This blog is for my insights on life, the Bible, hiking adventures with my grandson and whatever is important to me
Cee’s (Chris’) Flower of the Day
Photo Credit ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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Mourning Doves
The scientific name for Mourning Dove is Zenaida macroura. According to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission Mourning Doves are common throughout North Carolina. However, this is the first time Coleman and I have seen them in our neighbourhood. They are members of the dove family, Columbidae. The Mourning Dove is also known by the American mourning dove, the Rain dove, the chueybird. At one point in time they were once referred to as the Carolina pigeon and Carolina turtledove.
Mourning Doves are one of the most abundant and widespread North American birds and a popular gamebird. Approximately twenty (20) million birds are shot annually in the United States, both for sport and meat. It is said that one pair may raise up to six (6) broods of two (2) squabs (young) each in a single year in warm climate areas.
These birds (the mourning doves) are often found near humans, whether gobbling up seeds under a feeder, perching on a telephone wire, or building a nest in a questionable location. The macroura in its scientific name comes from the Greek words for “long tail.” The Mourning Doves tail is slender, tapered, and has white-tipped outer feathers which is a clue to distinguish it apart from other Doves like the Eurasian Collared-Dove and the White-winged Dove Those doves tails end in square tips.
Mourning Doves are known to be skittish. They make a sharp whistling sound when they take flight. The noise doesn’t come from their beaks, however, it is actually made by their wings as air rushes through their feathers and causes them to vibrate.
It is interesting to note that when Mourning Doves locate a food source, such as seeds on the ground (and possibly in a bird feeder); they prefer to grab as much as they can manage, storing their haul in a throat pouch called the crop. Then, they’ll fly off to a safe spot to work on digesting.
In some spiritual or symbolic interpretations, a mourning dove’s appearance can be seen as a message of peace, hope, or a gentle reminder of loved ones, or even a visit from a deceased person. Some people believe that the sight of a Mourning Dove is a message from God, angels, or other spiritual guides. To hear the cooing of a mourning dove can be understood as a call to seek and find inner peace. Another thought is that Doves may remind us to hold on to hope and not fear death, but instead to think of it as a new beginning.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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This week I’m asking y’all to show your Which Ways in Black and White in Memory of Cee Neuner (1960-2025). Cee hosted several photo challenges including Cee’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC) – currently hosted by Deb L. Waters (aka me) from Gfpacificbee’s Insights and Photography, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC) – currently hosted by Dan Antion from No Facilities, Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge (CMMC), and Cee’s Black and White Challenge (CBWC) and Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge (FOTD) – hosted by Chris Donner (Cee’s Life Partner & wife).
In Memory of Cee’s Black and White Challenge let us all show our Which Ways this week in Black and White for this week’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC). Remember to have Fun and Signs are always welcome.
Here are my entries:
On the Road with Cars and Trucks:
Roads and Pathways with Parked Cars and Trucks:
On Sidewalks and Pathways:
All photos were taken in Downtown Town of Cramerton the end of March.
Next week the theme will be CWWC: Any Which Way with Trains and/or Trolleys (or anything else on a railroad track.) This maybe in combination with Dan’s CFFC.
Check out other Which Ways by clicking on the links below.
Deb’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC)-Any Which Way in Black and White
Dan’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC)
Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 14
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Downtown Eighth & Center Streets; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Enjoy your weekend and have a bit of fun. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Trios in the Park
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Centennial Center; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy the Spring Sunshine and have fun. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
The last Friday of the month from March through September the Town of Cramerton holds a Concert Event in the Park. The Concerts will feature artists (singers, bands, musicians) from different genres each month. With a different Genre each Concert the Town hopes to please the musical interests of practically every member of the community.
March’s Concert’s main feature was a band entitled Small Town Sunday. Small Town Sunday performed a mixture of Country music, Christian music, and Christian Country music. The group featured a trio of singers; Matt Branch, Holly Branch and Stephen Robertson plus a drummer, a keyboard musician, and guitarist. The music was fantastic, Coleman and I really enjoyed their music. A couple of song titles they performed are “THE DAYS HE CAN BELIEVE” (written in honor of Matt Branch’s father) and “That’s What I Love About Sunday.”
