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
Benches in a Park
Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 5
Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Be Observant. Show Gratitude. Love to all. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge prompt for this week is Black and White. Looking through this past week’s photos from Coleman and my visit to Goat Island Park and Greenway, I found few that I think would work for this challenge.
Here is what I have chosen for this week’s CPC prompt.
Now to show some of what I took today of Coleman using my new iPhone 16 Pro Max.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1-5) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 6-8) iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: 1-5) Cramerton, North Carolina; 6-8) AT&T Store, Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Coleman and I love to go hiking and whenever I am Willing to go hiking, he is always Willing to put on his hiking boots rearing to go on a hiking adventure. No matter when or where we might venture on our adventures I am usually almost always Willing to bring my Canon along to take photographs of the amazingly beautiful nature surrounding whatever hiking trail we choose to tackle for the day.
Most often than not Coleman and I close to hike in a local Greenway, Nature Preserve, or a State Park. Coleman is always excited and rearing to go out for a hike. He distastes being cooped up indoors. The majority of Greenways or State Parks are filled with Green trees, lawns, and vegetation. It’s like walking through a lush Green forest snapping photographs one by one with my Camera. I often take photographs with my iPhone as well as my Canon.
For this post I am combining several challenges into one post. I Willing chosen to select Photographs with plenty of Green using Green and Hiking as my theme for Judy’s Numbers Game.
Here are the Photographs with Green I am Willing to share with y’all for Judy’s Numbers Game, the RDP prompt of Photograph, Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge of Green, and lastly, but no less important FOWC prompt of Willing.
I trust you have enjoyed seeing the Photographs of the lush Green trees as we hiked the Canal Trail at Landsford Canal State Park I do Willingly captured for your viewing pleasure. Click on any image for an enhanced view. Be sure to take a look at each Photograph Challenge I’ve included to get a look at what others have posted.,
Ragtag Daily Prompt-Photograph
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge-Green
Fandango’s One-Word Challenge—Willing
Photo Credit:©️2022 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 13 Pro Wide Camera
Location: Canal Trail; Landsford Canal State Park; Catawba, 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.
Stormy Clouds Rolling In
The Sky is a wondrous example of how as the weather changes quickly, so can the events in our lives. Be thankful for the good and the bad and remember God is in Control. Just as we need the rain and look forward to sunny days; our lives may seem dreary but blessings abound amongst us. Be thankful for the Rain as well as the Sunshine. Both are needed even if we prefer the good ole sunshiny days of life.
Weekend Sky #142 – February 2nd
Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community & Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stay Warm. Stay Safe. Take Care. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Hey, That’s Not the Train
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Railroad Tracks; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Brian from bushboy.blog is the host for the #LastontheCard challenge. His rules are simple to follow. As per Brian, Your last photo doesn’t have to be on the very last day of the month if you didn’t take any photos on that day. Maybe it was earlier in the month when the last photo was taken.
The rules are simple:
1. Post the last photo on your SD card or last photo on your phone for the 31st or whenever your last photo was taken.
2. No editing – who cares if it is out of focus, not framed as you would like or the subject matter didn’t cooperate.
3. You don’t have to have any explanations, just the photo will do
4. Create a Pingback to this post or link in the comments
5. Use the tags The Last Photo and #LastOnTheCard
Friday, January 31st turned out warm before the rain storms hit in the evening. So Coleman and I took a walk down to Goat Island Park and Greenway. Of course, I had to bring my camera along and not just my smartphone.
Here are my Last photos for January 2025 …
From my iPhone 14 Pro Max
From my Canon EOS Rebel T3i
As an added bonus I thought I would post a comparison of first & last photo for January from my Canon.
Brian’s The Last on the Card-January 2025
Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1) Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max; 2-4) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV filter for Canon.
Location: 1-2 & 4) Goat Island Park and Greenway; 3) Riverside 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.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a Sweet Sensational Weekend filled with love and happiness. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Geometric Shapes
and Patterns at
Andrew Jackson State Park
This being the 31st of January and the last day of the month for Becky’s GeometricJanuary Squares Challenge for 2025, I decided to give you my ultimate finale of Geometric Squares all from Andrew Jackson State Park.
Regardless of where you spend your time at Andrew Jackson State Park you are bound to see a vast selection of geometric shapes and patterns. They could be lines, circles, rectangles, triangles, or columns.
You may see them near the parking lot, at the Meeting House, in the Museum in the building with the office, in and around the school house or within the playground or by the lake. Geometric designs are all over the Park, just be observant and you’ll notice the wide array of different types of geometrics.
For more information about Andrew Jackson State Park and the events and activities it has to offer click here.
Photo Credit:©️2018-2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens; Apple iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max.
Location: Andrew Jackson State Park; Lancaster, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have fun. Get Outdoors. Enjoy Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Welcome back to the Which Way Challenge (CWWC), I’m so glad you are enjoying this challenge. For this week I have decided to let it be your choice, Any Which Way. Just be sure your Which Ways are clearly defined. Remember signs are always welcome in your Which Ways.
My Which Way selections for this week are my grandson, Coleman’s choices for how prefers his Which Ways. They include dirt trails, bridges, and even trees.
Here we are hiking at Anne Springs Close Greenway beginning on North Steele Creek Trail and crossing onto the Blue Star Trail.
We parked at the Dairy Barn Entrance down almost to the Spillway, then ventured onto North Steele Creek Trail for our hiking adventures of the day. After our fill of hiking we eventually wound our hiking around and back up to the Dairy Barn parking lot to go back home.
To learn more about Anne Springs Close Greenway and what all it has to offer click here.
I am grateful for those who shared there Which Ways last week. To view their Which Ways clink on their links below:
Gwh photos2’s CWWC: Stairs, Steps, Ladders – January 24, 2025
Which Way Challenge (CWWC)-Any Which Way
Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 13 Pro
Location: North Steele Creek & Blue Star Trails; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
View from a Greyhound
Shot this scene from a Greyhound bus traveling westbound almost parallel to the I-10 in Westlake, Louisiana on the way to San Antonio, Texas in 2020.
Photo Credit: ©️2020 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max
Location: I-10 bridge (the Calcasieu River Bridge); Westlake, Louisiana, 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.
Dan Antion is the new host for the CFFC (Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge). Participating in the CFFC has always been fun and sometimes challenging for me. Let’s support day and continue our support in the CFFChallenge.
Here are my selections from my archives for Dan’s Ordinal Numbers challenge…
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Judy from Life Lessons Blog hosts The Numbers Game Challenge and invites us all to play along with her. This week’s number is 179.
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 that include that number and post 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.This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below. Here are my contributions to the album.
Here are my 179 photo selections for this week’s Numbers Game.
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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Architectural Bridge Geometrics
The Bridge over the Mississippi River in Vicksburg, Mississippi as seen at night while traveling back from Texas to the Carolinas in 2019. The architectural design is fascinating viewing all the angles, lines, triangles, and squares that were used to construct the bridge. The lighting helps the bridges features stand out in the evening’s darkness.
Photo Credit:©️2019 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone XR
Location: Bridge over the Mississippi River; Mississippi Welcome Center; Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
God Bless. Have a funtastic week. Stay Warm. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Geometric Designs at Sea
Photo Credit:©️2020 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max
Location: International Cruise Terminal; Cozumel, Mexico
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Highland Cow
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Crandall Bowles Children’s Farm; Greenway Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Enjoy the Outdoors. Ready for Spring yet? I am. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Just found out about Jude’s Bench Challenge through Sue’s post Lone bench with a view….reprised. As I looked through my photo archives, I realized I have an abundance of Bench photos to select for this challenge.
My first Bench photos for Jude’s challenge are from the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, North Carolina. I took my grandson, Coleman there in 2021 for a fun day together. I am also linking this post to XingfuMama’s Pull Up a Seat Challenge.
Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 4
Photo Credit: ©️2021 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max
Location: N.C. Transportation Museum; Spencer, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Take Care. Have some fun. Enjoy your day. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Don’t Mock Me …
Admire My Lines …
While I Keep Eating
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Front Porch; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Cloudscapes
Passing in the Night
Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stay Warm. Stay Safe. Take Care. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Photo Credit:©️2020 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max
Location: Room Balcony; Caribbean’s Enchantment of the Seas Cruise Ship; Caribbean Sea; Gulf of Mexico; Near Cozumel, Mexico
God Bless. Travel through Books, On Land or Seas. Enjoy an Adventure. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Yellow Zinnias
Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Gardens; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Let the Sunshine. Take Care. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
“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
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.
Coleman’s
Hot Wheels
Doors
1993 Hot Wheels Oldsmobile 442 W-30 72mm was made as a replica of the car from the Warner Brothers movie Demolition Man.
The Hot Wheels Olds 442 shown here was imprinted ©️1993 Warner Thailand and the signature Hot Wheels®️. It was originally bought for my younger son and now Coleman enjoys playing with it.
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Number 0ne Hundred Seventy-Eight
For lack of taxing my brain and picking a Number from a proverbial hat, I chose to play along with Judy Dykstra-Brown’s Numbers Game of 178.
