

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for visiting my blog. I appreciate y’all.
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


Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for visiting my blog. I appreciate y’all.





The Weekend Sky changed throughout the day as my Grandson, Coleman, and I were hiking 🥾. By the time we were finishing our hike around the Lake at Crowders Mountain State Park; the gray clouds started rolling across the sky and later the rains 🌧️ began pouring down upon us.

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Cameras: iPhone 14 Pro Max and Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Altura Macro Wide-Angle Fisheye Lens for Canon.
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for visiting. I appreciate y’all.

Ludwigs Monday Windows
Photo Credit : Deb L. Waters
God Bless. Thank you for following along with my blog. I appreciate y’all.


Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
God Bless. Thank you for visiting the Greenway with me. I appreciate y’all.
Natalie’s Photographing Public Art Challenge
John’s Cellpic Sunday
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.
The Schiele Museum has many different types of artifacts in their many exhibit collections. My grandson loves the Dinosaur Exhibits. However, today I want to bring attention to The Henry Hall of the American Indian Exhibit.

The Schiele Museum of Natural History was established in 1961. From its very beginning, it has been a steward of Native American material culture and artifacts.

The Founders of the Museum, Bud and Lilly Schiele, donated agricultural tools, jewelry, and other items from Native groups across the country to form the basis of the museum’s collections.

The Exhibit tells stories of migrant Indians across North America, including in the southeast, northeast, southwest, far west and the plains. In each of these areas the curators present Native American perspectives. The Henry Hall addresses Native American views of nature and society depicting their differing views from their European and American counterparts. The Native American Advisory Committee provided assistance in developing mutually acceptable policies and procedures for collections, exhibitions, and programs.
I found the Henry Hall of the American Indian really interesting and unlike any others. The Schiele Museum has a section along its Nature Trail depicting an example of a Catawba Indian Village. The Catawba Indian Village was also interesting to see the types of homes they once lived in.
The Schiele Museum is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm; Saturday 10 am to 5 pm; and on Sunday from 1 to 5 pm. All are welcome to visit for a minimal charge. It is well worth the visit. My grandson loves it and we would highly recommend everyone to come and visit the museum.
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time visiting the Henry Hall of the American Indian Exhibits with us. I appreciate y’all.

WHATSOEVER IS LOVELY CHALLENGE-2023 WEEK 23
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max f1.78 48mm ISO80
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.



Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for visiting my blog. I appreciate y’all.


Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge
Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.




Leanne’s Monochrome Madness
Bren’s Mid-Week Monochrome
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
God Bless. Thank you for visiting. I appreciate y’all.


Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for visiting my blog. I appreciate y’all.


Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for visiting my blog. I appreciate y’all.


Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Ultra Wide Angle f/2.2 13mm
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate y’all.


Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.

Natalie’s Photographing Public Art Challenge
John’s Cellpic Sunday
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.
Views of the sky over the Warlick YMCA in Gastonia, North Carolina:






Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.
From my Canon EOS Rebel T3i:

From my iPhone 14 Pro Max:

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: (c)Deb L. Waters
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.
My any kind of seating involves any seating that Coleman deems acceptable for a place for him to sit. His choices of seating are not always what I would choose, but hey, if he’s happy with his choice of seating who am I to say it’s not his kind of seating.






Cee’s Black and White Challenge
Leanne’s Monochrome Madness
Bren’s Mid-Week Monochrome
XingfuMama’s Pull Up a Seat Photo Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
God Bless. Thank you for allowing me to share Coleman’s choices for his any kind of seating. I appreciate y’all.
This week’s selections come from the Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, South Carolina. These were taken when I took my grandson, Coleman to visit the horses he so enjoys visiting. Most of the horses were in or near the stables. You can see in slide three, the horses do love to run around in the pasture.
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for visiting the trio’s of horses with Coleman and myself. I appreciate y’all.

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for visiting my blog. I appreciate y’all.

Echinacea Sombrero Salsa Red displays single rows of drooping, deep orange-red ray petals around a sombrero-shaped, orange-brown cone. The lightly fragrant flowers attract butterflies! They provide long lasting color in the garden.

These are reded daisy-like flowers with dark cones and are produced on strong, well branched stems. Echinacea is well known for its large, daisy-like flowers. It is a bold, sturdy perennial sporting flowers with a large cone-shaped center, hence its common name of Coneflower.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Settings: f/2.2 1/381 2.22mm ISO40
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.






Avon and Catawba Creeks Greenway
Cosmic Photo Challenge: I’ll see you in the trees.
Posting for Alive & Trekking’s Which Way Photo Challenge.
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for Trekking with us. I appreciate y’all.

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
God Bless. Thank you for visiting the Greenway with me. I appreciate y’all.






Terri’s Sunday Stills Challenge.
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #177
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for visiting. I appreciate y’all.


John’s Cellpic Sunday
Kate’s Whatsoever Is Lovely Challenge.
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.

It is also known by African Arrowroot, Arrowroot, Canna, Edible Canna, and Wild Canna Lily among a few other names.
The rhizomes of cannas are rich in starch, and have many uses in agriculture. All of the plant material has commercial value, rhizomes for starch (consumption by humans and livestock), stems and foliage for animal fodder, young shoots as a vegetable, and young seeds as an addition to tortillas.
Other interesting uses include the hard black seeds of the Arrowroot having been used in the 19th century as bullets when ammunition was limited. The seeds are also used for making jewelry and musical instruments such as rattles.
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for visiting my blog. I appreciate y’all.




Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.



The Brahman is an American breed of zebuine-taurine hybrid beef cattle. Zebuine (Asian humped) cattle were present in the United States from 1849, when a single bull of Indian origin was imported from the United Kingdom to South Carolina. Cross-breeding of these with local taurine cows was the first step in the creation of the Brahman breed.


Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for visiting the Farm Animals with me. I appreciate y’all.

Echinacea purpurea is recognisable by its purple cone-shaped flowers. It is native to eastern North America and present to some extent in the wild in much of the eastern, southeastern and midwest United States. It is often known as the purple coneflower.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Horse Stables Entrance, Anne Springs Close Greenway
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.




Coleman & I went hiking along the Avon and Catawba Creeks Greenway and spotted the sand and water underneath the bridge. He loves looking at the water and sand fascinates him. He would have loved to go down and play in it.
While he was watching the movement of the water, I decided to play around the the different black and white settings on my iPhone. The above photos are the results.
Leanne’s Monochrome Madness
Bren’s Mid-Week Monochrome
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
God Bless. Thank you for visiting. I appreciate y’all.



Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for visiting. I appreciate y’all.
















Posting for Alive & Trekking’s Which Way Photo Challenge.
God Bless. Thank you for Trekking with us. I appreciate y’all.

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for visiting my blog. I appreciate y’all.






Amy of Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
God Bless. Thank you for observing my Skyscapes/Cloudscapes. I appreciate y’all.







Terri’s Sunday Stills Challenge.
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time with us. I appreciate y’all.
Saturday Evening:

Sunday Afternoon:



God bless. Thank you for visiting. I appreciate y’all.



Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max 24mm f1.78
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for visiting. I appreciate y’all.

Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Main Camera —- 24mm f1.78
God Bless. Thank you for visiting. I appreciate y’all.

Photo Credit : Deb L. Waters
God Bless. Thank you for following along with my blog. I appreciate y’all.

John’s Cellpic Sunday
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.


Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
God Bless. Thank you for visiting. I appreciate y’all.





Ragtag Daily Prompt Saturday: Vanish
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for sharing in Coleman’s antics and expressions. I appreciate y’all.





Terri’s Sunday Stills Challenge. This is also my entry for Kate’s Whatsoever Is Lovely Challenge.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.

The Eastern Gray Squirrel is particular known in other parts of the world as simply the grey squirrel. It is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus. It is native to eastern North America (my part of the country), where it is most prodigious and ecologically essential natural forest regenerator. These squirrels I’ve seen before in several campgrounds, Greenways, and along several hiking trails in the area. I usually see them more in the country and not so much in the city near apartments or townhomes.
My grandson woke me up early to watch the squirrel on our back fence eating the dog’s food. He was fascinated watching the squirrel. Most squirrels I’ve seen do not have as long a tail as this Eastern Gray Squirrel. This shot he seemed to be saying; “Why you looking at me? Can’t you see I’m enjoying my breakfast at your expense? Thank you, I appreciate the food.”
Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters
God Bless. Thank you for visiting. I appreciate y’all.
Mother’s Day is meant to honor and celebrate the unconditional love of a mother. It is celebrated in many countries around the world on the second Sunday of May every year. This year it falls on May 14th.
Did you know that the ancient Greeks and Romans used to celebrate festivals honouring mother goddesses such as Rhea and Cybele. ( I did not know this about them). The ancient festivals were held in the springtime and were dedicated to motherhood and fertility.
Our current tradition of celebrating Mother’s Day in the United States was designated in a proclamation by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914. It declared the second Sunday of every May as Mother’s Day. Many people choose to give cards, flowers, or other heartfelt gestures to show their appreciation, affection, and gratitude for their mothers or the significant person who demonstrated mother like qualities toward them.
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
Honoré de Balzac
Most cards contain famous quotes or sayings regarding mother’s or motherhood, however they may not confer how you really feel. The words that touch a mother’s heart the most are the words that come straight from the heart.
My mother and I were never friends and never close after I became an adults on was living in my own. I never felt like she liked me or approved of anything I ever did in my life. Even though I felt that way I still knew, in her own way, she loved me. I cannot express any heartfelt appreciation, gratitude, or love to her on this earth, but I can still remember her & try to honour her.


God Bless. Thank you for visiting. I appreciate y’all.
Selection to Pull Up a Seat:



And Just Because:

XingfuMama’s Pull Up a Seat Photo Challenge
Photo Credit: Deb L Waters
Cameras:
First Photo – Canon EOS Rebel T3I with CanonEF-S 18-55mm with Altura Fisheye Wide-angle Lens for Canon
Second – Last Photo — iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for sharing a seat & your time. I appreciate y’all.








XingfuMama’s Pull Up a Seat Photo Challenge
Photo Credit : Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you sharing your time. I appreciate y’all.