Spring Flowers are springing up up and down the river and riverbanks. Coleman and I took a walk on Friday to Riverside Park and Greenway, I was amazed at all the beautiful flowers sprouting into bloom.
Here are some of the flowers we came across that are starting to blossom. There are signs that indicate other flowers will blossom in the next week or so.
God Bless. Take time to enjoy the Beauty in Nature. Be thankful for your blessings. Have a wonderful week ahead. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Sending you this Special Easter wish filled with my sweet love and peace. Wishing y’all a happy Easter in a very sweet and special way!
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“May your Easter be happy, May your day be bright, May you enjoy the treats, And sweet delights. But remember the meaning, Remember God’s gift, Remember the resurrection, May your soul uplift.”
Host this week for Monochrome Madness is Dawn from The Day After. She has chosen a theme of Everything Spring.
Springtime in the Carolinas entails anything and everything from Spring sports like T-Ball for Coleman, to Kayaking through the Catawba River, to simply rolling in the grass at an outdoor concert, to the beauty of Spring flowers. And who can’t forget about the Spring festivities surrounding the Easter Egg Scramble. Let us not forget what this Holiday Season is all about. It is not about the Easter eggs hunts, even though the children enjoy them, it’s about the Crucifixion of Jesus and his Resurrection. We celebrate that “He is Risen!”.
Coleman running to home plateOsteospermum African Daisy ‘Blue-Eyed Beauty’ YellowA variety of Spring Flowers Coleman finding Easter EggsColeman with a “brown” Easter BunnyPetunias Flowering Dogwood Kayaking in the South Fork Catawba River Coleman ready to catch a grounderGarden Tulips Gerbera Daisy Coleman rolling in the grass Centennial Center Park Coleman swinging from a rope Goat Island Park & Greenway Seasonal Annuals in a VaseColeman hiking Rocky Branch Trail Seder Supper
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
Cameras: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max and Canon EOS Rebel T3i
Location: Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. May God bless you at Easter and keep you all year through. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
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:
Goat Island Park & GreenwayRed RoseLake Wylie Soleirolia soleiroliiLake Wylie Lantana Luscious Berry BlendAndrew Jackson State Park Pelargonium hortorum Geranium – CalliopeEd Yount Trail South Fork River Park Caribbean Sea Port of Cozumel Duranta Repens ‘China Girl’Catawba River Trailhead Coleman-Age 3McDowell Nature Preserve #189
A Hodgepodge of Dramatic Shades of Purple; from lovely flowers to amazingly colourful skies, and a beautiful artwork depicting the Cross on a hill called Golgotha, also known as Calvary. Enjoy the scenery and join in the challenge if you’re so inclined. Check out the Sunday Stills Challengehere.
Buddleja davidii Butterfly-BushLiriope muscari Big Blue LilyturfAurora 2024Passiflora incarnata Purple PassionflowerClematis viticella Purple ClematisLancaster SC SunsetDigitalis purpurea aka Lady’s Glove, Common FoxgloveViola (Violets)Artwork of the Cross at the Billy Graham Library
God Bless. May your world be lit with joy and happiness. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
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.
Today I decided to post a flower in memory of Cee’s Weekend FOTD. This past year with her declining health Cee combined Saturday/Sunday Flower of the Day into Weekend FOTD. These are three different processing images of my original Petunia Easy Wave Yellow photo image.
Original:
Original
One:
Polaroid2 with Bokeh1 Overlay using PicCollage Photo Editor
Two:
Magic Effects – Watercolor2 using PicCollage Photo Editor
Three:
Atomic Black & White Filter using Pixlr Photo Editing
Even though I only knew Cee for a relatively short time she had been an inspiration, an encourager, an amazing friend, and all around lovely person to call my friend. I will miss you Cee!
Yellow Rose of Friendship
I’ve been participating in Cee’s blogging challenges since 2022. Not long, but seems like she’s been my friend forever. I know she’s looking down upon us and her legacy and inspiration will live on forever and always.
Gulf fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) on a Red Zinnia Elegans (Zinnia elegans)
“Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.”
I believe Cee knew we would cry, but also that she wouldn’t want us to wallow in weeping/mourning. I believe she would want us to remember her live and keep her legacy going on into eternity.
Viburnum macrocephalum aka “hydrangea viburnum,” Chinese snowball
“People touch our lives if only for a moment, And yet we’re not the same from that moment on, The time is not important, The moment is forever.”
Fern Bork
Cee touched my life as well as many others on and off of WordPress. She will live on through each and every one of us. She has impacted our/my lives with her wisdom, kindness, compassion, and her love.
Helianthus aka Sunflower
“Say not in grief ‘he she is no more’ but live in thankfulness that he she was.”
Hebrew proverb
Cee may have left her earthly home, but she is not really gone. She continues to live on in our hearts and minds. Let’s keep her legacy alive and continue on with love and kindness and respect for one another.
Gaillardia pulchella aka Indian Blanket
I know my emotions and tears have been overflowing this week after hearing the news regarding Cee. I will never regret knowing Cee & sharing in her photo challenges, sharing comments & soaking in her advice and knowledge. Even though we never met in person, I feel like I knew her (at least a part of her) and know that I loved her, her spirit, her courage, and her passion. May she continue to live on through all of us.
God Bless. Thinking & prayers for you, Chris & family. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
P.S. I’ve tried working on this ever since I read Becky’s guest post from Chris. I’ve cried, I’ve tried to write & I’ve cried some more. I wrote a little more & than I had Chris’ post on Cee’s blog & I cried some more and even as I complete this post. I will always remember Cee and how she touched my life.
God Bless. Please keep Chris in your thoughts & Prayers. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
When I first saw the theme was “It’s a Wild Life” I wasn’t sure what I wanted to post for this week. Reading about Cee’s passing sealed the idea for me. Hence, I settled on the Wildlife of Wildflowers displaying a variety of Wildflowers for Cee.
Wildlife of Wildflowers:
Cosmos sulphureus aka sulfur cosmos & yellow cosmosKudzu (Pueraria montana var. lobata)Calopogon barbatus aka Bearded Grass PinkZinnias Ranunculus flabellaris, aka Yellow Water CrowfootViola sororia aka common meadow violetRudbeckia hirta aka Florida Black-eyed SusanHelianthus angustifolius aka narrowleaf sunflower or swamp sunflower
On Tuesday after Coleman arrived home from school, his mom and I took him to the Baseball field to practice his hitting and fielding. Coleman just recently been assigned to a team for T-Ball.
Anyway, after his mom was tired of helping him practice Coleman and I took a short hike down to the river. The C.B. Huss River access is located off the Eleventh (11) Street parking lot. The Kayak rack is located at the river access trailhead.
Coleman checking out the Three Kayaks
Last Thursday, Coleman and I hiked the backside of Goat Island Park and Greenway. We hiked along a back road to reach the far side of the South Fork Catawba River. When we reached our starting point, we came upon these three pipes seemingly discarded near the river.
Three pipes near the South Fork Catawba River
Walking a bit off trail, we saw these three tree stems, limbs, or branches sticking up out of the water. It is always intriguing to see what interesting things we can find along our hikes.
Three Tree Stems
These Wild Daffodils were saw near the river while we were walking up the road to begin our hike for the day.
A Trio of Narcissus pseudonarcissus (wild daffodil)
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. Nature’s Beauty blossoming all around us. Stop and admire the beautiful flowers. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; 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.
God Bless. Springtime will be here soon. Enjoy the pleasant weather and the beautiful flowers all around. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with w. I appreciate y’all very much.
“Have you ever watched a Water Lily grow? They are creatures of the light. Slowly, they unfold their bodies and offer their scented song to the world.”
Abigal Wieser FlowersBloomHope.com
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“Let us rise above the muck and live gracefully in the light of this world instead of mired in its darkness.”
God Bless. Praying for Cee. Take Good Care of each other Chris. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
I have not been able to plant flowers in a really long time, however, that does not stop me from enjoying them or photographing them. Hopefully one day I will live in a place where I’ll be able to plant, water, feed, and nourish my own plants and flowers.
Here is a gallery array of some of my favourite flowers over the years:
Camellia japonica, known as common camellia, or Japanese camelliaThe common crape myrtle (L. indica)Helianthus tuberosus L.
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.
God Bless. Be a Ray of Sunshine. Spread joy to all around you. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.
Location: Catawba River Access; Fort Mill Dam; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Enjoy the beauty all around you. Enjoy Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV Filter attachment.
Location: The Center; Downtown Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Smell the Flowers. Thankful for Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Being Bold is not always easy especially if you’re timid or introverted, however being Bold in your photography is well worth it if you’re able to capture that thrilling moment, that “perfect shot.”
“Your life is your canvas, and you are the masterpiece. There are a million ways to be kind, amazing, fabulous, creative, bold, and interesting.”
Location: Lake Haigler Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South 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.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens
Location: Lake Haigler Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a wonderful weekend. Smell the Flowers. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
God Bless. Happy Valentine’s Day my Friends. 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.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. There’s a Time for Rain, a Time for Sunshine, and a Time to Stop and Smell the Roses. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
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