God Bless. Have a wonderful weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Flower of the Day: 24 May — Irises
Category: #FOTD
2025 Floral Friday: 05.23 —Colouring Flowers #63
“Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.”
– Helen Keller
“Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
– Luther Burbank
God Bless. 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 Flower of the Day: 22 May — Roses
God Bless. Have a wonderful day. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Flower of the Day: 21 May — Asiatic Lily
‘Tiny Rocket’
(Lilium)
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion Camera
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stop and Admire the Flowers. Enjoy Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Flower of the Day: 20 May
Zantedeschia elliottiana
(Popillia japonica)
on a
Yellow Calla Lily
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. Have a wonderful day. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Macro Monday: 19 May
Pink Calla Lily
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion Camera
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; 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 Spring Festival #9 —
Zantedeschia
Calla Lilies
Welcome to my Week #9 Floral contribution to Dawn’s Spring Festival. This week I am displaying Calla Lilies at various stages from my neighbours garden. Coleman stops by their garden every day on the way to and from the school bus to see which flowers have blossomed from one day to the next.
Zantedeschia, (Calla Lilies) is the sole genus in the tribe Zantedeschieae in a 1997 classification of the Araceae. There are currently eight (8) recognized species. Portrayed here are the White, Yellow, and Pink Calla Lilies.
They are herbaceous, bulbous perennials with long, arrow-shaped leaves; some species have leaves with beautiful, window-like translucent spots. The uniquely shaped flower heads, consisting of small flowers in a spadix surrounded by a spathe, make great cut flowers. The spathe is usually white or green, but cultivars exist with yellow, pink, red, and purple hues. They bloom from late spring to early summer.
Calla Lilies can be grown in pots or in the ground. These images are of Calla Lilies grown in a small garden. ‘Calla lily’ is a member of the Arum family and is poisonous if eaten.
Calla Lily
Genus Zantedeschia
Calla lilies generally prefer full sun to partial shade, with full sun being ideal for cooler regions and partial shade being more suitable for warmer areas. They are perennial plants which may grow back every year and continue to produce beautiful blooms under the right conditions.
Calla Lilies may multiply spreading through their underground rhizomes, which develop additional growth buds and can be divided to create new plants. These particular Calla Lilies have been divided and multiplied continuously over time.
Dawn’s Spring Festival 2025 #9
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. Admire the flowers, watch them grow and bloom. Nature is a beautiful artist painting amazingly beautiful flowers and beautifully colourful landscapes. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Cee’s FOTD: 15 May
Yucca gloriosa
The Yucca Gloriosa, also known as Spanish Dagger, is a native evergreen yucca in the southeast USA on the coasts of North Carolina south to Florida. [This plant is in the Piedmont region of North Carolina.] It grows as a shrub or small tree and can grow up to 16 feet tall but is relatively slow-growing.
The leaves are in a basal rosette on younger plants and are sword-shaped with sharp tips. Eventually, it will develop a woody trunk with a more tree-like form. [This particular Yucca plant is a shrub with bayonet like leaves which are crowded in the lower area and spread outwards at the top. The plant is heat, humidity, drought and salt tolerant and can tolerate some cold and snow.
Spanish Dagger,
Spanish Dagger Yucca
The Yucca gloriosa (Spanish Dagger) attracts the Yucca moth (Tegeticula yuccasella) for pollination as well as the larva feeding on the seeds. It is said that the Yucca plant flowers also attracts bees and hummingbirds, however, I have not seen them around it as of yet.
Winter – January 2025
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: 1-2) Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max; 3) Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stop and enjoy the flowers. Have a lovely day. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Macro Monday: 12 (on 13) May
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion Camera
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; 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 Flower of the Day: 12 May
Lonicera japonica
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: River Link Greenway; South Fork River Trail; 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 Flower of the Day: Sunday, 11 May
Digitalis purpurea
Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2025 Week 18
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: Centennial Center; Downtown; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mothers and those as close as a Mother, and those soon to be Mothers. Treasure your family and remember the Mothers who only remain in our hearts. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Cell Pic Sunday: 11 May
Ligustrum sinense
(Ligustrum sinense)
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Along South Fork Catawba River; Riverside Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a wonderful day. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Flower of the Day: 10 May
Beautiful Garden Rose
Rose Bare Root
“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.”
– Leo Buscaglia
God Bless. I cherish y’all’s friendship. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Spring Festival — Week #8
Lilium ‘Tiny Parrot’
Spring’s Lilium ‘Tiny Parrot’ eight day blooming progression in a local neighbourhood garden.
Dwarf Asiatic Lily
Dawn’s Spring Festival 2025 #8
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Seventh Street; Old Town; Riverside Community; 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 Thursday Trios: 08 May
Triple ‘Tiny Double You’s’
Coleman and I have been watching these lilies slowly begin to bloom each day we walk past them on our way to and from his bus stop.
Here are a few more to show the progression from Saturday through today.
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. Have a Joyous Holy Week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Wordless Wednesday/FOTD: 07 May — Echinacea
(Echinacea)
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Centennial Center Park; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a sunshiny day. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Sunday Stills: Monthly Colour Challenge — #Pastels in Florals
Good Day to everyone! It is a cool spring morning and I’m wishing I was still asleep. However, that’s not possible when it’s a school day for Coleman. Instead of falling back asleep after arriving back home from the bus stop, I’m here writing and fixing to upload another post. Who needs sleep anyway? I’ll probably fall back asleep after arriving a little bit of reading 📖.
Now before I begin reading it is time to show y’all some lovely pastel florals from my neighbours gardens.
Stop and Smell the Flowers. Enjoy Nature’s Beauty.
God Bless. You are Beautiful. Share your beautiful smiles and love to everyone in your path. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Festival of Spring Flowers
Water Lilies
Spring is the time when Water Lilies bloom, specifically between Early to mid-May to mid-June in our southern region of the United States. People in tend to get excited the closer it gets to blooming season. The blossoms of the water lilies are strikingly impressive especially in beauty or excellence when in full bloom.
Rocky Shoals Spider Lilies (Hymenocallis coronaria)
Fragrant Water-Lilies (Nymphaea odorata)
“Water Lilies’ is an extension of my life. Without the woter the lilies cannot live, as I am without art.”
Claude Monet
Dawn’s Spring Festival 2025 -Week 7
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Floral Friday: 05.02 —Colouring Flowers #62
“Like everyone else, I was always fond of flowers, attracted by their external beauty and purity. Now my eyes wee opened to their inner beauty, all alike revealing glorious traces of the thoughts of God, and leading on and on into the infinite cosmos.”
John Muir, Essential Muir: A Selection of John Muir’s Best Writings
“If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey”
Matshona Dhliwayo
“You belong among the wildflowers. You belong in a boat out at sea. You belong with your love on your arm. You belong somewhere free.”
-Tom Petty
God Bless. 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 Flower of the Day: 30 April
Lagerstroemia indica ‘Tuscarora’
“When Sun warms Earth,
~ Margaret Simon
Myrtle knows to shed her skin
and show her inside beauty.”
Thinking of summer nearing with the end of the school year approaching, Crape Myrtle’s beginning to bloom once again with the heat encroaching upon the earth surface displaying beauty in all its glory.
“I have a secret
~ Linda Mitchell
It’s a bit of gold
hidden away
only Myrtle knows”
There are many times Coleman will walk on by the flowers in bloom and then there are times like these when he’ll stop, sniff the blooms and admire their beauty and fragrance.
Lagerstroemia indica x fauriei ‘Tuscarora
“Myrtle knows
~ Rose Cappelli
Her dress is so last year.
Underneath—mottled beauty
For fashion’s new season.”
Cee’s FOTD ( Flower of the Day) Challenge
Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S75-300mm lens.
Location: Gastonia County Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stop and smell the flowers. Enjoy Nature’s bountiful beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Flower of the Day: 28 April
Verbesina occidentalis
Small Yellow Crownbeard,
Crown-beard
Cee’s/(Chris) Flower of the Day
Photo Credit:©️2020 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max
Location: Lake Haigler Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Admire the beautiful flowers wherever you go. Take Care and have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Flower of the Day: 26 April
Coreopsis lanceolata
Aka Lanceleaf Tickseed, Sand Coreopsis
Photo Credit:©️2020 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max Telephoto Camera
Location: Andrew Jackson State Park; Lancaster, South 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 Flower of the Day: 22 April
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion Camera
Location: Downtown; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Take time to enjoy the beautiful flowers. Enjoy a walk. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Spring Festival 2025: Along the South Fork Catawba River
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.
Kalahari Swamplily
Crinum crassicaule
Crinum crassicaule
Crinum crassicaule
Crinum crassicaule
(Oxalis europaea)
(Oxalis europaea)
wild garlic
curly dock, yellow dock
(Oxalis europaea)
(Oxalis europaea)
The Green Arrow Arum should begin blooming in the next two-three weeks, about the same timeframe as the Spider Lilies.
Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2025 Week 15
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.
2025 Floral Friday: 04.17(18) —Colouring Flowers #61
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!
“May your Easter be happy, May your day be bright, May you enjoy the treats, And sweet delights.
©️By Bill Hoeneveld
But remember the meaning, Remember God’s gift, Remember the resurrection, May your soul uplift.”
God Bless. 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 Monochrome Madness (MM) #32: Springtime in the Carolinas
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!”.
Goat Island Park & Greenway
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
— Anne Frank
Dawn’s Monochrome Madness-Everything Spring
To check out the guidelines for Monochrome Madness and/or upcoming themes check out Leanne’s Monochrome Madness page here.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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.
2025 Numbers Game #68-189
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:
Geranium – Calliope
South Fork River Park
Port of Cozumel
Cee’s Flower of the Day (Chris)
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #265
Photo Credit:©️2020-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Wishing you a blessed Good Friday. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Thursday Trios: 17 April
Autumn Fire Encore
Azalea Shrubs
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Centennial Center; Downtown Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a Joyous Holy Week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Sunday Stills Monthly Colour Challenge: Lovely Purple Shades
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 Challenge here.
