2024 Weekend FOTD: 08.31/09.01 — HT Landscape Begonias

Begonia cucullata

Begonias landscaped around the entrance to Harris Teeter (local grocery store).


Begonia cucullata are also known as clubbed begonia and wax begonia. When grown as groundcover, the flowers of the plant are red, pink, or white that bloom in summer or year-round in warmer places, and the fruits have three wings. [This time of year it is extremely hot here (I know it could be hotter) in the mid-nineties. These begonias thrive where we (Coleman and I) are overwhelmed by the extreme heat and are rolling in sweat just walking him to school and back home.

Cee’s Weekend FOTD

Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Harris Teeter; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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

2024 Floral Friday: 08.30 — Colouring Flowers #35

Heart Full of Love 💕 & Flowers

Coloured by Me
Via Zen Color App

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

2024 Judy’s Numbers Game #36 — 157

Welcome to “The Numbers Game #36”. Today’s number is 157. 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.

I couldn’t locate photos with the number 157, so I decided to choose a Word — Airplane.

Judy’s Numbers Game #36-157

Throwback Thursday

Photo Credit: ©️1985 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved and ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35mm and iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

2024 FOTD: 08.27 —

Pink Velour Crape Myrtle

The Pink Velour Crape Myrtle is a type of Lagerstroemia indica crape myrtle tree. The flower colouring changes with the season. In the summer its blooms are a bright Hot Pink changing to a burgundy in the fall.

One can find the Lagerstroemia all across the Southern Atlantic States. Similar to the southern Magnolia, the crape Myrtle has come to symbolize the American South due to its extensive planting and ability to thrive in hot, humid summer climates with regular precipitation. It has brilliant color in late summer and autumn unlike other trees/shrubs which have already exhausted their blooms.

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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

Floral Macro Monochrome Monday: 08.26 — Liriope muscari 

Liriope muscari is commonly referred to as big blue lilyturflilyturfborder grass, and monkey grass. It has grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single-seeded berries on a spike in the fall.

It is late summer here, however, these Big Blue Lilyturf can be spotted around all over the city in landscape manicured gardens. They are one of the few plants in bloom right now besides the varieties of Crape Myrtle.

Being an easy plant to grow, landscapers tend to use the Liriope muscari as groundcover for borders along sidewalks, trails, driveways, shrubbery, and trees. It is one of the most popular groundcovers in the southeastern United States.

Monochrome Monday

Macro Monday

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

Monochrome Monday 

Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

2024 Weekend FOTD: 08.24/.25 — Lagerstroemia indica

Lagerstroemia indica,
AKA Crape Myrtle

Cee’s Weekend FOTD

Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Gardner Park Neighborhood; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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

2024 FOTD: 08.24 — Catawba Crape Myrtle

Lagerstroemia indica ‘Catawba’

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Gardner Park Elementary School; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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

2024 Floral Friday: 08.23 — Colouring Flowers #34

Scents for your Senses

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

2024 OWS: Lime or Lemon

—- Out in Nature

Good Day y’all! For this week’s challenge I dug into my archives to see what Lime or Lemon colours I could find to fit the theme. Hope y’all enjoy the selections I found.

Debbie’s One Word Sunday-Lime or Lemon

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Photo Credit: ©️2020-2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

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

2024 Bird of the Week —

Entomyzon cyanotis

The Blue-faced honeyeater is a passerine bird of the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae. The Blue-faced honeyeater is considered large at 29.5 centimeters ( 11.6 inches) in length. Its plumage is distinctive in coloration; having olive upper parts, white underparts, and a black head and throat with white nape and cheeks. Unlike some other bird species, males and females are similar in external appearance.

Common name: Blue-faced honeyeater
Binomial name: Entomyzon cyanotis
AKA Bananabird

The Blue-faced honeyeaters are found in open woodland, parks, and gardens. [This one was shot at the Riverbanks Zoo & Garden in Columbia, South Carolina.] They are common in northern and eastern Australia, and southern New Guinea.

These birds feast on a diet of mostly invertebrates along with nectar and fruit. The name of banana-bird was given to it due to its propensity for feeding on the flowers and fruit of bananas in North Queensland. One of the early naturalist, George Shaw, called it the blue-faced honey-sucker in 1826.

Bird of the Week LXXVII

Throwback Thursday

Photo Credit:©️2017 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 7 Plus Telephoto camera

Location: Riverbanks Zoo & Garden; Columbia, South Carolina, USA

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

2024 Judy’s Numbers Game #35 — 156

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.

Here are my 156 & variation contributions for this week of Judy’s Numbers Game #35-156 (Hope the numbers right—I got in a hurry, sorry).

Judy’s Numbers Game #35-156

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

1-2-3 Cell Pic Photo Processing — August 2024

Macrolepiota procera

the parasol mushroom

Original
Monochrome

John’s CellPic Sunday

One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-August 2024

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Photo Processing done via Pixlr

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

2024 Floral Friday: 08.16 —Colouring Flowers #33

Coloured by Me 
Via Zen Color App

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

Coleman’s Firsts ….

… First Day of School

… First Day of Kindergarten

… First Day Wearing New Backpack

… First Day Walking to School

… First Day for Many New & Exciting Experiences

Coleman’s
First Day of School
First Day of Kindergarten

Coleman’s Excited … Grandma’s jittery.

I do not recall being this jittery when my children went to their first days of school. How is it so different now than then? Do I worry too much? Am I more protective of my grandson than I was with my own children? Definitely things to ponder and pray about.,

The First Day of School

I’ve got a brand-new lunchbox. My shoes are shiny clean. I’ve got a cool, new bookbag And a pencil box that’s green.
But I don’t know my teacher, Or where my desk will be. I don’t know if I’ll like the kids, Or if they’ll play with me.
I peek inside my classroom. I stand there for a while. My teacher’s tall and kind of loud, But has a great big smile.
And, best of all, she’s got my Favorite book upon the shelf! I kiss my mother Grandma at the door And walk in by myself.

by Ruth Donnelly
http://www.superteacherworksheets.com

Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

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

2024 Numbers Game #34-155/LAPC/MM — What’s in a Garden?

Welcome to The Numbers Game #34”.Today’s number is 155. 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.

This week I am combining Judy’s Numbers Game with Leanne’s Monochrome Madness and Leya’s Lens-Artist Photo Challenge . I am choosing to use the Word Garden for this week’s challenges.

Glencairn Gardens

Glencairn Gardens is ideal for a Spring stroll through the gardens of blooming azaleas, pansies, wisteria, and periwinkle. When visiting the Gardens be sure to meander through the Veterans Garden which pays tribute to Veterans of all branches of service. Also, during Spring, you be able to enjoy the blossoms of Viburnum, Pink and white Dogwoods, Redbuds, peonies, magnolia trees, and flowering Yoshino and Kwanzan cherry trees.

There is beauty to be seen no matter when one decides to visit Glencairn Gardens. Summertime brings on the colourful bright blooms of crape myrtles, daylilies and hundreds of other annuals.

The trails through the Gardens pass by several fountains, ponds, as well as the vast variety of flowering plants and trees. we enjoy strolling pass the Fountains, especially when they are flowing during the springtime. We always stop by the Veterans Garden when we go visit and remember our family members who have served in our Armed Forces.

Glencairn Gardens began in 1928 as a backyard garden by David and Hazel Bigger who lived in the h9use that serves as the park’s welcome center. It was the inspiration for Rock Hill’s annual Come-See-Me Festival which is a festival celebrating music, frogs, and fun. The Bigger’s gifted this Gardens to the City of Rock Hill through a deed in 1958. The peak blooming season is from the end of March to the middle of April. The Veterans Garden was created with the partnership with The American Legion Post 34 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2889. It h9onors women and men from the past, present, and future who served in the United States armed forces.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #311 – What’s in a Garden?

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

Judy’s Numbers Game #34 — 155

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Photo Credit:©️2019 & 2023 Deb L Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Cameras: Apple iPhone XR and Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300 mm and Canon EF-S18-55mm lenses.

Location: Glencairn Gardens; Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA

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

Bright Yellow Zinnia on Sunny Saturday

I’m hoping to have some sunny sunshine anyways. We’ve been having a tremendous amount of rain and wind from the outskirts of Hurricane Debby/Tropical Storm Debby ( now Tropical Depression Debby). At least I can dream of sunshine even if we do not get it for several days yet.

