Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography
This blog is for my insights on life, the Bible, hiking adventures with my grandson and whatever is important to me
“Have you ever watched a Water Lily grow?
Abigal Wieser
They are creatures of the light. Slowly, they unfold their bodies and offer their
scented song to the world.”
FlowersBloomHope.com
“Let us rise above the muck and live gracefully in the light of this world instead of mired in its darkness.”
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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.
Narcissus hispanicus
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Carolina Thread Trail; Riverside Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stop and Enjoy the Beautiful Flowers. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Oenothera fruticosa
Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Cramer Mountain; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stop and Smell the Flowers. Enjoy the beauty in Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
This week our weather has been fickle, sorta topsy-turvy not knowing whether it wants to be warm or freezing or somewhere in between. It has been flip-flopping back and forth from one day to the next. I wish it’d just decide to be warm and stay that way. I’m tired of the freezing cold brisk winds and rainy days we’ve been experiencing.
Below demonstrates how our weather can be fickle in just a short time frame (one day).
It flip-flopped from rainy to warm & cloudy back to dark rain clouds with more rain on the way. It makes it hard to know when it’s warm enough for Coleman to play outside. On this day outside playing didn’t last long with the tempting rain clouds bearing down upon us.
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.
Historic Baltimore School Doors
This Historic Baltimore School is a little less than a mile walk from our home. Coleman and I visited here last weekend. The school building is in bad shape, however, funds are being raised to restore and preserve the school building. It already has Historic recognition and is awaiting the necessary funds to begin the restoration process. It will be used as a community center and museum once it is restored.
Restoration and Preservation is necessary for future generations to learn and understand the historical structure significance of the Baltimore Village School. To learn and understand why there was such a need for the school and how people and society’s views back then were so dramatically different than they are today.
I didn’t live in this area back during that time period. I do remember when buses were used to transport black students from one neighbourhood to another to integrate the schools. Times were definitely different back in the day.
Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max and Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV Filter attachment.
Location: Historic Baltimore School; Historic Baltimore Village; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Take a Walk. Visit an Historic Site. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Can You Help Me Out Here?
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16Pro Max
Location: View from Front Porch; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a marvellous day. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time 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: Back Porch; 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.
Northern Mockingbird
Bird Watching on a Cold Rainy Day
Northern Mockingbird watching 👀.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16Pro Max
Location: View from Front Porch; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a marvellous day. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
February 10, 2025
Judy Dykstra-Brown hosts The Numbers Game challenge each week. This week is Game #60 and the number is 181.
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.
This week I am choosing to use a theme of Playground focusing on the CLT Airport Overlook playground in Charlotte, North Carolina. Coleman enjoyed playing in CLT Charlotte Douglas International) Airport Overlook’s Playground. He kept zipping to and fro checking out all the various playground equipment and all the unique places to Pull Up a Seat.
Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 6
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: CLT Airport Overlook Playground; CLT Airport Overlook; Charlotte Douglas International Airport; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Enjoy your day. Have a fabulous week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
US Air Flight
1016 Memorial
The U.S. Air Flight 1016 Memorial honors the people who died on board the flight from Columbia, S.C. to Charlotte on July 2, 1994. The Memorial includes a plaque in memory of those who died or were injured and those who helped rescue efforts. The Memorial is located in a section of the CLT (Charlotte Douglas International) Airport Overlook in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The U.S. Air Flight 1016 crashed in Charlotte 30 1/2 years ago. During that horrific crash in 1994 thirty-seven (37) of the fifty-seven (57) people on board died. The people in Charlotte and the surrounding areas have not forgotten.
On July 2, 1994, the flight encountered heavy thunderstorms and microburst-induced windshear while attempting to land, and crashed into heavy trees and a private residence near the airport. The crash and ensuing Fire caused 37 fatalities and seriously injured 20 people.
The New CLT Airport Overlook Memorial was designed to represent Morse Code for CAE (Columbia) and CLT, the origin and destination airports for the flight. It includes a plaque in memory of those who died or were injured and those who helped rescue efforts.
This past Tuesday Coleman, my daughter Trisha, and I paid a visit to the CLT Airport Overlook to allow Coleman to play in the Overlook’s new playground. While there we also visited the U.S. Air Flight 1016 Memorial. The reverse side of the pillar about U.S. Air Flight 1016 lists the names of the thirty-seven (37) people who died in the crash.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16Pro Max
Location: CLT Airport Overlook; Charlotte Douglas International Airport; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. 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: CLT Airport Overlook Playground; Charlotte Douglas International Airport; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a marvelous day. 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 Spatial Setting
Location: Airport Overlook; Charlotte Douglas International Airport; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
The Cosmic Photo Challenge prompt for this week is Black and White. Looking through this past week’s photos from Coleman and my visit to Goat Island Park and Greenway, I found few that I think would work for this challenge.
Here is what I have chosen for this week’s CPC prompt.
Now to show some of what I took today of Coleman using my new iPhone 16 Pro Max.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1-5) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 6-8) iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: 1-5) Cramerton, North Carolina; 6-8) AT&T Store, Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography 