Category: #Monochrome

Visiting the Horses and Trails (at the Greenway)

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

Whenever Coleman and I have the opportunity to visit Anne Springs Close Greenway we almost always (but not always) visit the horses. Coleman loves horses. The Anne Springs Close Greenway has five different entrances to the Greenway for hiking, mountain biking, or just visiting.

Goats at the Children’s Farm

Last Saturday, Coleman and I went to the Greenway Stables and Farm Entrance to visit the Farm animals and (of course) the horses.

Cow & Goat
in the Pasture
at the Farm

We arrived late due to heavy traffic and congestion on the roads leading to the Greenway Stables. Therefore, we only had a short amount of time to visit the farm animals.

One last look at the Farm
animals before venturing
towards the horses.

Moving on to hiking and visiting the horses stabled at the Greenway. We saw and visited with several owners who were there to enjoy a ride on their horses along the trails.

Trailing behind a horse
& rider down Dogwood Trail
Still hiking along Dogwood Trail.
The rider is up around the bend.

The Greenway has several horse stables scattered along the Dogwood Trail and are maintained by the Greenway staff. Quite a few of the horses are privately owned and as the sign says you’re not supposed to pet or feed the horses. However, some of the owners will allow Coleman to pet their horses. If an owner’s horse is skittish the owner will not recommend petting it or coming too close.

Coleman visiting horses
at one of the
Greenway Stables.

We recommend checking with a horses owner before petting them. The owners are not always present, but when they are they are friendly and usually willing to answer any questions about their horses.

An AI sketch rendering
of few Greenway horses
enjoying their feed.

Click on each image to enlarge.

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS 2000D (Rebel T7) with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV Filter attachment.

Location: Greenway Stables, Crandall Bowles Children’s Farm, and Dogwood Trail; Greenway Stables and Farm Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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

Observing What’s in the Space Between

This week’s host for Monochrome Madness is Stupidity Hole with a theme of The Space Between. Looking forward to exploring the various interpretations on The Space Between.

Monochrome Madness

Here are a few I came up with for this week’s challenge …

The Road Between
leading to Hearst Castle
The Boy (Coleman) Between
the Railings on the Bridge
at Anne Springs Close Greenway
The Feathers Between
Coleman’s Fingers
The South Fork Catawba River
Between the Grounds
of Goat Island

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Leanne’s Monochrome Madness-2025.12.13

Stupidity Hole’s Monochrome Madness-The Space Between

Photo Credit:©️1979-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

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

2025 Monochrome Madness #48 — Leaves and Petals

Dawn from The Day After is hosting this week’s Monochrome Madness; she has chosen a theme of Leaves and Petals. A few of the leaves are from here in Cramerton and the rest are from an outing we took on Thanksgiving Day to do a little bit of hiking.

Leaves and Petals

Dawn’s Monochrome Madness-Leaves and Petals

Dawn’s Festival of Leaves #10

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness #48-Leaves and/or Petals

Terri’s The #Flower Hour

Also posting for …

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Bren’s Floral Friday

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: 1-3) Cramerton, North Carolina; 4-8) Cornelius/Lake Norman, 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.

2025 Monochrome Madness — 21 November

A Day

in the

Life of Coleman

Reflecting on a typical afternoon with Coleman if he had his chance to choose how it would go.

From beginning near the railroad tracks …

Corner across from
the Railroad Tracks

… Who needs school …

Disc Golf Trail

Let’s go meandering through Goat Island …

Coleman

Can you see me? …

Coleman

Better now? …

How am I doing about blending into my environment?

Disc Golf Trail

Shall we continue meandering?

South Fork Catawba River

The South Fork River is beautiful and has amazing reflections in the afternoons.

AI of Coleman
in the Playground

AI sometimes can remix an image pretty well. At other times you might wonder how it came up with its remix interpretation.

AI remix of Coleman
on a dirt Trail.

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: 1) Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max; 2-7) Canon EOS 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens; 8-9) Google Lens AI

Location: Goat Island 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.

2025 November #Shadows #20

Goat Island Bridge @11:49 am in 2023

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Becky’s November #Shadows #20

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens

Settings: f/10 • 1/125s • 20mm • ISO100

Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA  

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

2025 November #Shadows #17

Monochrome

#Shadow Reflections

Shadowy Reflections
in the
South Fork Catawba River

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Becky’s November #Shadows #17

Debbie’s One Word Sunday-Monochrome

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere

Monday Monochrome 

Monochrome Monday (MM)

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel 2000D with Canon EG-S55-250mm lens

Location: South Fork Catawba River; Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

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

2025 Monochrome Madness — 06 November

Shades of Yellow

Rocky Branch Trail
Cramerton, NC
South Fork Catawba River
Wildflowers
Ranunculus acris
Meadow Buttercup
 The Schiele Museum of
Natural History Garden

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

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

2025 Which Way Challenge (CWWC): Any Which Way in Monochrome

CWWC
Cee’s Which Way Challenge

On the Road …

A Stray Dog Wandering the Streets
A Rainy Day Drive
A Country Lane

On the Trail …

In Anne Springs Close Greenway …

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Thank you to all who have supported and contributed to the Which Way Challenge this past week or at any time. Be sure to check out other Which Ways by clicking on the links below.

Dawn’s The Road to Visit My Sister

Geriatri’x’ Fotogallery’s Walking in Autumn

Chava61’s Festival of Leaves 2025 CWWC Autumn Colors & Sunday Trees

Suzette’s Deb’s Which Way Challenge- Autumn Colors Week 2

Dan’s This Too Shall Pass — 1LinerWeds

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy a hike/walk in Nature. Admire Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Noteworthy News: Next Week’s Which Way Challenge on Friday, November 7th, we’ll be joining Dan Antion from No Facilities(https://noFacilities.com) and Marsha from (https://alwayswrite.blog/), to post Black and White photos to remember Cee on her birthday. For the Which Way Challenge they can be Any Which Way in Black & White in memory of Cee’s Black and White Challenge (CBWC). It would be fantastic if you could include Bridges and/or Old Barns as Cee loved photographing them. If you desire include a thought or memory about Cee or your experiences with her challenges. You may also include flowers in your Which Way for Cee.

Remembering Cee

2025 Monochrome Madness #45 —- Ceramics

Early American Pottery

Brian from Bushboys World is this week’s host for Monochrome Madness he has given us a wide range of options to explore and choose from to select our own interpretations for his theme of Ceramics.

Here are my entries for this week’s challenge …

A glimpse into depicting Early American Pottery in the Graham Cabin at Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, South Carolina.

Early American Pottery

Let’s look next at a display of Native American Indian Pottery in the Catawba Cultural Center at the Catawba Reservation in Rock Hill, South Carolina.

Catawba Indian Pottery

And now for discovering Early Native American Catawba Indian Pottery inside and outside The Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia, North Carolina.

Catawba Indian Village
Henry Hall
of the
American Indian
Henry Hall
of the
American Indian

Brian’s Monochrome Madness-Ceramics

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

Photo Credit:©️2022-2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Cameras: 1) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens; 2) Apple iPhone 13 Pro; 3-5) Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Locations: As stated above.

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 Monochrome Monday(MM): 29 September

Roche Harbor

Roche Harbor Marina

Monday Monochrome 

Monochrome Monday

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #280

Photo Credit:©️2025 Dave Schmitt … All Rights Reserved 

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

2025 Monochrome Madness (MM) — Symmetry

Dawn from The Day After hosts this week’s Monochrome Madness. She has chosen a theme of symmetry. Symmetry refers to an objects balance and harmonious proportions, having its parts similar corresponding to one another. The image below I think is my favourite symmetrical photo I have and even though I have others I’m saving them for another time.

Gateway Arch
St. Louis, Missouri

Dawn’s Monochrome Madness-Symmetry

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness #43-Symmetry

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

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

Venus – Jupiter Visible Shortly Before Sunrise

Weekend Sky

Six Word Saturday

Skywatch Friday

Early every morning when Coleman and I walk to the bus stop we look up in wonder at the Morning Sky.

