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: December — Pick a Topic from my Photo

Cee’s Photo

Greetings, Christmas Day maybe over , but not necessarily the celebrations and we still have the new year a coming. Since we’ve been sick and not out much I’m choosing to make my selections from the last time I was able to get out ( this respiratory infection, RSV, doesn’t seem like it was to disappear.)

I’m taking you on a walk through The Farm ( one of Coleman’s favorite places) at The Schiele Museum of Natural History.

Entering The Farm

Shapes, sign, green, lines

Turning Right past the farm you enter the Nature Trail. This directional sign points the way.

Poles, Signs, Green, Black,
shapes, bushes (and trees in background)

Now let’s enter The Farm and have a look around…

Let’s take a look to see what we can find growing in the garden …

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-December Pick a Topic from my Photo

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250 mm lens. Also used Canon EF-S18-55mm lens on the directional signs (Second Photo.)

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

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

2023 CMMC: December —Alphabet two T’s

NarraganseTT turkey
TriceraTops replica
KiTTy Cat
Tiger 🐅 cat

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-December Alphabet two T’s

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

Cameras: 1 & 3) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 55-250mm lens; 2) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 10-18mm lens.

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

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

2023 CMMC: December—Teal Color

Graffiti-PPAC
Founders Trail
Carolina Thread Trail
Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
Catawba River
Catawba Indian Nation Greenway Trail
Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
Coleman
BMX Playground
Riverwalk
Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Teal Color

Natalie’s Photographing Public Art Challenge

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

Camera: Apple iPhone 13 Pro

Location: Various near the Catawba River; Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA

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

2023 December CMMC: Close Up or Macro

Stormy Sky
Hog at the Farm
Schiele Museum of Natural History
Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
Bird Feeder
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Crassula multicava succulent
Pumpkin
Poinsettia – Princettia Pink

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-December Close Up or Macro

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

2023 CMMC – November Alphabet “R” at the end of a word

Here is my entry for this week’s challenge:

First, Looking up to the sky above …

we spot a Helicopter

Next, a look at (almost Coleman’s) eye level …

a beautiful Flower

And finally, gazing beneath us …

We see beautiful
reflections in the
Water of Lake Haigler

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters

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

Locations: 1) Gastonia, North Carolina; 2-3) 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 very much.

2023 CMMC: Pick Your Topic from My Photo

Cee’s photo:

Welcome to Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge (CMMC), the topic is Pick Your Topic from My Photo below. Possible topics shed (small building), sign, mural, wood, coffee, tree, green, roof, green, black, red, yellow, etc. What else can you come up with?

Let’s begin our journey with a coffee cup of tea to get energized.

My daughter, Trisha
and Granddaughter, Alona

Walking Past the Sheds and observing the surroundings…

Spying cats on Rooftops

Continuing the journey to spot some intriguing murals …

And then venturing through the trees for a lovely enjoyable hike.

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge- Pick Your Topic from my Photo

Photo Credit: Deb L. Waters

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

2023 CMMC: November – Red Devil (dark red) Color

Autumn is the time of year we can see beautiful and colorful leaves abounding in nature from the greens trying to hang around, varying shades of orange and yellow and the awesome shades of Red in the leaves on the many plants and flowers amassed in our surroundings.

Seeing Autumn Leaves and …

Amazing shades of Red in flowers

And not to deter from the Red in the plants and flowers; I’m throwing in a Throwback photo from the early 60’s.

Throwback Thursday Photo

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Red Devil (dark red) Color

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Throwback Thursday

God Bless. Thank you for visiting 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.

2023 CMMC: October – Alphabet with “P” anywhere in the word

P Words Located along Nature Trails:

Located in Lindsay Pettus Greenway in Lancaster, South Carolina …

Located along the Piedmont Medical Center Trail which runs semi-parallel to the Catawba River in Rock Hill, South Carolina …

Located near the Persimmon Trail Entrance from Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens in Belmont, North Carolina …

Persimmon Trail …
Please Be Advised…

Located within Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens in Belmont, North Carolina …

Digitalis purpurea
‘Dalmatian Purple’

And can’t ignore Coleman …

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge (CMMC): October Alphabet with “P” anywhere in the word

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

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

2023 NPC #31: Autumn Colours

A View Around The Pond

Includes Water, Blue, Green, Yellow, Trail, Landscape, Space.

Photos 1-9 are all of the Pond at The Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia, North Carolina. Photo 10 is of the North Carolina Mountains displaying both Autumn 🍂 Colours & Winter ❄️ 🥶 ❄️Snow.

Denzil’s Nature Photography Challenge-Autumn Colours

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #196

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge -Pick a Topic From My Photo

Dawn’s Festival of Leaves challenge

Debbie’s One Word Sunday Challenge

Collage of My Family in
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in May of 2010.

To view more of my insights and or photography go to: Gfpacificbee’s Insights & Photography

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

2023 October CMMC: Close Up or Macro.

Happy October! This month has begun with several trips to the Schiele Museum and lots of hiking. First of was The Early Explorers program at the museum. Early Explorers is for preschoolers (2-5 year olds). They do interactive play, songs, story time , and a craft each week based on a weekly theme. This week’s theme was Pumpkin.

Coleman’s Pumpkin 🎃 Craft art

Later in the day we rode the city transit over to the Gaston County Warlick Family YMCA.

Tree 🌲 Fungi

We meandered down & around along the Green Trail to enjoy a hike and look at we saw. We noticed some interesting fungi and some very active bees 🐝.

Bee 🐝 Pollination

The bees were having a pollinating party 🎉 it seemed. They were flitting to and fro devouring the sweet nectar of these bright yellow flowers.

Windshield Leaf 🍂

Lastly, we spotted a autumn 🍂 leaf 🍂 clinging to the windshield of his mom’s car later in the afternoon.

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.

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