Hence, here are my 178 photo selections:
God Bless. Stay Warm. Stay Safe. Be adventurous. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Winter Weather Advisory predictions are for Snow to hit our area tonight.
Apple’s Weather app shows advisory, but conveys no Snow.
I’m Content to watch the Weather from indoors …
The Weather Channel’s app is in a Conundrum … it’s flip flopping to and fro.
Snow … Only Cloudy and Freezing Cold … Snow … Cold Wind Chills as low as 5° below zero … Snow
I Look outside … I see light Snow flurries
I’m Content to Remain where it’s Warm …
It is a conundrum wondering why “Weatherman” can’t figure it out.
A Conundrum wondering why Weather apps cannot agree …
Channel 9 News most accurate … Light Snow Flurries in the Piedmont, Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina.
Stepping Outside … What do I See?
Light Snow Flurries … Snow on porch railings … patch of Snow on car.
I’m Content with enjoying Snow from afar …
No conundrum in my mind any longer …
I believe what I see and feel …
I’m Content with Snow or no Snow
Weather predictions are not always accurate.
Snow is Snow no matter how you define it.
And on into the night … the weather conundrum continues …
I am Content to Stay curled up snug and warm …
How about you? Are you in a Conundrum? Or are you Content?
Ragtag Daily Prompt-Tuesday! Conundrum!
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Let’s not be in a Conundrum. Let’s be Content. God is in Control. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Brio and MagnaTiles
Line, Curves, and Arches
Coleman’s Architectural Designs
Coleman used his MagnaTiles to construct a bridge over his Brio Railroad Track so his Hot Wheels cars could drive over the track while his Brio trains chug chug chugged down his track.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Little Tikes Geomtrics
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Geometric Construction Windows
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Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Speedily Passing By
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: By the Bus Stop; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
I wish I had a telescope 🔭 and could take pictures through it. This week the evening sky is delightful. Several planets are visible and a rare planetary parade is coming to the skies on the 21st. That’s why I wish I had a telescope, six planets (maybe seven) will be visible including Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus.
Enough of my wishes and here’s to show you what I could see just through my iPhone tonight.
According to Google Lens Search what I captured is the Constellation Orion.
Now to show you what stylized creation Google Photos Al created of my evening sky.
Before you ask, I will tell you that I really do not comprehend how Al arrived at this interpretation of my evening sky. Your guess would be as good as mine.
One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-January 2025
Hammad’s Weekend Sky 2025 Week 3 (Part 2)
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Our Backyard View; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Look up and enjoy the fantastic wonders of the 🌌. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very my.
Weekend Sky
On Monday, after our weekend winter weather, was a delayed start for school for Coleman. Therefore, we were at the bus stop an hour later than normal and were treated with an amazing Red Sky. I am not sure if we need to take warning, that bad weather is coming or not. The weather forecast keeps changing from possible more winter weather to only rainy days ahead.
Hammad’s Weekend Sky 2025 Week 3
Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: By the Railroad Tracks; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Geometric Creation
Coleman Style
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Our Home; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
~ Luther Burbank
“We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different for ourselves.”
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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.
Becky’s GeometricJanuary
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stay Safe. Keep Warm. Be Observant. Geometric shapes are all around. 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
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 Smartphone Wallpapers:
Personal Focus
Hiking Focus
Reading Focus
Here are my Wallpapers from my Laptop:
Laptop Desktop Wallpaper
Laptop Screensaver
Clare’s Share Your Desktop-January 2025
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1-3) Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max; 4-5) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV Filter attachment.
Location: 1-2) Riverside Park and Greenway; 3-5) Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a funtastic week. Keep Warm. Stay Safe. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Judy invites us to join in with her to play “The Numbers Game #56.” Today’s number is 177. To play along, she suggests you 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 her 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.This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below.
Here are my contributions to The Numbers Game Challenge:
God Bless. Take Care. Enjoy Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much
Ragtag Daily Prompt-Tuesday! Goat!
Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Outside Confluence South Fork; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Be Kind. Love One Another as Yourself. Don’t let anything get your Goat. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
A Beautiful Relaxing View
XingfuMama’s Whatsoever Is Lovely Challenge-2025 Week 2
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #254
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: South Fork Catawba River; Riverside Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Relax by the River. Be inspired to be You. Nature’s Beauty is amazing. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
For some snow last longer than others depending on your location. In the southeast, snow is not a yearly occurrence. The last Snow we saw was in late January of 2022, three years ago. This year we only received a dusting of snow before it changed to a wintry mix ending with freezing rain.
Now for a look at The Day After …
For my friends in Atlanta, Georgia, they welcomed the snow. They had plenty for their to be played in, but alas it won’t last for long there either.