Most mornings lately we have had cloudy skies; some white clouds and some dark thunderous clouds, but today not so.




Today, the skies were clear with “stars” shining brightly. What I did not realize until after Coleman was on the bus and I was back home was that the brightest “Stars” we were seeing were not actually “Star” at all.



What we really saw in the early morning skies were the planets Venus, Jupiter and more dazzling images.

Hammad’s Weekend Sky

Debbie’s Six Word Saturday

Skywatch Friday-2025.08.29

Hopefully you are able to see what we saw. It was an amazingly awesome sight to watch.

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max 

Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA 

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

Repetitive Rippling Water

Good Day! As I right this this evening it is trying to rain, we’ve seen the dark clouds rolling in, heard the thunder banging like drums overhead, but yet to see the rain. I am thankful for the lovely sunshine we enjoyed today.

It was such a beautiful day and we hadn’t been out and about for the past week with all our on again off again thunderstorms; therefore, it was an excellent day to wander down to the river for a bit of hiking and Coleman playtime in the sandy river banks. Coleman is fascinated by the rippling effects of the water when he throws wood into the river.

I decided to capture his water ripples in black and white thereby linking this post to Jez’s Water Water Everywhere, Debbie’s One Word Sunday-Repeat and Monochrome Monday.

Multiple repetitive
Water Rippling
A Thrown piece of Wood
& it’s Rippling effects
Repetitive Rippling Lines
Repetitive Rippling Circles
Larger Circular Ripples
Natural Water Ripples
(Not by Coleman)

Debbie’s One Word Sunday-Repeat

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #277

Monday Monochrome 

Monochrome Monday

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: South Fork Catawba River; Riverside Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Get Outdoors. Take a hike/walk out in Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Monochrome Madness (MM) #41 — Movement

Monochrome Movement

at the Concert

This week Leanne is hosting the Monochrome Madness challenge. She has chosen a theme of Movement to spark our interest and inspire our creativity.

Here are my selections for the challenge …

We arrive at the Town’s concert early not just to obtain our choice seats, but also to allow Coleman to run around with friends and burn off excess excitement and energy prior to the start of the concert events.

Coleman Rolling
on the Grass
SS 1/800s

Coleman enjoys rolling down the slight hill in our Centennial Center Park.

Coleman hopping
on One Foot
SS 1/320s

He was challenging a friend to hop on one foot and she was trying to show him how to do cartwheels. They had a fun time playing together last Friday evening.

SS 1/250s
SS 1/1100s
Coleman and his friend
Running around
before the Concert
SS 1070s

Before long it was time for the Rick Hubbard’s Kazoobie Kazoo Kids Show. Rick was an outstanding guest musician entertaining the audience and involving the kids in attendance in his show. Here he is playing both a banjo and a Kazoo while entertaining everyone in attendance.

Rick Hubbard
Kazoobie Kazoo
Kids Show
SS 1/320s

The second event for the evening was a Concert by the Caleb Davis Band. Prior to any show the band warms up making sure their sound system is working properly and their instruments are properly tuned and ready for the show.

Caleb Davis Band S
S 1/347s

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness #41-Movement

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV filter attachment.

Location: Centennial Center; Downtown Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy Nature. Capture the beauty all around you. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Monochrome Monday(MM)/Monday Portrait

Scavenger in the Park

While walking around Goat Island Park and Greenway Coleman spotted something in the trash can that definitely wasn’t trash.

Eastern gray squirrel

This Eastern Gray Squirrel was scavenging through the trash to see what he could find that might possibly look appetizing.

Look 👀 Closely

Monday Monochrome 

Monochrome Monday

Monday Portrait

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved 

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion Camera 

Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA 

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

2025 Greenway in Black & White

“What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.”

~ Ruth Bernhard

Horse Practice Jumping Ring

Patterson Pond

Horse Stables

Click on each image for enhanced, enlarged viewing.

Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge-Black and White

Monochrome Monday 

Monochrome Madness 

Monday Monochrome 

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Greenway Farm and Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; South Carolina, USA

God Bless. Have Fun. Enjoy Nature’s beauty in the great outdoors. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.