2025 Floral Friday: 02.07 —Colouring Flowers #53 (5th for 2025)

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”

– Victor Hugo
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“The color of springtime is flowers; the color of winter is in our imagination.” 

– Terri Guillemets

“Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. 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.

2025 FOTD: February 6

Pyrus calleryana

Aka Bradford Pear,
Callery ‘Bradford’ Pear,
Callery Pear

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

Camera: 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 visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Public Art in a Perennial Garden/FOTD

@Daniel Stowe

Botanical Gardens

Coleman discovering the Perennial Garden
Fisheye View of the Garden
Washington Matan Development
Opal Stone
Donated By
Villam and Laura Moore

PPAC (Photographing Public Art Challenge)

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens.

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA

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

2025 Cee’s Weekend FOTD: February 1/2

Viola × wittrockiana

Garden Pansy

Cee’s Weekend FOTD

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Have a Sweet Sensational Weekend filled with love and happiness. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 The Numbers Game #58

Judy from Life Lessons Blog hosts The Numbers Game Challenge and invites us all to play along with her. This week’s number is 179.

 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.

Here are my 179 photo selections for this week’s Numbers Game.

Judy’s Numbers Game #58-179

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Becky’s GeometricJanuary

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

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2025 FOTD: January 25

Yellow Zinnias

Zinnias

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

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

2025 Floral Friday: 01.24 —Colouring Flowers #52 (4th for 2025)

“Advice from a sunflower. Be bright, sunny, and positive. Know your roots. Spread seeds of happiness. Rise, shine, and hold your head up high. Keep on growing. Even on the darkest days, stand tall and find the sunlight.”

~ Unknown

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“True friends are like bright sunflowers that never fade away, even over distance and time.”

~ Marie Williams Johnstone

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. 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.

2025 FOTD: January 23

Garden Roses

Rosa Lady of Shalott 

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

2025 FOTD: January 22

Crassula ovate

Jade plant

Cee’s Flower of the Day

God Bless. Bloom where you are. Take Care. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 FOTD: January 21

Crape Myrtle

Crape Myrtle
Lagerstroemia spp.

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Throwback Thursday

Photo Credit:©️1978 Nornal H. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Minolta XG-7 35 mm

Location: San Diego Wild Animal Park ( Now known as San Diego Safari Park); Escondido, San Diego County, California, USA

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

2025 Cee’s FOTD: January 20

Lantana camera

Lantana Verbena Yellow Sage

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300mm lens

Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

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

2025 Weekend FOTD: 01.18/.19

Wintertime Hydrangeas

Cee’s Weekend FOTD

Silent Sunday

Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV Filter attachment.

Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Have a fantastic day. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us.

2025 Floral Friday: 01.17 —Colouring Flowers #51 (3rd for 2025)

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”

~ Luther Burbank

“We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different for ourselves.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. 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.

2025 Numbers Game #56–#177

Judy invites us to join in with her to play  “The Numbers Game #56.”  Today’s number is 177. To play along, she suggests you 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 her 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 Numbers Game Challenge:

Judy’s Numbers Game #56-177

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

Throwback Thursday

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

2025 Cee’s Weekend FOTD: January 11

Camellia japonica 

Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden

Cee’s Weekend FOTD

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA

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

2025 Floral Friday: 01.03— Colouring Flowers #50 (2nd for 2025)

“Each time a flower blooms, the world is reminded that there is beauty in new beginnings.”

Matshona Dhliwayo
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“The seeds of kindness that you plant today will one day bloom in the hearts of all that you touch.

Author Unknown

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. 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.

2025 Numbers Game #55-176

Judy invites us to join in with her to play  “The Numbers Game #55.”  Today’s number is 176. To play along, she suggests you 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 her 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 Numbers Game Challenge:

Judy’s Numbers Game #55-176

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Throwback Thursday

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

2025 Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Blanc

Blanc in Nature

Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge-Blanc

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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.