And my friend’s view in Van Wyck, South Carolina …
Here’s a view of it snowing from Fort Mill, South Carolina …
Contrasting with our views …
God Bless. Stay Safe. Keep Warm. Be Observant. Geometric shapes are all around. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
❄️Snow 🌨️ Snowing ❄️ Snowfall 🌨️❄️
Thursday Afternoon, 01.09
Thursday was cold with lows in the low twenties (21°) warming into the low 40’s.
Friday Afternoon, 01.10
Currently, it is 29° and snowing where we live. Normally, if we get snow ❄️, we don’t get it until near the end of January/early February. We haven’t seen snow since mid-January 2022. WSOC 9 Now reported that this is the “First snow in Charlotte in 1076 days.” [The Town of Cramerton is just 18-20 minutes southwest of Charlotte International Airport.]
As you may have noticed, Coleman managed to scoot past me without proper attire to see our first drops of snow ❄️. Don’t worry, I didn’t let him stay out for very long with no jacket or shoes.
It is supposed to keep snowing until around 6:30 (more or less) and then switch over to a wintry mix throughout the evening and on into early Saturday morning.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stay Warm. Stay Safe. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Judy invites us to join in with her to play “The Numbers Game #55.” Today’s number is 176. To play along, she suggests you 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 her 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.This prompt will repeat each Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below.
Here are my contributions to The Numbers Game Challenge:
God Bless. Take Care. Enjoy Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Welcome back to the Which Way Challenge … this week’s challenge is CWWC: Roads with any signs. For further information about the Which Way Challenge check out the new Which Way Challenge page here.
Signs can be found on almost any road, dirt road, trail or greenway. When Coleman and I go hiking we usually see a sign or two. It doesn’t matter if we are walking through town or hiking along a trail or greenway, signs help guide the way or possibly warn of danger. No matter the sign or location one can gather pertinent information and notice the different geometric shapes the signs represent.
Here are my entries for this week …
Now over to y’all to post your Which Ways (CWWC) Roads with any signs.
Which Way’s from this past week:
Which Way Challenge (CWWC)-Roads with any Signs
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts (and hopefully Which Ways) with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Throwback Doors with Coleman
This week has been pretty cold ( low’s in the low 20’s), I know that’s not as cold as some of y’all see but it’s freezing for us. Therefore, I chose to go through my archive file of doors. Look out all the lines, angles, squares, and rectangles. Can you spot other Geometric patterns/shapes? Hopefully you’ll enjoy viewing Coleman’s antics as I fondly remember them. I am also linking up with GeometricJanuary and Throwback Thursday.
In this last photo (animation) we had a “lock” on the Refrigerator Door to try to keep him from getting into it. As you can see it didn’t keep him from trying.
Photo Credit:©️2021 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max
Location: Lake Wylie, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. I’m Grateful for being allowed to watch Coleman grow up with all his antics, experiences, and expressions. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Airport Geometrics
My daughter snapped this photo while at the airport the day after New Year’s Day. It seems like a Geometric Field of wondrous shapes and objects.
Photo Credit:©️Trisha L. Wilson (my daughter) … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Plus
Location: Charlotte-Douglas International Airport; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Good Bless. Take time to be Grateful. Appreciate your Blessings. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Sasquatch & Coleman
This (PPAC) of Bigfoot ( also known as Sasquatch) is located on the Disc Golf Trail at Goat Island Park and Greenway in Cramerton, North Carolina. This is the first time Coleman and I hiked this trail since Hurricane Helene. After the flood damage to the trail in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene; the trail was blocked off prohibiting access temporarily until repairs could be completed. We did not recall seeing Sasquatch previously. Coleman was fascinated by the Bigfoot and had to check it out.
Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC)
Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters .., All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max; Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV filter attachment
Location: Disc Golf Trail; Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Geometric Windows
& Scaffolding
One week of the New Year is done and gone, looking forward to all there is to discover as we continue moving forward in 2025. Here is my First Monday Window for 2025 …
Monday Window is a weekly blog post challenge featuring one or more photos of windows, prominently or as the main subject.
Monday Window posts are published each Monday morning at 3:15 UTC.
To join the challenge, release a post featuring a window or windows any time during the week.
► Tag your post “Monday Window” (NOTE: Put a space between Monday and Window, no “s”, Window is singular.) The WordPress Reader will show most of the recent posts tagged this way (alas, not all).
► Add a comment to the latest Monday Window post and include a link to your latest Monday Window post.
Please visit the participating blogs.You will be delighted and astounded by the rich and imaginative offerings by the bloggers from around the world.
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