#Friendship – Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography

2025 Monday Portrait: 20 October

Collared peccary

My longtime friend had an unexpected and seemingly unusual visitor around her garbage cans the other night. A visitor she had not witnessed before in her neighbourhood, nor had any of her neighbours.

What was this unusual visitor you might ask? It was the creature pictured here known by many as the Javelina. In Arizona the Collared Peccaries are known by their Spanish name Javelina. What are Collared Peccaries or Javelinas? You might think they are some type of pig looking at their stout and pig-like bodies, but they are not pigs.

In fact, they are wild, pig-like mammals common in Arizona deserts, woodlands, and grasslands. Javelinas are known for their social behaviour and adaptation to urban environments. Even though they are primarily herbivores, feeding on prickly pear cactus, mesquite beans, and other desert plants, they will also eat insects and are known for raiding garbage cans for easy food access.

Javelinas have sharp teeth and can be aggressive if they feel threatened. It’s best to keep dogs (pets) away from areas that Javelinas might wander. They can be an enormous nuisance to homeowners due to their attraction to garbage and gardens. Make sure to never feed a Javelina. Javelinas are most active during the twilight hours, specifically between dusk and dawn.

Javelinas can be found in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, through Mexico and south all the way down to Argentina. Javelina live in desert washes, saguaro and palo verde forests, oak woodlands and grasslands. Houses that are close to washes will likely have javelina in the neighborhood and are a usual sighting in Tucson, Arizona. [My friend lives in Maricopa, Pinal County, Arizona which is located within the Sonoran Desert a short distance south of Phoenix.]

Monday Portrait

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

2025 Cell Pic Sunday — 05 October

Cramerton’s Story Walk

with John Steiner

Good Day Everyone! Welcome to my post for John’s Cell Pic Sunday. Previously on September 7th I ran a post introducing the Story Walk that was coming to Cramerton. At that time the Story Walk posts were in the ground waiting for the Story Walk story to be attached. You may view the original Story Walk post here.

During the following Monday I had an amazing opportunity to meet up with John from Journeys with Johnbo blog and his lovely wife, Lynn. We met at the entrance to Goat Island Park and Greenway and walked the trail to the Riverlink Greenway Trail. We walked the trail together enjoying the time together and discovering each story aspect along the Story Walk trail.

Walk along with us as we visit the Story Walk together. Below are some highlights of the Story Walk.

***Cramerton’s Story Walk***
***with John*** ***& Lynn***

Click on each image to enlarge.

Thank you John and Lynn for meeting up with me and letting me show you What Everyone Should See (LAPC #367). I really enjoyed our visit together.

I am linking up with John from Journeys with Johnbo blog’s CellPic Sunday. I am also going to link a day early to Judy’s Numbers Game.

John’s Cell Pic Sunday-2025.10.05

Joanne’s Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #367

Judy’s Numbers Game #93-215

Photo Credit:©️2022 Deb L. Waters … Al Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Story Walk; Riverlink Greenway Trail; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

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

2025 Monday Window —New Home Construction

Kitty by a Window – 2
— AI creation by PR

Good friends of our are having their dream home built from scratch, the ground up.

They have been monitoring the construction progress from the beginning being observant and taking note to ensure everything is being done to their satisfaction.

It won’t be much longer, barring complications or inspection delays, before they’ll be able to move in and add their own finishing touches the inside of their new home.

Click on each image to enlarge.

Monday Window

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Location: New Home Location; Elder Residence; Chattanooga, Tennessee, 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 Monday Window: 06.30 (on 07.01)

The Vessel

The Vessel, Created by Thomas Heatherwick and Heatherwick Studio, is an iconic New York City experience designed to be entered and explored. It was built as part of Hudson Yards in Manhattan, New York City, New York. The elaborate honeycomb-like structure rises 150 feet and consists of 154 flights of stairs, 2,500 steps, and 80 landings for visitors to climb. It is the main feature of the 5-acre (2.0 ha) Hudson Yards Public Square.

Monday Window

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Location: The Vessel; 20 Hudson Yards, New York, New York, 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 Share Your World (SYW): 31 March

Di from pensitivity101 hosts Share Your World. Each week she challenges us to answer unique questions about ourselves/ our lives. This week’s questions are about our “firsts” of various objects. Can you remember your “Firsts?”