Here are a few photos I captured during the concert from my iPhone in Black and White.
To find out more about the musical band, Small Town Sunday click here.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: The Graham & Gayle Bell Pavilion; Centennial Center; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Enjoy the Outdoors. Have a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Cramerton Post Office
& Downtown Eateries Doors
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max; Fusion Camera – Muted B&W
Location: Center Street; Downtown Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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Leya is this week’s host for the Lens-Artist Challenge. She has selected a theme of Seen on my Last Outing.
My last outing was on Friday after I picked Coleman up from the school bus stop. After stopping at home to allow him to change into shorts, gather drinks and snacks we proceeded to hike downtown to Goat Island Park and Greenway for a relaxing afternoon of hiking and fun.
What we saw when we first approached Goat Island were the Canada Geese out soaking up the warm sunshine.
Continuing on our way we gaze over the South Fork Catawba River from the bridge as we cross over into the Greenway.
Next up, we saw a bicyclist riding along in front of us on the paved Greenway trail.
Hiking along we saw Sasquatch and more Canada Geese.
Isn’t it amazing the variety of interesting things we see on our various outings we take when we venture outside. The interesting “thing” we saw next was not in our normal per view of subjects seen on any of our adventures previously.
We spoke with the man in the River as curiosity plagued us to know what he was doing standing in the middle of the River. He informed us he was searching for golf discs that might of missed their target and landed in the river instead of the disc golf catcher.
Venturing on, Coleman and I spotted trash discarded by the trail (someone didn’t adhere to the Leave No Trace rule).
Before continuing on our hike, Coleman decided to throw sticks in the river. He likes to see the splashes that occur when he throws objects into the water.
And coming back around to the beginning of the trail, we see some newly grown mushrooms and a couple of disc golf catchers.
As we are at the end of our adventure and what was Seen on our Last Outing, you might like to venture over to Leya’s blog to see what she saw on her last outing. Thank you Leya for hosting this week’s challenge. Click here to check out Leya’s post.
Lens-Artists Challenge #343 – Seen on my Last Outing
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #264
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura CPL & 4-Star Filter attachments.
Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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Tree Replanting
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #264
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura CPL & 4-Star Filter attachments.
Location: Riverside 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.
Fun in the Sun
Coleman Style
Whenever the weather is nice and warm on the weekends and sometimes during the week, Coleman and I go hiking to one of the nearby Greenways. Coleman prefers being outside having Fun in the Sun anytime to being cooped up indoors.
Whenever I go outside into the Sunshine, it is, more likely than not, to watch Coleman having Fun in the Sun.
Now that Spring has arrived, Coleman has Fun in the Sun practicing T-Ball (or if you hear him say it, it would be T-Bat practice).
Some days we go to Riverside Park and Greenway, while there he likes to have Fun in the Sun playing in the Sand or being near the water.
On other days we hike down to Goat Island Park and Greenway to either hike or allow Coleman to play in the playground. Occasionally we bring along our cornhole bean bags to have some Fun in the Sun playing a round of Cornhole.
Most other times at Goat Island he play on the playground equipment swinging & twisting in & out of the ropes or convincing me to push him on the Swings for him to enjoy having Fun in the Sun.
Cosmic Photo Challenge-Fun in the sun
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max and Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250 lens.
Locations: 1-3) C.B. Huss Recreation Center; 4-7) Riverside Park and Greenway; 8-11) Goat Island Park and Greenway
God Bless. Have Fun in the Sun. Enjoy the vast beauty in nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Dan is hosting the CFFC and graciously took it over when Cee was no longer feeling the strength to continue. He has posted a wonderful tribute honoring Cee’s memory. Feel free to read it on Dan’s CFFC’s blog here.
Cars and trucks come in all different shapes. Sizes, and colors. They range from toy cars and trucks to 18-Wheelers. They can be found in museums. On and off the road and sometimes on the back of a tow truck.
Here are my entries for Cee’s Dan’s Fun Foto Challenge.
To help keep Cee’s Challenges alive including Cee’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC) check out what’s happening on the CWWC homepage here. This Friday’s CWWC theme is: Any which way with in black and white.
God Bless. Have a fantastic week. Have some Fun and enjoy the Outdoors. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
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.
Cee’s Chris’ Flower of the Day
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Gerbera jamesonii
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Center Street; Downtown Town of Cramerton, Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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This is a throwback photo my dad took back in 1972 on a visit to The Land of Oz. The Land of Oz Theme Park was once a thriving tourist attraction in Beech Mountain, North Carolina. The theme park was inspired by the Wizard of Oz. It operated from 1970 to 1980.
Janet’s One Word Sunday-Creepy
For further information about OWS check out Debbie’s One Word Sunday.
Photo Credit:©️1972 Nornal H. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Minolta XG-7 35 mm
Digitization: Wolverine Convertor
Location: The Land of Oz Theme Park; Beech Mountain, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you Janet for hosting these past three challenges. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Unusual River Sighting
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #264
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura CPL & 4-Star Filter attachments.
Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a fantastic week ahead. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Looking Outside
at the Beautiful
Afternoon View
Be sure to check out other Monday Window posts here.
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 fabulous week. 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 each week. I am posting for The Numbers Game #66-187. Judy’s rules for playing along with her Numbers Game are simple.
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 link your blog in comments below.
In lieu of numbers this week I am choosing a theme of Downtown Concert. The Downtown Concert was held in Centennial Center in Downtown Cramerton, North Carolina on Friday, March 28th.
The Opening Act for the concert was a singer named Trish England. Trish England is a Christian music artist who performs Southern Gospel, Christian Contemporary and Country music. She is originally from Austin, Texas and currently resides in Bessemer City, North Carolina. She has three (3) CD albums and releasing a single sometime this year all recorded under the Son Sound West Records.
I was really impressed by Trish’s performance. I had never heard of her before her performance in Cramerton, however, I soon realized she is an extremely talented artist who loves Jesus and loves to share her love of Jesus through her music to audiences everywhere. A few of the songs she performed were “Jesus in My Country”, “God Did It”, “Christian in the House”, “That’s God”, and “Behold the Beauty of the Lord”. My grandson, Coleman and I really enjoyed her performance and would recommend listening to her sing in concert, via Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music or which ever is your preference for listening to music online or streaming outlet.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. No reproduction or Reuse without the express consent of the copyright owner.
Cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL Filter attachments; Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: GRAHAM AND GAYLE BELL PAVILION; Centennial Center; Downtown Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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Cornus florida,
the Flowering Dogwood
Click on each image for enhanced viewing.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved
Camera:1 & 3) Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max; 2) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura 4-Star & CPL Filter attachments.
Location: Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Observe the Beauty in Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2025 Week 13
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura CPL & 4-Star filter attachments.
Location: Near South Fork Catawba River; Disc Golf Trail; Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Get Outside & Enjoy Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
The other day it was warm, but cloudy and windy. It was raining lightly when Coleman got off the school bus. We waited a half hour, the rain stopped, so we ventured down to Riverside Park and Greenway for him to play in the sand by the South Fork Catawba River.
These shots of the Sky(watch) were taken using an Altura 4 Star filter and an Altura CPL filter attachments. Occasionally, the sun tried to peek through the cloudy sky.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera:Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura CPL & 4-Star filter attachments.
Location: Riverside Park and Greenway Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stay Warm. Take care of yourself and each other. 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. All images are prohibited for use in any format without the explicit consent of the copyright.
Cameras: 1)Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max;
Location: South Fork Catawba River; Riverside Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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Coleman and I went hiking after he got home from school today (Friday). We walked downtown to Goat Island Park and Greenway. There weren’t any kids in the playground when we arrived, so I made a decision for us to hike along the trail first and then come back to the playground when we were finished hiking.
We started out along the paved hiking trail and meandered over to the dirt disc golf trail which runs simi-parallel to the South Fork Catawba River. While walking adjacent to the river, Coleman pointed out that there was a man standing in the river. This is not a normal sight when we are hiking. Therefore, we proceeded to investigate what the man was doing wading in the South Fork Catawba River.
At first, I thought the man Wading in the river was fishing even though most fishermen/women fish from one of the fishing piers or from the riverbanks. When we were close we asked the man what he was doing. It turns out that one of the disc golf catchers is on the opposite side of the river from where one is to throw the disc. According to the man wading in the river, many people miss the other side when they throw the disc across the river. So, it turns out he was searching the river for any golf discs that may have landed in the river. He had been searching for approximately twenty (20) to thirty (30) minutes when we approached him. Besides wearing waders the man was tethered to the riverbank by a rope to insure he wouldn’t be carried downstream if for some unpredictable strong wind and current tried to whisk him away. So you see, he wasn’t fishing for fish, but instead for golf discs.
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #263
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura CPL & 4-Star Filter attachments.
Location: South Fork Catawba River; 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.
Petunia Easy Wave Yellow
Today I decided to post a flower in memory of Cee’s Weekend FOTD. This past year with her declining health Cee combined Saturday/Sunday Flower of the Day into Weekend FOTD. These are three different processing images of my original Petunia Easy Wave Yellow photo image.
Original:
One:
Two:
Three:
One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-April 2025
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. No reproduction or Reuse without the express consent of the copyright owner.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Ultra Wide Camera
Location: Outside of TanninWine House; Center Street; 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.
Even though I only knew Cee for a relatively short time she had been an inspiration, an encourager, an amazing friend, and all around lovely person to call my friend. I will miss you Cee!
I’ve been participating in Cee’s blogging challenges since 2022. Not long, but seems like she’s been my friend forever. I know she’s looking down upon us and her legacy and inspiration will live on forever and always.
“Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.”
Quintus Ennius
I believe Cee knew we would cry, but also that she wouldn’t want us to wallow in weeping/mourning. I believe she would want us to remember her live and keep her legacy going on into eternity.
“People touch our lives if only for a moment, And yet we’re not the same from that moment on, The time is not important, The moment is forever.”
Fern Bork
Cee touched my life as well as many others on and off of WordPress. She will live on through each and every one of us. She has impacted our/my lives with her wisdom, kindness, compassion, and her love.
“Say not in grief ‘
Hebrew proverbheshe is no more’ but live in thankfulness thatheshe was.”
Cee may have left her earthly home, but she is not really gone. She continues to live on in our hearts and minds. Let’s keep her legacy alive and continue on with love and kindness and respect for one another.
I know my emotions and tears have been overflowing this week after hearing the news regarding Cee. I will never regret knowing Cee & sharing in her photo challenges, sharing comments & soaking in her advice and knowledge. Even though we never met in person, I feel like I knew her (at least a part of her) and know that I loved her, her spirit, her courage, and her passion. May she continue to live on through all of us.
God Bless. Thinking & prayers for you, Chris & family. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
P.S. I’ve tried working on this ever since I read Becky’s guest post from Chris. I’ve cried, I’ve tried to write & I’ve cried some more. I wrote a little more & than I had Chris’ post on Cee’s blog & I cried some more and even as I complete this post. I will always remember Cee and how she touched my life.
I am dedicating this Which Way Challenge (CWWC) in Memory of Cee Neuner who loved photographing flowers and hosted several challenges over her blogging career. With that in mind I have chosen to have my Which Way theme of Any Which Way with Flowers (Flower Pathways).
For other Which Ways you might like to check out the following posts:
TGERIATRIX’s Which Way with shades of green
TGERIATRIX’s Which Way with bridges
Deb’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC)-Any Which Way (Your Choice)
God Bless. Please keep Chris in your thoughts & Prayers. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Wildflowers for Cee
When I first saw the theme was “It’s a Wild Life” I wasn’t sure what I wanted to post for this week. Reading about Cee’s passing sealed the idea for me. Hence, I settled on the Wildlife of Wildflowers displaying a variety of Wildflowers for Cee.
Wildlife of Wildflowers:
Bonus: My Wild One
Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #342-It’s a Wild Life!
Photo Credit: ©️2022-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Prayers for Chris Donner (Cee’s Chris). Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Centennial Center
I’m not usually out at early evening or night time. I have trouble seeing in the dark so Coleman and I are usually always back home before it turns dark. This past Friday, The Town of Cramerton was having a Concert in Centennial Center Park. The Concert did not start until six in the evening, which is still light due to the time change to Daylight Saving Time.
I wanted Coleman to experience the Concert in the park, so we went. We arrived early and found a suitable spot to lay our blanket and sit in the grassy area.