Yellow Zinnia elegans

Debbie’s Six Word Saturday

Leigha’s Sunny Sunday Challenge

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 

Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2024 Week 31

Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

God Bless. Take time to stop and smell the flowers. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Floral Friday: 08.09 —Colouring Flowers #32

Flowers on Stamps
Coloured by Me
Via Zen Color App

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

2024 RDP: Tuesday—Travel!

Leaving on a Jet Plane

In the aftermath of Covid, travel has increased dramatically upwards to around 60 percent from the same time last year. This increase is comparable to the amount of travelers in 2019. People are more relaxed and have an increased willingness to travel. My daughter began working at the airport earlier this year and is amazed by the number of travelers traveling by airplane. She is also quite delirious about the items travelers try to get away with bringing onto an airplane and the items which airport TSA agents have to confiscate.

Watching this video of an airplane leaving Charlotte-Douglas International Airport reminded me of a song sung by John Denver calledLeaving on a Jet Plane.”

All my bags are packed
I’m ready to go
I’m standin’ here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye … So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you’ll wait for me
Hold me like you’ll never let me go
‘Cause I’m leavin’ on a jet plane

John Denver

Personally, I have not travelled any lengthy distance since 2020. I’m not convinced Covid is over, but believe it is ongoing and will keep being around for a long time. Even though there are not as many, I don’t think, Covid related deaths; the long term effects of the virus drastically affect peoples lives.

With limited resources, I do not do the traveling I imagined I would be doing at this particular stage in my life. I travel vicariously through the reading of books which take me (in my mind) to interesting and fascinating places I’d never dreamed possible. Someday ( hopefully soon), I hope to travel long distance to the west coast once again. Though the traveling will not be on an airplane, most likely will be in a rental vehicle or in my daughter’s car along with a U-Haul. I’m hoping to eventually more out west to be closer to my husband’s gravesite, where I’ll be able to visit often.

Do you travel abundantly? Are you relaxed or skeptical about traveling surrounded by large crowds of people? Me, I do not like large crowds and never really have.

Ragtag Daily Prompt-Travel!

Video Credit: ©️2024 Trisha L. Wilson … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Plus

Location: Charlotte-Douglas International Airport; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

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

OWS: Nature’s Framework

For One Word Sunday this week Debbie has chosen Framed. She is not referring to placing a photo in a frame, but rather using nature to frame a scene or subject.

One-sided framing
Sequoia National Park
Double Framed

Debbie’s One Word Sunday

Throwback Thursday

Photo Credit: 1-3)©️1979 Nornal H. Waters … All Rights Reserved; 4) ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Cameras: 1-3) Minolta XG-7 35 mm; 4) iPhone 14 Pro Max

Locations: 1-3) Sequoia National Forest; Tulare County, California; 4) Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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

2024 Macro Monday/FOTD: 08.05

Viburnum opulus

Guelder-Rose
Guelder Rose 

FOTD

Macro Monday

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

Camera: Apple iPhone 13 Pro

Location: Riverwalk; Piedmont Medical Center Trail; Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA

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

2024 Numbers Game #32 —153

 To play along with Judy’s Numbers Game simply go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a choice 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.

I have chosen to pick a word to select my photos for this week’s Numbers Game hosted by Judy Dykstra-Brown’s blog. The Word I have chosen is Zoo. My selections come from four different zoos.

Columbus Zoo and Aquarium

Riverbanks Zoo & Garden

Greenville Zoo

San Diego Wild Animal Park

Judy’s Numbers Game #31-153

Throwback Thursday

Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2024-Week 31

Jez’s Water Water Evverywhere #230

Photo Credit: Sets 1-3) ©️2012-2022 Deb L. Waters; 4th Set)©️1979 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved. 

Camera: 1-3) Canon EOS Rebel T3i; 4) Minolta XG-7 35 mm

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

2024 Floral Friday: 08.02 —Colouring Flowers #31

Cactus Flower Blossoms
Coloured by Me
Via Zen Color App

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

2024 CWWC: My Which Way — August – Week 1

For this week in doing Cee’s Which Way My Way I’m choosing a theme of Any Dirt Roads, Pathways, or Trails. I’d love for y’all to join me in posting your Dirt Roads, Pathways or Trails.

For Cee’s Which Way doing it My Way I have chosen to select Dirt Trails from our favourite Greenway with Coleman. If desired, you can click on each photo for enlarged viewing.