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Here are this week’s questions:

Can you remember your first camera? The first camera I ever used was one of my dad’s older cameras, an Argus 40 Box Camera. Later on I used a Kodak Instamatic X-15 126 cartridge camera. In high school I bought my first 35 mm camera, a Minolta XG-7 (which I still own). I have been using a Canon EOS Rebel T3i DSLR camera since 2014.
Can you remember when you had your first mobile phone? I didn’t own a mobile phone until, I think, around 2002/3. I believe it was a Motorola similar to the MOTOROLA MC2-41h11 talkabout.
Can you remember your first car. If you don’t drive, can you remember your parent’s car? Before I mention the first car I ever drove/owned let me tell you the first car I remember my dad ever driving. It was a 1949 Ford Tudor 2-door Sedan. [My dad had a model 1949 Tudor Sedan he painted to look exactly like the one he owned at one time.] The first cars I ever drove was a 1962 Ford Galaxie (manual steering) and a 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 Select-a-Shift (all 2-doors). The 1967 Ford Galaxie 500 later became my first car.
What was your first job as an adult? The first job I had after high school was as a nurses aide at Alvarado Convalescent Hospital. ( I took nurse aide training my senior high of high school, however, I didn’t manage too well with the science courses so never became a nurse.)

Gratitude:

“Everyone enjoys being acknowledged and appreciated. Sometimes even the simplest act of gratitude can change someone’s entire day. Take the time to recognize and value the people around you and appreciate those who make a difference in your lives.”
~ Roy T. Bennett

Di’s Share Your World-31 March

God Bless. I’m thankful for each and every one of y’all here on WordPress. I’m thankful for the friendships, interactions, and support. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

Examples of my firsts:

All images free from Google search with copyright attachments in image captions.

2025 Floral Friday: 01.24 —Colouring Flowers #52 (4th for 2025)

“Advice from a sunflower. Be bright, sunny, and positive. Know your roots. Spread seeds of happiness. Rise, shine, and hold your head up high. Keep on growing. Even on the darkest days, stand tall and find the sunlight.”
~ Unknown

“True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time.”
~ Marie Williams Johnstone

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. I am Grateful for each and every one of y’all. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 SYW: January 13th

Still a bit behind, but better late than never. Trying to catch up … too cold (for me) to go hiking. That’s okay, it gives me more time to think and write.

Here are my answers to this week’s questions:

1. Of all the household chores (laundry, dusting, hoovering, washing up, cooking etc) which is your least favourite?

My least favourite household chore tends to be sweeping and dusting. ( Does that count as one? Oops it’s probably two, but go hand in had.) I have allergies to dust, so anything that stirs dust up is put off until absolutely deemed necessary.

2. With food prices going up all the time, do you buy less, find substitutes, or don’t buy at all?

Regardless of food prices, we try to continue buying the food items we prefer and or need. I have always tended to buy store brand labels whenever possible. All store brand products are manufactured by name brand suppliers and most of the time are equal to the brand name labels. My grandson does not like meat unless it’s veggie meat with the exception of tuna. He prefers to eat fruits and vegetables. For any can or frozen fruit and vegetables, I buy store brand products. And yes, they may cost more but we do buy him plenty of fresh fruits. However, we try to buy them when they are on sale.

3. Do you enjoy meals with left overs?

I grew up having leftovers for meals at least once a week. Serving leftovers for meals helps reduce waste and helps reduce stored food in the refrigerator. So, yes, we still have leftovers for meals at least once a week.

4. Do you prefer bagels, crusty bread, or toast?

Let’s add a few more selections like muffins or biscuits. For breakfast, I prefer Bagels and/or Biscuits. I tend to alternate them throwing in toasted Oat Bread for egg sandwiches on occasion. For lunch, if I have bread it is Oat Nut Bread. For Supper, I like to have Biscuits or Crescents depending on what I choose to fix. Some meals I do not eat any bread.

Gratitude:

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”
~ Denis Waitley

Di’s Share Your World-01.13

“Center your thoughts on the magnificent gifts in the present and embrace gratitude.”
-Maree Dee

It appears I threw in an additional gratitude for this post. It never fails to be grateful for all one has, including the friends I’ve made on WP.

2025 FOTD: January 1

Plumeria

Flower of the Day

God Bless. Praying for Cee & Chris. Take Care. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Numbers Game #52 – 173

Variations of 173

Judy from Life Lessons’ invites us to play along with her in her Numbers Game Challenge. Her instructions are simple, just go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find that include that number and post a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day.

Here are my entries for this week’s Numbers Game Challenge:

Judy’s Numbers Game #52-173

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

2024 FOTD: 11.14 — For Cee

Cee, I have loved being apart of all your challenges for the past three years. You have always been encouraging and inspiring with all your challenges, comments, and friendly kindness and support of my (all of our) photography and posts. I’m thinking of you and praying for you.

Here’s a Bouquet of Flowers for You

Cee’s Flower of the Day

One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-November 2024

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Thank you Cee for all your support and encouragement. I have cherished our blogging friendship. Chris, thank you for keeping us informed and taking care of Cee for us. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Thursday Trios: 08.01

Small, Medium, Large

Carol’s Thursday Trios-08.01

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

2024 Weekend Sky: 05.19

Silent Sunday

Look at the Nighttime

Burgeoning Sky Show

Silent Sunday

Hammad’s Weekend Sky #127

Becky’s #SquareRenew-Burgeoning

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

Location: Lancaster, South Carolina, USA

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

A Day Which Will Live in Infamy: December 7, 1941

The day Pearl Harbor, a U. S. Naval Base in Hawaii was attacked in a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service. This attack devastated Pearl Harbor enormously. The United States lost 2,403 Americans, and 1,178 others were seriously wounded. This strike also produced significant naval and military asset losses some of which included battleships and aircraft. The attack on Pearl Harbor was the major factor that impelled the United States to enter World War II.

***Pearl Harbor***
***Remembrance Day***
***December 7, 2023***
*(twitter.com)*

President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that this day would live in ‘infamy.’ This day also noted a significant shift in the global conflict and was a pivotal moment in the History of the United States of America.

Every year on December 7, Pearl Harbor Survivors, veterans, and visitors from all around the world unite together to honour and remember those 2,403 service members and civilians who were killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

It was on August 23, 1994 that the United States Congress designated December 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Each year events are held in remembrance at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial, concluding with a commemoration ceremony on December 7.

This year marks the 82nd Commemoration of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Events were held at the USS Utah, USS Oklahoma, USS Arizona (the Pearl Harbor National Memorial) as well as many other locations around the country.

Many here as well as myself were not alive yet when this attack took place, however its significance still impacts people tremendously.

As a personal note, a friend I knew in the church I grew up in was a Pearl Harbor Survivor. His name is Stuart Hedley. He was my church’s Sunday School Superintendent, an usher, a much loved father, friend, business man, and a much honoured U.S. Navy Veteran having served during World War II, Korean War, and a Pearl Harbor Survivor. He was an active member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and participated in many Veteran ceremonies including Pearl Harbor National Remembrance Day ceremonies. He amongst the many survivors and those who lost their lives that day will forever be remembered in infamy.

Stuart Hedley
Pearl Harbor Survivor
World War I Veteran

For more information on Stuart Hedley and is remembrance of Pearl Harbor click here.

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

Friendship: Do You Have A Close Friend…A Best Friend Who’ll Always Be There?

“A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”
Proverbs 17:17 KJV (King James Version)

The Bible speaks often about friendship and what characteristics qualifies a true friend. Do you have a true friend, a best friend who is always there for you? A good friend is a blessing, but not everyone has one. You may have had one at one time, but life got in the way and you may no longer have one.

“A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”                             

~ Proverbs 18:24 NKJV (New King James Version)

Ever wonder if you are the reason you do not have true friends? I never really gave it much thought. I have online friends, but can’t say they are close friends. I have had work friends, but they were never close friends. I have friends I’ve known since my childhood, but distance limits the closeness of the friendship.

A friend is a person who has a strong liking for or trust in another person. Good friends handle conflict respectfully and respect boundaries. True friends may have differences of opinions, you might upset one another, but they will tell you the truth and let you know if you’ve crossed a boundary or hurt them in any way. Do you have a true friend?

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***Friend***
***Loves***
***at all***
***Times.***
*~ Harvest House Publishers ~*

You might ask what qualities a true good friend should have. The following list are examples of those qualities of a true friend.

They live with integrity….
You can trust them….
“Dependability” is their middle name….
They’re loyal….
They have empathy for others….
They’re good listeners….
Their confidence is contagious….
Spending time with them makes you feel good…. ~http://www.betterup.com~
They understand you all the time…

A best friend is a blessing from God. Is one who will forgives as Christ forgives. Is someone who prays for you continually. Is willing to risk their life for you.

“***A Sweet friendship refreshes the soul.”*** ~***Proverbs*** ***27:9 ~***
*BibleVerseImages.com*

***A good friend***
***is like a***
***four leaf clover,***
***hard to find,***
***blessed to have.***
*~ LetterPile.com ~*

I am thankful for the friends I have regardless of whether they are near or far away. They are all close to my heart and I treasure their friendship.

Thank you God for the friends you have given me, for the sharing & the praying, for the laughter & the encouragement they bring to me. Thank you Lord for their presence in my life. Please watch over them and bring hope and blessings to them. I trust you, Lord, to protect them, comfort them, and surround them with your loving arms. Lord, help me to be a better friend & remind me to pray for them continually. Amen.

God Bless. Thank You! Do not ever forget I appreciate y’all.

Collared peccary

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