2025 Thursday Trios: 17 April

Autumn Fire Encore

Azalea Shrubs

A Trio of Red Azalea Shrubs

Thursday Trios

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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.

Sunday Stills-Dramatic Shades of #Purple

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

Pink Azaleas
Azalea
Rhododendron genus

Macro Monday (MM)

Macro Monday

Cee’s/Chris’ FOTD

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

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.

WHICH WAY WITH FLOWERS

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

Numbers Game

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.

Judy’s Numbers Game #67-188

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

Aka Barberton daisy,
Transvaal daisy

Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Cornus florida
Flowering dogwood in Spring
Flowering Dogwood Blossoms

Click on each image for enhanced viewing.

Sunday Trees

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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:

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

FOTD

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

In Memory of Cee

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!

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.”

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.

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.

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)

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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:

Bonus: My Wild One

Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #342-It’s a Wild Life!

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

Aka Great Mullein, or Common Mullein

Cee’s FOTD

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
Zen Color App

“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.

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

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

Canon EOS Rebel T3i

Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden

Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Cee’s FOTD

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

Cercis canadensis v. texensis
Texas Redbud

Cee’s FOTD

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

Pansies,
Creeping Jenny
(Lysimachia nummularia),
and
Euphorbia martinii
‘Ascot Rainbow’

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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.
The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

Zen Color App

“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

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

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: 19 March

Pyrus calleryana

Pyrus calleryana,
aka the Callery pear
or Bradford pear,

Cee’s FOTD Challenge

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.

2025 Cee’s Flower of the Day: 18 March

Helleborus

Aka Christmas Roses,
Hellebores Lenten Roses,
Winter Roses

Cee’s FOTD

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

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location Greenway Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

God Bless. Take time to smell and admire the Flowers. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Cee’s Weekend FOTD: March 15/16

Taraxacum officinale

Aka Common Dandelion,
Lion’s Tooth

Cee’s 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. 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.

Sunday Trees — 2025.16.03

Pyrus calleryana

Coleman in front of
Callery ‘Bradford’ Pear Tree

Aka Bradford Pear
Callery Pear

Sunday Trees

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. Observe the Beauty in Nature. 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: 15 March

Spring Flowers

Spring floral garden in Texas

Cee’s FOTD

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.

2025 Floral Friday: 03.14 —Colouring Flowers #58

“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
Zen Color App

“Let us rise above the muck and live gracefully in the light of this world instead of mired in its darkness.”

Reddit

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

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 FOTD: 12 March

Orchids

Laelia purpurea carnea

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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.

2025 Numbers Game #63-184

Judy Dykstra-Brown with the blog lifelessons hosts a challenge called The Numbers Game.  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.

This week’s number is 184. Here are my entries for this week’s Numbers Game #63 challenge.

This week’s images are a mixture of places I’ve visited throughout the years. From California to Mexico; from Georgia to the Carolinas and northward up to Ohio. And of course, I had to include a picture of Coleman. I hope you enjoy and decide to play along as well.

Judy’s Numbers Game #63-184

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Throwback Thursday

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

2025 Sunday Stills: 09 March — My Favorite Flowers

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:

“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

Terri’s Sunday Stills-Favourite Flowers

Cee’s FOTD

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

Flower of the Day: 2025 March 9

Cee’s FOTD

Narcissus hispanicus

Wild Spanish Daffodil

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Carolina Thread Trail; Riverside Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

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

Cee’s Weekend FOTD: March 8/9

Cee’s FOTD

Oenothera fruticosa

Aka Narrow-leaf Evening Primrose

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

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.

2025 Floral Friday: 03.07 —Colouring Flowers #57

“The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly.”


Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

Zen Color App

“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.”

Ernest Hemingway

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

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.

Yellow, Yellow, I Spy Yellow

The Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge colour for this week is Yellow. I have decided to combine this week’s challenge with Judy’s Numbers Game Challenge with various Yellow images to brighten your world.

“Be the yellow fire of inspiration in your corner of the world.”

Yellow can be seen all around us; on vehicles like school buses, construction vehicles, and cars.

“Yellow: the color of warmth, joy, and endless possibilities.”

SIMPLYBEYONDHERBS.COM

“In the garden of friendship, yellow blooms of laughter and joy never fade.”

– Unknown

Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Yellowish

Judy’s Numbers Game #62-183

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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.

2025 Cee’s FOTD: March 3rd

Calico Aster 

Calico Aster 
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum
‘Horizontalis’

Photo Credit: ©️2021 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

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.

2025 Silent Sunday: March 2

Magnolia ‘Jane’

Aka Jane Magnolia
Magnolia

Silent Sunday

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2025 Week 09

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

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: N. Main Street; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Have a lovely fun-filled day. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Floral Friday: 02.28 —Colouring Flowers #56 (8th for 2025)

“There’s so much beauty in the small things, like a poppy field, or a single sunset over the sea. So make each day an adventure.”

SimplyBeyondHerbs

Poppy Field
Zen Color App

“Amidst the poppies, I learned to see people like flowers – each unique, fragile, and deserving of care.”

SimplyBeyondHerbs

“May your life be a canvas painted with the hues of a poppy’s dreams.”

SimplyBeyondHerbs

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

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 FOTD: February 27

Juncus effusus

Juncus effusus
Aka Common Rush
Green Bull Rush
Soft Rush

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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: 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.

Cee’s FOTD: February 25

Cosmos bipinnatus

Aka Garden Cosmos,
Mexican Aster

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

Camera: Apple iPhone 13 Pro

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.

2025 OWS: Floral Displays ready for Spring

After days of freezing cold temperatures and wintery weather, it was a delightful afternoon with a high of 56° and a feels like in the low 60°’s.

After wandering around the trail at Goat Island, it was wonderful to see the floral display at the Center in downtown Cramerton.

Ceramic Flower pots filled with new floral life …

… Could Spring be on the way? Or is the Weather fooling us? Only time will tell. I’ll enjoy the beautiful floral displays and the warmth of the Sun while I can.

Debbie’s One Word Sunday-Floral

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location; The Center; Downtown Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

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

2025 Silent Sunday: February 23

Snow Capped

Plant Life

Silent Sunday

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens

Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Take Care. Stay warm. Spread the Love of Friendship. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2025 Cee’s FOTD: February 23

Semperflorens Begonias

Pink Wax Leaf Begonias

Also known as Bedding Begonia, Wax Begonia, and Wax Leaf Begonia

Pink Wax Begonias

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

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

2025 Floral Friday: 02.21 —Colouring Flowers #55 (7th for 2025)

“The lovely flowers embarrass me, they make me regret I am not a bee”

– Emily Dickinson.

“Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.”

— John Muir

“The bee and the flower, a duet of survival, a testament to nature’s harmony.”

— Unknown

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

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 CFFC: February 18 — Red and ??

Red Flowers and Whatnot

Here are my entries for Dan’s CFFC and Judy’s Numbers Game. I’m also linking up with Cee’s Flower of the Day challenge.

I decided to also link to Natalie’s Public Art Challenge and Jude’s Bench Challenge .

Dan’s CFFC-Red

Judy’s Numbers Game #61-182

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Natalie’s Public Art

Jude’s Bench Challenge

Terri’s Sunday Stills: Monthly Color Challenge-Rosy Red

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

2025 Cee’s FOTD: February 18

Cercis canadensis v. texensis

Texas Redbud

Photo Credit:©️2020 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max Telelphoto Camera

Location: S. Seventh Street; Abilene, Texas, USA

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

2025 Cee’s Weekend FOTD: February 15/16

Agraulis vanillae on Zinnia elegans

Gulf fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) on a Red Zinnia Elegans (Zinnia elegans)

Cee’s Weekend FOTD

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

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.

2025 Floral Friday: 02.14 —Colouring Flowers #54 (6th for 2025)

To All My Friends,

that’s Everyone,

Happy Valentine’s Day!

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

~ Thomas Aquinas
Zen Color App

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

— Anaïs Nin

“Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.” — William Shakespeare, “The Passionate Pilgrim”

— William Shakespeare,
“The Passionate Pilgrim”

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

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.

2025 Cee’s FOTD: February 12

Rose ‘Livin La Vida’ PP

(Rosa hybrid)

Garden Rose
Garden Rose

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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. 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.

Floral Macro Monday: 02.11

Antirrhinum majus

Pink Snapdragon

Macro Monday

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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. Breathe. Stop and Smell 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 LAPC #335: Color vs Black & White Comparison

Off and on I will choose to edit a photo into one on the black and white/monochrome features which I can easily access. I have selected four different images for comparisons for this challenge.

First selection is of a Horse at Anne Springs Close Greenway Stables:

Next up is of a Goat at The Crandall Bowles Children’s Farm at Anne Springs Close Greenway.

Thirdly, is a comparison of the coast of Costa Maya, Mexico which was taken from a cruise ship in 2020.

And lastly, one of my favourite photos of a rose.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #335: Exploring Color vs Black & White

Cee’s 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 Weekend FOTD: February 8/9

Early New Life Planted

Getting Spring Ready

Cee’s Weekend FOTD

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max

Location: Centennial Center; Downtown Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Spring is Coming. Maybe not soon enough for some. Let the Sonshine/Sunshine shine through everyday. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. 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.