Category: #GetOutdoors

2024 CWWC/CPC: July — Week 3

Pathways and/or Passages

According the Oxford Dictionary, a Pathway is a path which you can walk along or a route you can take and a Passage is a way of exit or entrance; the act or process of moving through, under, over, or past something on the way from one place to another.

This week I am combining Cee’s Which Way with Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge doing it My Way. I have chosen to post pathways and/or passages at Marriott’s Great America in Santa Clara, California.

Entrance to
Marriott’s Great America

Aerial Views of

Pathways at

Marriott’s Great America

Passage to the Rides
Marriott’s Great America

Pathways Around the Shops

and Places to

Pull Up a Seat

at Marriott’s Great America

On the Pathway
with Warner Bros.
Looney Tunes Characters
& My Mom

Cee’s Which Way Challenge

Which Way My Way

Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge

Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2024-Week 28

Throwback Thursday

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

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35mm 

Location: Marriott’s Great America, Santa Clara, California, USA 

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

2024 Thursday Doors & Monday Window #3

1933 Duesenberg

Torpedo Sedan

California
20 Grand
Model SJ
8 Cylinders

Dan’s Thursday Doors

Ludwig’s Monday Window 

Throwback Thursday

Photo Credit:©️1980 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved. 

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35 mm

Location: California, USA

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

2024 Judy’s Numbers Game #30 — 151

For Judy’s “The Numbers Game #30”Today’s number is 151. 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 my 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.

California Adventures

Since I have been working on digitizing my dad’s old slides more than photographing outdoors in our extreme heat, I decided to share some of my dad’s slides and my memories from our California adventures with all y’all.

Lombard Street
San Francisco, California
San Francisco Bay Bridge
San Francisco, California
Turn Off to PCH 1
Doyce Eileen Waters
( My mom) and Myself
Redwood Sequoia Sempervirens
Washed Ashore at Crescent City
During The Christmas Flood Of
1964. Placed Here At The Gateway
To The Redwood Empire.
Nornal Hule Waters
(My dad)
Sequoia National Park
Three Rivers, Tulare County, California
Centennial Stump
Sequoia National Forest
Sequoia National Forest
Campground
Princess
Sequoia Sempervirens
Coastal California Redwood
Sequoia National Forest

Judy’s Numbers Game #30-151

Throwback Thursday

Photo Credit:©️1979 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved; #6 of my dad taken by Fred Giese ( family friend) with my dad’s camera.

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35mm

Locations: 1-5) San Francisco, California; 6-9) Sequoia National Forest Campground; Three Rivers, Tulare County, California, USA

God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. Sharing memories are precious and a delight to behold. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Wordless Wednesday: 07.17

Catalina Island

Catalina Island
Catalina Island is located off the coast of Southern California a mere twenty-two (22) miles south of Los Angeles.

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

Throwback Thursday

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #227

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

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35mm

Location: Santa Catalina Island; View from Los Angeles, California, USA 

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

2024 OWS: July 14 — Yellow

For this week Debbie with Travel with Intent is asking us to show our Yellow for One Word Sunday.

Here are my Yellow for this OWS Challenge …

Yellow Flowers
in April 1979
Marriott’s Great America
Santa Clara, California
Rudbeckia hirta
AKA Black-eyed Susan
In July 2024
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Fort Mill, South Carolina

Debbie’s One Word Sunday-Yellow

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: 1) ©️1979 Nornal H. Waters 2) ©️2024 Larry Underwood … All Rights Reserved.

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

2024 SYD: July

Share Your Desktop

Clare from Clare’s Cosmos is asking all of us once again to share our desktops. All you need to do is share the photo (not your actual desktop) you have set as your wallpaper. Provide whatever information you desire about the photo. Use a pingback, or post a link to her blog here so she knows you’ve joined in on the fun. Then, enjoy sharing the fun around.

Here are my July Desktops:

From my Laptop:

Wallpaper:

Catawba River
near the
Great Falls Dam
Great Falls, South Carolina

Screensaver:

Coleman
My ❤️
My Grandson

From my Smartphone

(iPhone 14 Pro Max)

Hiking Focus:

Nornal Hule Waters (my dad)
and
Larry Dean Waters (my brother)
taken in
Great Falls, South Carolina
in July 1963.

Television Focus:

Hawksbill Turtle
Ocean Conservancy

Personal Focus:

Coleman
playing with his
Titan Magnetic Tiles

Reading Focus:

Coleman
in his
Camouflage Flag Shirt

Come on along and join the fun. Share one or more, it doesn’t matter whether the photos are from your desktop, laptop, tablet, or your smartphone wallpaper(s).

Clare’s Share Your Desktop-July 2024

Photo Credit: 1 & 3)©️1963 Nornal H. Waters (my dad); 2 & 4-6) ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. Looking forward to seeing y’all’s desktop photos. Have a wonderful week. I appreciate y’all very much.

Floral Macro Monochrome Monday

Sunflower

Helianthus annuus |

Common Sunflower ‘Titan’

Girasol 
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Fort Mill, South Carolina

The ‘Titan’ sunflower, as the name suggests, is a giant annual sunflower variety with an extra thick stem, supporting huge, alternating leaves, and a massive flower head that can reach 16-22 inches across! Plus Titan sunflowers can grow to heights of 12-14 feet! Blooms from July to September. Sunflowers attract a myriad of pollinators including bees, birds, butterflies and many others as well.

Macro Monday 

Monochrome Monday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

Leigha’s Sunny Sunday Challenge

Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2024 Week 28

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