Cee’s Which Way Challenge 

Which Way My Way

Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Dogwood Trail; Horse Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your Dirt Roads, Pathways, and or Trails with us. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Last On the Card — July

Brian from Bushboy.blog asks us to post our last photo on our SD card or phone on the last day of the month. No editing. Explanations not necessary. Create a Pingback or leave a link in comments to Brian’s blog. Use the tags The Last Photo and #LastOnTheCard. 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.

From My iPhone:

Coleman
in his new
Grave Digger shirt

From my Canon EOS Rebel T3i:

Patterson Pond
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

From My Dad’s Slides taken with his Minolta XG-7 35 mm Via My Wolverine Digital Converter:

San Diego Wild Animal Park
San Diego, California, USA

Brian’s Last On the Card

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

Birds of the Carolinas #15

House Sparrows

The House Sparrow is a common to abundant resident throughout the Carolinas. These birds can be found nesting almost everywhere people live. They are often strongly associated with man-made habitats. They are found in the Piedmont region year-round in good numbers with counts sometimes as high as 300 in a single day.

The House Sparrow is a small bird with a typical length of merely 16 centimeters (6.3 inches). Females and young birds are colored pale brown and grey. The males have brighter black, white, and brown markings.

The House Sparrow feed on almost any type of seed or grain, and also enjoy eating insects. Even though insects are considered highly nutritional being rich in protein calcium, and low in carbohydrates; I think I will pass.

South Carolina Ornithologists consider the House Sparrow to be noisy, quarrelsome, and aggressive. I have not noticed them being aggressive. I have seen them flighty and a little noisy, but then I like hearing the variety of sounds from different birds.

The House Sparrow, having originally been native to Eurasia, has adapted to and thrived within man-made environments throughout the world for hundreds of years.

Birds of the Carolinas

Bird of the Week LXXIII

Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters (except where noted) … All Rights Reserved.

Location: Martha Rivers Park; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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

2024 Macro Monday: 07.29 — Rudbeckia hirta 

Rudbeckia hirta L.
Black-eyed Susan

Macro Monday

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Greenway Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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

2024 Floral Friday: 07.26 —Colouring Flowers #30

Coloured by Me
Via Zen Color App

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

Happy 5th Birthday Coleman! 07.25

Today my grandson turned Five. Where has the time gone? He’s currently 43.78 inches tall and weighs 42.20 pounds. He will start kindergarten next month.

Coleman
and his new
train track set

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

Sunday Stills/OWS/CPC — Bright Flowers & Wings

Flowers & Wings

in the Bright Sunshine

Fiery skipper
on Zinnia violacea

Wings on Bright Flowers

Wings on a Zinnia
Birds in Flight
Canada Geese
Black-Eyed Susans
Zinnias

Terri’s Sunday Stills-Wings

One Word Sunday-Bright

The Cosmic Photo Challenge-What’s flowering where you are?

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #308-Perfect Pairs

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Greenway Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

God Bless. Thankful for a slight break from all the rain. Wish we could have a break from this extreme heat. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

Words for Thought #28

Psalm 145:11 (NIV)
Rudbeckia 

Think About It Tuesday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

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

2024 Weekend Sky: Cloud Ripples and Sunset

Gastonia Sky
Lancaster Sunset

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

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

2024 Floral Friday: 07.19 —Colouring Flowers #29

Colored by Me Via
Zen Color App

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

Words for Thought #27

Psalm 33:22 (ESV)

Think About It Tuesday

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

2024 SYD: July

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.

2024 One to Three Photo Processing—July

Daucus carota L.

Queen Anne’s lace

Original
Monochrome
Google Alpaca Filter
Pixlr Blur + Watercolor + Sharpen & Smooth Effects
PicCollage Editing Filters: Watercolor + Retro 1 + Sparkle 4 Overlay + Vibrance 16

One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-July 2024

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

2024 FOTD: July 12 —- Colouring Flowers #28

Coloured by Me
Via Zen Color App

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

2024 Judy’s Numbers Game #29 — 150

A Hodgepodge of Pix

Blue Ridge Mountains
North Carolina, USA
Fountain at
Central Ohio Technical College
Newark, Ohio
License Plates Display
NC Transportation Museum
Spencer, North Carolina
Business Garden
Gastonia, North Carolina
Grave Marker
for Eddie W. Waters
( my Paternal Uncle)
Great Falls, South Carolina

A Hodgepodge of Coleman

Judy’s Numbers Game #29-150

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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.

2024 OWS: 07.07 — Transport

While most will think of physical means of transport such as cars, airplanes, trains, and similar vehicles used for transportation; I am venturing into a different realm of transport.

The term transport has several different and yet similar definitions. It means an act or process of transporting; to transfer or convey from one place to another; a vehicle (such as a truck or airplane) used to transport persons or goods. It also means  to carry away with strong and often intensely pleasant emotion; strong or intensely pleasurable emotion.

Transport applies to any powerful emotion(s) that lifts one out of oneself and usually provokes vehement expression or frenzied action.

It is these last definitions in which I am applying here for my interpretation on Debbie’s One Word Sunday Prompt of Transport.

“Books are the plane, the train, = and the ROAD. They are the Destination and The Journey.they are home.”

~ ANNA QUINDLEN

When I read books 📚 I am transported into another place and time. I feel the emotions along with the characters in whichever book or story I am reading. Books take me places where I might not otherwise be able to visit, help me to learn and understand what other places and people are all about. I can envision myself there right amongst the people,whether real or imagined by the other, they all seem very real to me. I can feel and visualize the events taking place and I am instantaneously transported to another city, state, or country as if I am one with the book and its characters.

“Books take you places you hope someday to go. They transport you to time in the future or long, long ago. The words paint the pictures, the author’s canvas is your mind. Surreal images greet you, you never know what you’ll find. Books take you places, whether fantasy or real. Some tales make you laugh while others make you squeal!”

~ Kimberly Beatty 

What are your thoughts on books as a means of transport? Have you ever felt as if you have been transported to another time or place when you were reading a book?

Debbie’s One Word Sunday-Transport

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

2024 CellPic Sunday: 07.07

Eulithis diversilineata

Eulithis diversilineata

Lesser Grapevine Looper
Our Backyard Visitor

John’s CellPic Sunday

Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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

2024 Floral Friday: July 5th —- Colouring Flowers #27

Sunny Sunflower Sends

Sunshine to your Soul

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

2024 Last Photo on the Card — June

Brian from bushboy.blog asks us to share each month what photos are the Last on the Card or Last on our smartphones or tablets.

This month is going to be a little different for me since I haven’t been anywhere to use my camera this month. I have been busy digitizing my dad’s old slides. I hope it’s alright to post the last picture from the last roll of his I converted to digital format.

From my Dad’s Minolta XG-7 35mm:

My dad’s reflection
of him taking the photo
is in the mirror.

From my iPhone 14 Pro Max:

My grandson, Coleman

Last Photo on the Card-June

Throwback Thursday

Photo Credit: 1) ©️1980 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved; 2) ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35 mm and iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

2024 Numbers Game #28 — 149

Judy’s Numbers Game can bring about interesting results and insights from those who choose to participate. The challenge is alive, let’s join the fun. In searching for the #149 and its variations the results that popped are displayed below in this post.

#149. Around the Greenway

#149 Deviations Around Gastonia

Judy’s Numbers Game#28-149

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

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

2024 OWS: 06.30 — Star

Star Reflections

Debbie’s One Word Sunday’s word this week is Star. Here are my interpretations on Star for this week’s challenge.

Using a Star Filter

Canon Photography

Altura ⭐️ Star Filters

Star Reflections

in Robinwood Lake

iPhone 14 Pro Max

Star Flowers

Debbie’s One Word Sunday-Star

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: 2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T3i and iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

2024 Monday Portrait: 07.01

Cool Cat

Cool cats like to keep cool by hiding in the underbrush in shady areas. Can you spot me?

Maybe if I move a little bit you’ll be able to see me. However, I would appreciate it if you keep the dog away from me. I prefer to stay where I am at and not get in an entanglement.

Enjoy your day! I’m just gonna stay here and relax for a while longer.

Monday Portrait

Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

2024 Macro Monday: 07.01

Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus

Lemon daylily
Yellow daylily
Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus grows in big, spreading clumps, and its leaves grow to 75 cm (30 in) long. Its scapes each bear from 3 through 9 sweetly fragrant, lemon-yellow flowers.

Macro Monday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

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