While waiting for the Concert to begin, I snapped shots of the area both with my camera and my iPhone. I shot all these using my iPhone’s fusion camera and captured the area in black and white. Other Special Events will take place the last Friday of each month through the end of Summer. I’ll think about us attending those events when the time comes nearer.
Here are some of what I captured Friday evening.
Ritva’s Monochrome Madness #31-Night Time
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Centennial Center; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Enjoy the Outdoors. Have a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
A Gaggle of Canada Geese
On Sunday, Coleman and I stopped by Goat Island Park and Greenway on the way back home. We were delighted to spot the Canada Geese enjoying themselves on the water of the South Fork Catawba River.
Now that Spring is here and days are approaching the warmer temperatures, we are seeing the Canada Geese more often than we had previously. Sometimes we see larger Gaggle of Canada Geese than we did on this particular day. Most often we see them entering and swimming in pairs. Therefore, seeing three swimming together was a fantastic moment to capture.
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #263
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: South Fork Catawba River; Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy the Spring Sunshine and have fun. 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 16 Pro Max
Location: Centennial Center; Downtown Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a wonderful day. Thank you for visiting and your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Janet from This, that and the other thing is this week’s host for One Word Sunday with a theme of Metalwork. My take on Metalwork is displaying Metal Artwork.
I’ve chosen to post photos of Metal Artwork I captured when visiting my Aunt in Abilene, Texas in 2020. The following are my entries for this week’s One Word Sunday challenge.
Janet’s One Word Sunday – Metalwork
Natalie’s Public Art Challenge
Photo Credit:©️2020 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max
Location: S. First Street & S. Treadaway Boulevard; Abilene, Texas, USA
God Bless. Take Care. Prayers for Chris. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
The Graham & Gayle Bell Pavilion
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: The Graham & Gayle Bell Pavilion; The Centennial Center; 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.
“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”
—Oswald Chambers
May You always be guided by knowledge of God’s Word. We may not always understand the path set before us, but we can always trust His plan is better than anything we can plan ourselves. May You have Strength to follow as He directs your steps.
Photo Credit: © 2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: The Centennial Center; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting. Have a wonderful week and enjoy nature. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
I have dug through my archives to see what I might be able to use for this week’s challenge. Hopefully those will work well for the Signs and Navigation Aids theme.
Navigating the Lines outside the Library:
Paying Attention to Trail Signs:
Following the Road Arrows in Germany:
Dan’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC)-Signs and Navigation Aids
Photo Credit: 1-4) ©️2020-2023 Deb L. Waters; 5-6) ©️1979 Nornal H. Waters … 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.
Brian from Bushboys World is the host for the Last on the Card Challenge. The rules are simple, just post the last photo from SD card and/or the #lastphoto from your phone. It doesn’t matter if it was taken on the 31st or not. It can be The Last Photo whenever it was taken. No editing. No explanations needed. Create a Pingback to this post or link in the comments. Use the tags The Last Photo and #LastOnTheCard.
Here’s my Last Photos for March.
From my Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
From my Canon EOS Rebel T3i
Brian’s #LastontheCard-2025 March
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Location: Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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Verbascum thapsus
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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Celebrating Spring with Children’s sports through the C.B. Huss Recreation Center Complex. Spring is time for Baseball or in Coleman’s case T-Ball. Spring is time to Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Coleman’s T-Ball practices began on Saturday, March 8th.
Look closely & you might spot Coleman in the infield.
Coaches hitting balls for the players to practice fielding the ball.
Coleman waiting in the infield, T-ball approaching, and Coleman’s got the ball.
Great job at practice, Coleman. Till next time, have a funtastic week.
Terri’s Sunday Stills-Celebrate Spring or Autumn
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: CB Huss Recreation Complex; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Play Ball. Take a Walk. Enjoy the Outdoors. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
On Sunday morning, Coleman and I visited a local church. We were surprised to see one particular parishioner in attendance. His name is Teddy and he is a dog. That’s right I said a dog. I know, you’re thinking what’s a dog doing in a church? I did think it was strange, never saw a dog in a church before. Teddy, the canine parishioner, appeared to be an emotional support dog accompanying the elder gentleman wherever he went. Anyone care to Pull Up a Seat next to Teddy? We sat behind Teddy during the church service.
Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 13
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Cramerton Independent Presbyterian Church; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Grateful for Freedom to Worship. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Looking Out from Within
A Glance to the left …
A Glance to the right …
Be sure to check out other Monday Window posts here.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Cramerton Independent Presbyterian Church; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a fabulous week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
O! Say can you see …
O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?(1)
‘Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.(1)
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.(1)
And the star-spangled Banner in triumph shall wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.(1)
And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave
While the land of the free is the home of the brave!(1)
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. All images are prohibited for use in any format without the explicit consent of the copyright.
Cameras: 1-2) Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max; 3-4) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL Filter attachments.
Location: Centennial Center; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thankful for freedom and friends. 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:Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL Filter attachments.
Location: Centennial Center; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Observe the Beauty in Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
While Coleman was playing in the backyard he was talking about our landlord’s birdbath and then I noticed the bench sitting within the same Junk Pile. Never know what one might find in a junk pile. One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.
I’m posting these benches for Jude’s Bench Anniversary Challenge and Xingfu Mama’s Pull Up a Seat Challenge.
Jude’s Bench Anniversary Challenge
Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 13
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 wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Coleman’s Pre-Concert Activity
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL Filter attachments.
Location: The Center; Downtown Cramerton; 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.
We live in walking proximity to several access entrances to the South Fork Catawba River, so Coleman and I visit the River often. On this particular day, we accessed one of the back access points which, I believe, is seldom visited by the majority of visitors to Goat Island Park and Greenway.
Here are the Ripples and Reflections we enjoyed seeing on our visit to the South Fork Catawba River.
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #262
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL Filter attachments.
Location: South Fork Catawba River; Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy Nature. Capture the All around you. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Here this week’s questions:
Gratitude:
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Share Your World-24 March 2025
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
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. Stay Warm. Take care of yourself and each other. 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. Another week has passed and we’re almost through with one-quarter (1/4) of 2025. Hope you’re all doing well and will be joining in on the Which Way Challenge .
This week I have chosen a theme of Bridges. As you can see from my images the Bridges can be of a variety of types from Road Bridges to Swinging Bridges to Garden Bridges. Any type of Bridge will be suitable for this post.
Here are my entries for this week’s Which Way Challenge.
Swinging Bridges:
Road Bridges & Trellises:
Trail Bridges:
Throwback Bridges:
Be sure to check out these other Which Ways. Thank you for participating in the Which Way Challenge.
Tgeriatrix’s Animals on the road
GERIATRI’X’ FOTOGALLERY’s ANIMALS ON THE ROAD
Deb’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC)-Any Which Way with Bridges
Photo Credit: 1-8) ©️2022-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Have a funtastic weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
“People are not cactuses, they need plenty of water and, when talking about friendship, the water is our time.”
~ Birute Sol
“Life is full of prickly situations. Handle them with care.”
Cactus Quotes
“Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
God Bless. 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.
Follow the Leader
in Kayaking
the River
Springtime in the Carolinas brings kayakers to the river for Funtime paddling in the water with rays of sunshine bringing warmth and tranquility to their lives.
Three kayakers in kayaks as seen from the banks of the South Fork Catawba River as Coleman and I were hiking the Disc Golf Trail parallel to the river. We watched the fellow in the red kayak maneuver his kayak away from the River bank and paddle to catch up with the other two kayakers to continue joining them on their adventure downstream.
Thursday Trios — Follow the Leader
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #262
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL Filter attachments.
Location: South Fork Catawba River; Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Enjoy the Spring Sunshine and have fun. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Skillet Southern Bistro
Center Street in Downtown Cramerton is the central location hub for get togethers and dining. The image below is of one of the many eating establishments that people gather for some fine dining experiences.
We mostly prefer to eat at home and not waste our resources on eating out at restaurants. Therefore, I cannot personally substantiate or invalidate the claims of being a highly recommended restaurant. However, from everything I hear about the restaurant, the food is high quality and the service is exceptional.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL Filter attachments.
Location: 119 Center Street; Downtown Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a wonderful day. Thank you for visiting and your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Spring Garden
Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden
Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stop and admire the Beautiful Flowers. Thank you visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Autumn? Or Spring?
Northern Mockingbird
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. Images were taken this Spring. Have a lovely Spring day. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
