2024 Monday Portrait/#Seven for September: 09.30

7 Riverbanks 🦒 Giraffes 🦒

This week I am combining Monday Portrait with Becky’s Squares-#Seven for September. I am posting Seven (7) Giraffes from 7 years ago in 2017.

Monday Portrait

Becky’s Squares 

#Seven for September

Throwback Thursday

Photo Credit:©️2017 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. 

Camera: Apple iPhone 7 Plus 

Location: Riverbanks Zoo & Garden; Columbia, South Carolina, USA

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

A Look Back at Penguins from 2017

Posting for Becky’s Squares-Seven for September Challenge and Bird of the Week LXXXII

One (maybe two) Penguins
One Penguin
Two Penguins
Two (maybe Three) Penguins

1(or 2) + 1 + 2 + 2 (or 3) = 7 (or 7)

While visiting the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, South Carolina we were able to observe the King Penguins. King Penguins have a mobile nest – right on top of their feet! Who would have guessed? The female will lay one egg and both parents will take turns incubating the egg by balancing it on top of their feet under a warm fold of skin.

King Penguin nest sites are on sub-antarctic islands surrounding Antarctica. They spend long stretches of time at sea. [Except those found in zoos like the Riverbanks Zoo.) They eat fish, krill, crustaceans, and squid.

Riverbanks Zoo supports penguins of all species by encouraging sustainable seafood consumption through Seafood Watch. Riverbanks’ Satch Krantz Conservation Fund and Field Conservation Associates have also supported sustainable guano harvest in Peru and chick bolstering and rehabilitation in South Africa.

Becky’s Squares 

Throwback Thursday

Bird of the Week LXXXII

Photo Credit:©️2017 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 7 Plus

Location: Riverbanks Zoo & Garden; Columbia, South Carolina, USA

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

2024 Wordless Wednesday/Becky’s Squares

Seven Beehives

Welcome to our Hive
Eden Acre Honey Farm

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

Becky’s Squares 

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

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

2024 Silent Cell Pic Sunday: 09/.15

Seven Arcade Games

Coleman’s First Arcade Experience
Shop Arcade Games

John’s Cell Pic Sunday

Silent Sunday

Becky’s Squares

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max 

Location:Springdale, Lancaster, South Carolina, USA 

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

2024 Monday Portrait: 09.09 — #Seven for September

Throwback to 2017

Sundance, the Sunshine Bear

I visited the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, South Carolina with my daughter, Trisha and granddaughter, Alona back in August of 2017 [Seven (7) years ago]. We were able to enjoy the various zoo animals and the entertaining antics of Sundance, the Sunshine Bear.

Sadly, Sundance passed away on April 30, 2022 due to declining health. He came to the Riverbanks Zoo along with his brother, Butch, at the young age of only nine (9) months old. Sundance had a gentle disposition, kind eyes, and loved to interact with his zookeepers. He was known as the Sunshine Bear, always bringing a bit of sunshine to those who came to see him.

Monday Portrait

Becky’s Squares-#Seven for September

Throwback Thursday

Photo Credit:©️2017 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 7 Plus

Location: Riverbanks Zoo and Garden; Columbia, South Carolina, USA

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

The American’s Creed

Memory from Seven years ago for Becky’s Squares#Seven for September.

Squared Close-Up of American’s Creed

The American’s Creed

I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed, a democracy in a republic, a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.
I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

~ William Tyler Page
Original Image September 5, 2017

The American’s Creed was written in 1917 by William Tyler Page as an entry he submitted into a Patriotic contest. It is the national creed of the United States of America. It was adopted by the United States House of Representatives on April 3, 1918.

Becky’s Squares-#Seven for September

Throwback Thursday

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

Monday Portrait #Square for September

Dachshund

My Aunt’s Dachshund Misty
taken on March 7th

Monday Portrait

Becky’s Squares-#Seven for September

Throwback Thursday

Photo Credit:©️03.07.2020 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max

Location: Abilene, Texas, USA

God Bless. Happy Squaring! Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Splendid Array Of a Sweetly Scented Garden

Becky has resumed her Square Challenge for September with the theme of Seven for September. It has been Seven (7) years since the first Squaring Challenge Adventures began, thus remembering the good times of Squaring for Seven.

I have not been Squaring for Seven years, however, I have enjoyed being apart of Becky’s Square Challenge. I will do my best with this new theme of Seven for September.

As Becky so cordially reminded us that September was originally the Seventh month of the year in the Roman calendar; it is fitting to see what everyone decides to post for Seven for September. September comes from the Latin word septem which means, you guessed it, seven.

Here is my first selection for this month’s Becky’s Square Challenge:

Garden of Flowers
Taken on July 7, 1978 at 12:07pm

Becky’s Square Challenge

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Photo Credit:©️1978 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35mm

Location:Huntersville, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Have a Sunny Square September Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious day. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.