2024 CMMC: October Week 1 — Close Up or Macro

Close-Ups Around the Greenway

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up or Macro

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

Cameras: 1-2) iPhone 13 Pro; 3-4) Canon EOS Rebel T3i

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

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

2024 CMMC: Close Up or Macro — Renewal

Renew may mean something different for each one of us whether it be being new again, being refreshed, or becoming strong once again. We all see and experience being renewed and refreshed every single year, every month, every day, and possibly every single minute.

I’m combining Cee’s CMMC & Becky’s Square Challenges for this post.

Let’s take time to relax, refresh and renew ourselves at Glen Ivy Hot Springs.

Glen Ivy Hot Springs is a resort in Riverside County, California that has been in existence since 1860. That’s 164 years of history that has attracted many visitors to visit their mineral springs. People come seeking the benefits of nature, water and exercise. It is a pleasurable experience enjoying time of relaxation, renewal, and a deep sense of wellbeing which the hot springs can bring.

Close-up of the turtles
and fishes in the Pond

Glen Ivy Hot Springs Resort offers many options for you to relax, renew, and restore your body. Those options include experiencing the Mineral Springs, the Grotto, and Club Mud.

The Mineral Bath entails spending 15 minutes soaking in the 104 degree geothermal waters. The sulfur-rich springs ease joint pain and soften the skin. These waters have powerful healing effects on the body and soul.

The Grotto experience is the resort’s Subterranean Treatment. It is a part of  your skin softening, sensuous and subterranean journey. For this subterranean journey you descend into their secret cave and are painted neck-to-toe with a warm aloe vera, coconut oil, eucalyptus, shea butter and lavender masque. Your body is warmed in this gently heated cavern while your skin soaks in the silky formula as your body heats and your pores open.

Club Mud combines the detoxifying benefits of our geothermal mineral water with local red clay mud.  The mud blends into a silky soft paste with our mineral water. Let the mud dry by baking in the sun or in our warm ‘Wafa’ cave. When the dried mud becomes loose and flaky, you simply wash it off noticing a baby-soft feeling on your skin.

A day at Glen Ivy Hot Springs is a unique experience. Who doesn’t need a little pampering once in a while. Be prepared though, the pampering at Glen Ivy doesn’t come cheap. They do offer many different options and plans to choose from. Everyone can find an affordable option to participate in this unique experience. Reservations are required.

If you’re coming from out of the area you might choose to stay just a short distance ( 2 minute drive or 10 minute walk) away in the Glen Ivy RV Park. Staying in the RV park is an opportunity to be close to nature and is a relaxing opportunity as well. If you’re inclined to visit Southern California, Glen Ivy Hot Springs is a fantastic and unique experience not to be overlooked. This is an experience and memory from the mid- nineteen eighties, when I lived in the Riverside County area of Southern California.

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up or Macro

Becky’s #SquaresRenew Challenge-May

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

2024 CMMC: March — Close Up or Macro

These close-ups were all captured during mine & Coleman’s latest visit to (I was so worried you lay down. You don’t just – Apple iPhone’s Siri trying to type what was said to my grandson, oops) our local museum’s nature trail.

We started this visit with a walk through the Dinosaurs Exhibitions …

Stegosaurus Plates

Then we moved on the Nature Trail and a walk around the Pond …

Turtles & their Reflections

And ended our visit with a stroll through the Garden in The Farm …


Great Mullein

Verbascum thapsus

New life is slowly starting to arrive and in the next few weeks new growth will begin to emerge in abundance.

Ranunculus acris
Common Buttercup

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up or Macro

Cee’s FOTD

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

Cameras: 1/2) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 3/4) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.

Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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

2024 CMMC: Close Up or Macro

Let’s talk turkey, nah let me show you more green. This time a close-up view of green plants in the Farm Garden at The Schiele Museum.

Here’s a look at my contributions for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge of Close Up or Macro.

Turkey feathers
Verbascum thapsus
Common Mullein
Sedum Coccinea
AKA Stonecrop

or Dragon’s Blood

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up or Macro

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 18-55mm and Canon EF-S55-250mm lenses.

Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.

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

2024 CMMC: Close Up or Macro

Cabbage

1/250 • 194mm • ISO 160
Canon EF-S55-250mm lens
1/200 • 146mm • ISO 400
Canon EF-S55-250mm lens
1/100 • 55mm • ISO 200
Canon EF-S55-250mm lens

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up or Macro

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens

Location: The Garden in The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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

2023 CMMC: Close Up or Macro

My entries this week for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge we’re all taken when Coleman and I went hiking at one of his favorite places, Anne Springs Close Greenway.

Muhlenbergia capillaris
(Hair-awn or Pink Muhly)
Checking you out …
The Gulf fritillary
or passion butterfly
(Dione vanillae)
on Zinnias

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up or Macro

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 55-250 mm lens.

Location: Horse Stables Entrance; 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.