This blog is for my insights on life, the Bible, hiking adventures with my grandson and whatever is important to me
Sunday Stills-Tiny or Small
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Please don’t troll on by, stop and have a look. Trolling doesn’t always have a negative connotation. Fishermen troll the waters while trying to catch fish. Bargain Hunters troll Flea Markets and Yard Sales for terrific finds to take home.
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #258: Fences
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Have you ever had surgery? What for?
Surgeries, Have I had any? Yes, I have had a few surgeries. The first one I know about was a tonsillectomy when I was around seven years old. I do not recall much about it, except for knowing I had the surgery to remove my infected tonsils. The next surgery that I can remember was for a Laparoscopy. This was a selective surgery I chose after my sixth pregnancy, which would (and has) prevented me from getting pregnant again. Even though I had six pregnancies, I only gave birth to three living children. The third and last surgery which occurred was after an accident in 1996. That surgery was to fix a broken leg. During the surgery a titanium rod was inserted to connect the bones and enable me to walk. It took months for me to regain the use of my leg, but it has been fully healed and i am able to hike many miles with my grandson nowadays. I do need a future surgery, but not sure when it will occur. The future surgery will be to remove cataracts from my eyes, the first being my left eye which I am almost blind causing me to rely on my right eye to see practically everything. This problem, however, does not prevent me from my photography, hiking, reading, or blogging.
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Debbies One Word Sunday: Three
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Alive and Trekking’s Which Way challenge
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Location: Anne Springs Close Greenway, Dairy Barn Entrance, Fort Mill, South Carolina
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Johns Cellpic Sunday
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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The following are the two photos I’ve been enjoy on my desktop from June 16 through the present July 15th.
Clare’s Share Your Desktop
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Camera: 1st – Canon EOS Rebel T3i 2nd – iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge – July Magenta Color
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters
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Cee’s Black and White Challenge – Two Items
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Have you ever seen a metal driver’s license? I had never seen one before myself until I started going through my dad’s old photo albums. This particular album had various items my dad saved over the years.
According to the South Carolina Department of Public Safety, from 1933 to 1957, motorists were required to carry their South Carolina driver’s license on a stamped brass tag, usually carried on a key ring. This required drivers to turn off the ignition to show an officer their license. The brass tags were not used during the time immediately before and after World War II when metals were scarce.
The stamped brass South Carolina Driver’s License Tag included the year of expiration on top, followed by the driver’s name, address, city, & state. On the bottom of the Brass Tag is stamped South Carolina Driver’s License.
My dad’s Brass South Carolina Driver’s License tag was definitely an interesting item for me to discover. I have barely started going through this photo album with the various items he saved over the years. Stay tuned for more interesting discoveries.
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Nature Photo Challenge #20: Black
Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters
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Located in the Catawba Indian Village at The Schiele Museum of Natural History’s Nature Trail in Gastonia, North Carolina. This was the first time I stepped inside the hut to see the interior space. I was surprised and delighted to see the exhibits located in its interior.
Leannes Monochrome Madness
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Here are this week’s questions:
1. How do you like your coffee/tea? I’m an iced tea drinker. I drink unsweetened tea. I keep water in the fridge (not commercially bottled) to make my tea and I don’t actually put ice in it. Sometimes I will add flavoring like peach 🍑, mango 🥭, or raspberry.
2. Are you a dunker (of biscuits/cookies)? I am not a dunker of any kind. I never felt the need to soften biscuits or cookies and certainly don’t like anything of any sort in any of my drinks.
3. What is your favourite biscuit/cookie? My favourite biscuits are Honey-butter biscuits. My favorite cookies are simply called “Grandfather’s Favorites. They are a homemade cookie made from my grandmother’s recipe.
4. Have you ever baked your own biscuits/cookies? Yes, I have baked my own homemade biscuits and cookies. Unfortunately, my favorite homemade cookies I do not bake much right now because my grandson is lactose intolerant and it calls for sour milk. Normally buttermilk has been substituted for the sour milk.
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Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2023-Week 28
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Subject: Trisha Lynn Wilson, my daughter and Coleman’s mom.
Location: Playscape, The Schiele Museum, Gastonia, North Carolina
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Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge-Side of Any Item
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Lens-Artists Challenge #257: Simplicity Photography
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i
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CosPhoChal-Shadows and Silhouettes
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Schiele Museum Farm, Gastonia, North Carolina
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Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
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Ludwigs Monday Windows
Photo Credit : Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300mm lens. Settings: f/5.6 ISO125 1/160s 105mm
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What is your favorite genre of music?
Today’s Daily Prompt is asking what our favorite genre of music happens to be. I know mine has changed over the years. I enjoy a variety of genres including jazz, classical, pop, classic rock (from the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s), country, blue grass, and gospel. At the present time my favourite genre of music is southern gospel. Some of my favourite southern gospel artists include Ivan Parker, The Revelators Quartet, Kings Cause, and Russ Adair. I also love to hear Randy Travis sing southern gospel and country.
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Johns Cellpic Sunday
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Sunday Stills: Color Prompt- Blue (Any Shade)
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Debbies One Word Sunday: Two
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Location: Last 2 – Rankin Lake Park, Gastonia, North Carolina Shot on Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
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WHATSOEVER IS LOVELY CHALLENGE-2023 WEEK 27
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters. All Rights Reserved
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
Location: Wildflower Garden, Anne Springs Close Greenway, Fort Mill, South Carolina
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XingfuMama’s One to Three Processing Challenge: July 2023
Photo Credit: (c) Deb L, Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300mm lens. All effects were done on my Canon EOS Rebel T3i.
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge (FOTD)
Photo Credit: (c) Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Schiele Museum, Grist Mill Area, Gastonia, North Carolina
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Soaring through the Clouds:
My grandson kept watching the skies today. He has amazing vision and can see much better than I, so much so he’ll point to where things are in the vast sky when I can only hear and am unable to see. He recognises the sound of airplanes ✈️ and wants me to capture them on camera. Unfortunately I only had the camera on my iPhone today. You’ll need to click on each photo and look closely by zooming, if necessary, to be able to the various images of aeroplanes.
Hammad Rais’s Weekend Sky #106
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon EF75-300mm lens.
Location Rankin Lake Park, Gastonia, North Carolina
Leannes Monochrome Madness
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These particular Venus Fly Trap plants are on display in an aquarium in The Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium in Gastonia, North Carolina.
Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD) Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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RDP TUESDAY-Ferns
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Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max and Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300mm Lens
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Boats:
Bikes:
Balloons:
Cee’s Black and White Challenge
Leanne’s Monochrome Madness
Mid-Week Monochrome
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Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge
Photo Credit: (c) Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon EF75-300mm lens.
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Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Today in America 🇺🇸 we celebrate our country’s Independence from the rule of Great Britain which was won through the American Revolution. America’s Independence was voted favorably by the Continental Congress on July 2nd, 1776. The Declaration of Independence was adopted by the delegates two days later. The delegates represented each of the original thirteen colonies. Since 1776, July Fourth has been celebrated as the birth of the American Independence. It is celebrated by many with a variety of festivities ranging from fireworks, parades and concerts to more casual family gatherings and barbecues.
What are some of the Freedoms we celebrate?
As we celebrate with friends and family today, we also remember cost of our liberty.
Independence Day is more than a holiday; it’s a symbol of our freedom won by the bravery of countless men and women who have laid down their lives for this nation.
So, as you celebrate today, I encourage you to remember the cost of the freedom we celebrate, the Heroes who paid the ultimate price, and the resilience that defines us as a nation.
Let us also remember, if you shoot off fireworks, the affects they have on others ( humans and animals alike).
Cats and dogs both experience sounds at far greater intensity than humans. Fireworks appear for them as discordant noise without warning. Horses’ innate fear responses can take over when they hear fireworks. The dangers are serious for wild animals like birds, squirrels, frogs and fish too.
The negative impacts of fireworks extend beyond animals — they can also trigger refugees and veterans as well as others who suffer from PTSD.
No matter how or if you celebrate the Fourth of July, let us take time to remember the cost of the freedom we celebrate, the Heroes who paid the ultimate price, and the resilience that defines us as a nation.
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While Coleman and I were visiting The Schiele Museum Nature Trail; I took several shots of Coleman’s actions.
Cosmic Photo Challenge-Three shots from one spot.
Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Natural Amazement, The Schiele Museum of Natural History’s Nature Trail, The Schiele Museum of Natural History and Planetarium, Gastonia, North Carolina
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Back of Firetrucks:
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: North 321 VFD Station 10, Lincolnton, North Carolina
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Here are this week’s questions:
Di is our gracious host for Share Your World
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These historic cabin windows are attached to the Crook Graham Cabin. The cabin is located at Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, South Carolina.
What makes these windows and this cabin historic, you might wonder? Let me tell you a little something about the significance of this particular historic cabin. The Crook Graham Cabin once belonged to Billy Graham’s paternal grandfather, William Crook Graham. He lived in a log house in Fort Mill, South Carolina, Billy Graham’s hometown.
The Graham Cabin is preserved on the Anne Springs Close Greenway a few miles south of Charlotte, North Carolina and is open to the public.
William Crook Graham later acquired acreage along a dirt track called Park Road, that land became a dairy farm.
These photos were taken of the right side of the cabin and the upper front window. On the front side of the cabin are wooden rocking chairs for visitors to relax and enjoy the views. My grandson, Coleman loves to take a break from hiking and relax on one of the rocking chairs for a bit.
Ludwigs Monday Windows
Terri’s Sunday Stills – Historical
Photo Credit: (c) Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon EF75-300mm lens.
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After a week of solid rainfall Coleman and I were itching to get outside to roam around in nature. It was decided on Friday that we should be adventurous, after errands were completed. Our errands took us down to Lancaster which is an hour and a half away from our current home. Coleman was being extremely patient, he deserved a break on the way make home. Therefore, to relieve his itch to run around, we stopped at one of his favorite places.
What is that favorite place, you ask? It is the expansive Anne Springs Close Greenway. It was an extremely hot 🥵 and humid summer day. We walked around along the trails, across the swinging bridge, and up to the Wildflower Meadow to observe which flowers were thriving.
These coneflowers are common in the Mountains and the western Piedmont of the Carolinas. They are abundantly growing throughout the Greenway’s grounds.
We took a short break for a bite to eat at the Greenway’s Canteen. Enjoying the cool air was nice, but Coleman was itching for a different kind of relief from the hot 🥵 sunny summer weather. What kind of relief do you think he was desiring?
He was itching to get relief splashing in the water at the Greenway’s Spillway. The Spillway was low, however, it still produced enough water flowing across for many to cool 😎 off and enjoy a splashing 💦 wonderfully amazing good time. Coleman delighted in sloshing and splashing through the Spillway’s water 💦.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
John’s Cellpic Sunday
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Here you go I’ll pose for you. Which side do you think is my best side? The Left or the Right? Or maybe you need to take a closer look? I think I like the close-up view the best. How about you?
Photo Credit: (c)Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300mm lens
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These coneflowers are native to North America, and there are nine known species of Echinacea. Echinos is Greek for “hedgehog” or “sea urchin” which is reflective of the plants spiny center cone. Pallida is Latin and translated means “pale.” This is in reference to their petal color which is a pale pink-purple.
Interesting Medicinal Information:
Echinacea was first used by Native Americans for treatment of insect stings and bites as well as snake bites. Currently, Echinacea is used to prevent colds, flu, and other respiratory tract infections. It has also been proven to boost the immune system and treat urinary tract infections. Echinacea preparations can also be topically applied for wounds or skin problems. The roots and whole plant possess a cortisone-like antibacterial property.
WHATSOEVER IS LOVELY CHALLENGE-2023 WEEK 26
Terri’s Sunday Stills Challenge
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
Location: Wildflower Garden, Anne Springs Close Greenway, Fort Mill, South Carolina
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Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300mm lens
Location: Anne Springs Close Greenway, Dairy Barn Entrance, Fort Mill, South Carolina
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From my iPhone 14 Pro Max:
From my Canon EOS Rebel T3i:
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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