Big Blue Lilyturf
at the Billy Graham Library
Sunday Stills-Dramatic Shades of #Purple
Photo Credit:©️2015-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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.
2025 Macro Monday: 14 (on 15) April
Rhododendron genus
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion Camera
Location: Centennial Center; Downtown Town of Cramerton; 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 Flower of the Day: 12 April — Rhododendron
Cee’s (Chris’) Flower of the Day
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. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Which Way Challenge (CWWC): Any Which Way in Black and White
This week I’m asking y’all to show your Which Ways in Black and White in Memory of Cee Neuner (1960-2025). Cee hosted several photo challenges including Cee’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC) – currently hosted by Deb L. Waters (aka me) from Gfpacificbee’s Insights and Photography, Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC) – currently hosted by Dan Antion from No Facilities, Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge (CMMC), and Cee’s Black and White Challenge (CBWC) and Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge (FOTD) – hosted by Chris Donner (Cee’s Life Partner & wife).
In Memory of Cee’s Black and White Challenge let us all show our Which Ways this week in Black and White for this week’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC). Remember to have Fun and Signs are always welcome.
Here are my entries:
On the Road with Cars and Trucks:
Roads and Pathways with Parked Cars and Trucks:
On Sidewalks and Pathways:
All photos were taken in Downtown Town of Cramerton the end of March.
Next week the theme will be CWWC: Any Which Way with Trains and/or Trolleys (or anything else on a railroad track.) This maybe in combination with Dan’s CFFC.
Check out other Which Ways by clicking on the links below.
Deb’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC)-Any Which Way in Black and White
Dan’s Fun Foto Challenge (CFFC)
Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2025-Week 14
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Downtown Eighth & Center Streets; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Enjoy your weekend and have a bit of fun. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Numbers Game #67 — 188
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.
Cee’s Chris’ Flower of the Day
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Flower of the Day: 07 April
Gerbera jamesonii
Transvaal daisy
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Center Street; Downtown Town of Cramerton, Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Sunday Trees — 2025 06 April
Cornus florida,
the Flowering Dogwood
Click on each image for enhanced viewing.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved
Camera:1 & 3) Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max; 2) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura 4-Star & CPL Filter attachments.
Location: Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Observe the Beauty in Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025: Flower of the Day — 05/06 April
Petunia Easy Wave Yellow
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:
One:
using PicCollage Photo Editor
Two:
using PicCollage Photo Editor
Three:
using Pixlr Photo Editing
One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-April 2025
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. No reproduction or Reuse without the express consent of the copyright owner.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Ultra Wide Camera
Location: Outside of TanninWine House; Center Street; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Remembering Cee — Your Friendship & Inspiration Lives On
Cee Neuner 1960-2025
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!
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.
(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.”
Quintus Ennius
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.
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.
“Say not in grief ‘
Hebrew proverbheshe is no more’ but live in thankfulness thatheshe was.”
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.
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.
2025 Which Way Challenge (CWWC): April Week 1 — Any Which Way (Your Choice)
I am dedicating this Which Way Challenge (CWWC) in Memory of Cee Neuner who loved photographing flowers and hosted several challenges over her blogging career. With that in mind I have chosen to have my Which Way theme of Any Which Way with Flowers (Flower Pathways).
For other Which Ways you might like to check out the following posts:
TGERIATRIX’s Which Way with shades of green
TGERIATRIX’s Which Way with bridges
Deb’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC)-Any Which Way (Your Choice)
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.
2025 LAPC #342 — Wildflowers (Wild Life) +
Wildflowers for Cee
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:
Yellow Water Crowfoot
narrowleaf sunflower or swamp sunflower
Bonus: My Wild One
Wild One,
aka my grandson
Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #342-It’s a Wild Life!
Photo Credit: ©️2022-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Prayers for Chris Donner (Cee’s Chris). Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Cee’s Flower of the Day: 01 April
Verbascum thapsus
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. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Floral Friday: 03.28 —Colouring Flowers #60
“People are not cactuses, they need plenty of water and, when talking about friendship, the water is our time.”
~ Birute Sol
“Life is full of prickly situations. Handle them with care.”
Cactus Quotes
“Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
God Bless. 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 Cee’s Flower of the Day: 27 March
Spring Garden
Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden
Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stop and admire the Beautiful Flowers. Thank you visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Cee’s Flower of the Day: 24 March
Cercis canadensis v. texensis
Texas Redbud
Photo Credit:©️2020 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max
Location: S. 7th St.; Abilene, Texas, USA
God Bless. Take Care. Thinking & Praying for Cee. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Cee’s Weekend FOTD: 22/23 March
Creeping Jenny
(Lysimachia nummularia),
and
Euphorbia martinii
‘Ascot Rainbow’
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Gideon House; Greenway Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thinking of you Cee! Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
2025 Floral Friday: 03.21 —Colouring Flowers #59
Happy Spring!
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
Leo Tolstoy
“It is spring again.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”
Walter Hagen
God Bless. 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.
Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography 