Boat Orchid
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.
2024 OWS: Orchid
Boat Orchid
Category: Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Boat Orchid
2024 FOTD: 03.15
Lenten rose
the Lenten rose,
is a perennial flowering plant
and species of hellebore
in the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge (FOTD)
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV Filter.
Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.
God Bless. Stop and Smell the Flowers. Enjoy the beauty of nature all around you. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2024 CMMC: March — Amaranth Magenta Color
Thirst for Color in Nature
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Amaranth Magenta Color
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2024 Sunday Stills: Monthly Colour Challenge — Green
Greens in the Garden
Carolina Cherry-laurel
Venus Fly Traps
Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge: Saving Daylight with #Green
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i
Locations: 1) Martha Rivers Park; 2-4) The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2024 Macro Monday: 03.11
CALENDULA OFFICINALIS
MARIGOLD ‘ENGLISH’
(CALENDULA OFFICINALIS)
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.
Settings: f5.6 • 1/320 • 250mm • ISO125
Location: The Garden; The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Cell Pic Sunday: 03.10.24
Dandelion
Blowing Dandelions
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Huntingtown Neighbourhood; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2024 Silent Sunday: 03.10
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2024 Week 9
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. Take time for yourself, take a walk, smell the flowers and enjoy your week. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2024 CMMC: March — Close Up or Macro
These close-ups were all captured during mine & Coleman’s latest visit to (I was so worried you lay down. You don’t just – Apple iPhone’s Siri trying to type what was said to my grandson, oops) our local museum’s nature trail.
We started this visit with a walk through the Dinosaurs Exhibitions …
Then we moved on the Nature Trail and a walk around the Pond …
And ended our visit with a stroll through the Garden in The Farm …
Great Mullein
Verbascum thapsus
New life is slowly starting to arrive and in the next few weeks new growth will begin to emerge in abundance.
Common Buttercup
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up or Macro
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1/2) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 3/4) 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 taking a walk with us and sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all very much.
2024 CFFC: Pairs
Good day everyone. Today it is supposed to rain again. It seems like it has been raining every other day lately. However, it is a pleasure to get out and about in the beautiful outdoors whenever the weather is warm and sunny.
Here are my entries for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week showing Pairs.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge-Pairs
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit (c) 2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2024 FOTD: 03.06 —
Prunus cerasoides
The Wild Himalayan Cherry
or Sour Cherry
is a species of
deciduous cherry tree
in the family Rosaceae.
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Top (1/2) iPhone 14 Pro Max; Bottom (3) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.
Location: Nature Trail; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2024 Macro Monday: 03.04
Fioretto Cauliflower
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.
Settings: f/5.6 • 1/200 • 123mm • ISO100
Location: The Garden; The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2024 Last on the Card — February 29
Hope y’all had a pleasant Leap Day. I know Coleman and I did. First day in a while with no rain, so it was a good day to venture outside and visit the Schiele Museum, one of Coleman’s favourite places.
Conveniently, it gave me an opportunity for capturing some interesting moments on this Leap/Last Day. Therefore, here are my last on the card shot for February.
From my iPhone 14 Pro Max:
Formosa Azalea
From my Canon EOS Rebel T3i:
Rhododendron simsii
Last on the Card-February 2024
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2024 Wordless Wednesday: 02.21
FOTD
Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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 sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.
2024 FOTD: 02.19
— Potted Perennials
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge-02.19
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Take time for yourself, take a walk, smell the flowers and enjoy your week. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Silent Sunday: February 18 —- Daffodil Bulbs
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Garden in The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #6
Via Zen Color
iPhone App
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.
2024 Macro Monday — One-to-Three
Roses
Tolerance 2
Tint -153
One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-February 2024
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2024 FOTD: 12 February
Wreaths Across America
Honor
Teach
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge – 02.12.24
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Wreaths Across America Mobile Exhibition; Cabelas; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all.
FOTD: 02.05.24 — Spring Flowers ’23
Belmont, North Carolina, USA
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge-02.05.24
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max — Telephoto camera
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Welcome back Cee! Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all very much.
2024 Floral Friday: Mother of Millions
(Kalanchoe laetivirens)
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.
2024 FOTD: 01.30.24__Narcissus ‘Delibes
(Narcissus ‘Delibes’)
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. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2024 Macro Monday: Irish Eyes Coneflower
on a Echinacea purpurea
‘Green Eyes’ coneflower
Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max Main Camera — 24mm f/1.78 ISO64
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2024 FOTD: Verbesina alternifolia
Yellow Ironweed
(Verbesina alternifolia)
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: (c)2023 Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens
Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.
2024 Floral Friday: Mother of Millions
(Kalanchoe laetivirens)
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.
2024 FOTD: 01.11 — Appalachian Spring Dogwood
Cornus florida ‘Appalachian Spring’
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2024 FOTD: Nectar for Two
(Trigonopeltastes delta)
the spicebush swallowtail
Both the Delta Flower Scarab and the Black Swallowtail butterfly enjoy feasting on the nectar of the Cephalanthus occidentalis, also known as the Buttonbush; Button Bush.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
Location: Haigler Loop; Lake Haigler Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Haigler Loop’s Sunshiny Yellow Canada Goldenrod
Common Name(s): Canada Goldenrod
Canadian Goldenrod
XingfuMama’s Whatever is Lovely Challenge: 2024-Week 1
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.
Location: Haigler Loop; Lake Haigler 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 very much.
2024 FOTD: January 6 — Verbena
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.
Settings: f/6.3 • 1/320 • 250mm • ISO1250
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Floral Friday: 01.05.23 — Wood Spurge
Photo Credit: ©️2023 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 sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Wordless Wednesday: 01.03.24 — Orchids
Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday
Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.
Whatsoever is Lovely: Along the Catawba River
Ranunculaceae
John’s Cellpic Sunday
XingfuMama’s Whatever is Lovely Challenge: 2023 – Week 52
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2022 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 13 Pro
Location: Landsford Canal State Park; Catawba, South Carolina
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2023 CMMC: December — Pick a Topic from my 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 …
Turning Right past the farm you enter the Nature Trail. This directional sign points the way.
shapes, bushes (and trees in background)
Now let’s enter The Farm and have a look around…
Green, Lines, Signs (& Coleman)
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 LAPC: Last Chance — Part I
2023 — A Year in Review — Second Chance/LastChance
Posting a Year in Review is something I have never done or dreamed of doing before. It is, however, a chance to reflect on the past year and reflect on the choices I’ve made. Why was one picture chosen previously, but not this particular one? Isn’t this picture worthy of being shared as well? I have decided to divide this challenge into two parts. Part One will be covering the first six months of 2023 giving a second/last chance to a select chosen photo from each month. In Part Two, I will dedicate to the last six months (including this one) of 2023 breathing life into previously passed over photos.
January 2023:
Veterans Wall
Glencairn Gardens
Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
February 2023:
Climbing the Bridge
South Fork River Park
4185 Mountainview St
Gastonia, North Carolina 28056
March 2023:
Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens
Belmont, North Carolina, USA
April 2023:
The Schiele Museum of Natural History
Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
May 2023:
Gaston County
Warlick Family YMCA
Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
June 2033:
Anne Springs Close Greenway
Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
Lens-Artist Photo Challenge—Last Chance
God Bless. May your New Year be Blessed, Be Prosperous, and Full of Happiness. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all.
2023 RDP: Monday—SUCCULENT
As we have been sick with a respiratory virus (not Covid)since Thanksgiving; we haven’t been out much due to rain and feeling under the weather. Therefore, I am pulling a few succulents I enjoy from my 2023 archives.
Hens & Chicks
Ragtag Daily Prompt- Monday—Succulent
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️ Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 2) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens; 3) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 55-250 mm lens.
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina , USA
God Bless. I trust y’all had a wonderful holiday. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
A Radiately Beautiful Ray of Sunshine
Debbie’s Six Word Saturday
XingfuMama’s Whatever is Lovely Challenge: 2023 – Week 52
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 55-250 mm 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 me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Floral Friday: 12.22.23 — Penny Yellow Pansy
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300mm lens
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2023 FOTD: 12.20 — Poinsettias
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.
Christmas Pine Wreath
Christmas Pine Wreath
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Holiday at The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.
2023 Floral Friday: 12.15 — Orchid
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300mm lens
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2023 FOTD: Orchids
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Cell Pic Sunday: 12.10.2023 — Poinsettias
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters
Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.
Floral Friday: Narcissus tazetta
bunch-flowered daffodil, Chinese sacred lily,
cream narcissus, joss flower,
and polyanthus narcissus
Narcissus tazetta ( bunched-flowered daffodil) is a perennial ornamental plant that grows from a bulb.
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Wordless Wednesday: Rhododendron ‘conlec’
Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S75-300mm lens
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.
2023 FOTD: 5 December – Viola x wittrockiana
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens with Altura for Canon Macro Wide-Angle Fisheye lens attachment.
Location: The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.
2023 FOTD: Rosa multiflora
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.
Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography 