Category: #FOTD

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: May – Denim Colors

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2024 CMMC: May Denim Color

This week I chose a variety of photos from previous years I hope will meet Cee’s CMMC theme sufficiently.

Polygonum punctatum Elliott
Dotted Smartweed
***with a “Denim Blue” Sky (2023)***

***Coleman Climbing***
***a Deer Stand (2022)***

***Doyce Eileen (Watson) Waters***
***one of the last pictures of my mom (2018)***

Becky’s Squares-Renew

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2024 FOTD: Castle Garden Flowers

Hearst Castle Garden

Becky’s Squares

Throwback Thursday

Camera: Minolta XG-7 with Kodak Ektachrome 35 mm slide film.

Location: Hearst Castle; San Simeon, San Luis Obispo County, California, USA

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Wordless Wednesday: 05.08

Be Wild

Be Square

Don’t Worry

Be Happy

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

Becky’s #SquareRenew

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Gardner Park Neighborhood; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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Words for Thought #17

Autumn-olive (Elaeagnus umbellata)
AKA Silverberry, Russian-olive

Cee’s FOTD

Becky’s #SquaresRenew

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

Location: Gaston County Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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A Mixture of Oranges to Delight Your Senses

***Pumpkin and Mushroom***
***Counter Display***
***Anne Springs Close Greenway***
***Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA***

***Calendula officinalis,***
***common marigold***

Orange Life Jackets
on my Spouse & Daughter
in 1995 at
Lake Fort Smith;
Lake Fort Smith State Park;
Mountainburg, Crawford County, Arkansas, USA

Weekly Prompts Color Challenge-Orange

Becky’s Squares

Cee’s FOTD

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Floral Renewal Macro Monday

Hybrid Sweetbriar Rose
(Rosa ‘Lady Penzance’)

Becky’s Squares-Renewal

Macro Monday

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Ultra-wide Camera

Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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2024 Weekend FOTD: 04/.05

Burgeoning Wildflowers

Oxalis articulata
AKA Pink-sorrel

Cee’s Weekend FOTD

Becky’s Squares-Burgeoning

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Gardner Park Neighborhood; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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2024 Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #17

Lily of the Valley
Coloured by Me
Via Zen Color App

Lily of the Valley is the birth flower for May. Traditionally, lily of the valley is known to symbolise humility, sweetness, the return of happiness and motherhood. Lily of the Valley may be May’s birth flower, but I much prefer roses 🌹 and carnations.

Floral Friday

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2024 Thursday Trios: 05.02 —

Petunias

***Petunia hybrida***
***‘Queen of Hearts’***

Becky’s #SquaresRenew Challenge-May

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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2024 FOTD: 05.02

Dianthus chinensis x barbatus

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens and Altura UV filter attachment.

Location: The Heritage Garden; The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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2024 Wordless Wednesday: 05.01

Spathiphyllum floribundum

***AKA Snowflower***
***and Peace Lily***

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

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Words for Thought #16

Cee’s FOTD

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens with Altura UV filter attachment.

Location: The Heritage Garden; The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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2024 Macro Monday: 04.29

Pluteus cervinus

Macro Monday

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Ultra-Wide Camera

Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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FOTD/Whatsoever Is Lovely: 24.04.27

Rubus Trivialis

Southern Dewberry

***Western Honey Bee***
**Feasting on Delicious Nectar**

Whatsoever is Lovely

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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2024 Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #16

***Coloured by Me***
***Via Zen Color App***

Floral Friday

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2024 FOTD: 04.23

Dietes grandiflora

Photo Credit:©️2024 Sandy Burnett

Location: Fernandina Beach, FL

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2024 Macro Monday: 04.22

Rhododendron japonicum

Macro Monday

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens with Altura UV filter attachment.

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

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2024 Weekend FOTD: 04.21

Sisymbrium loeselii
Brassicaceae
Leaf Mustard

Cee’s Weekend Flower of the Day

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

Location: The Heritage Garden; The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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Rooftop Garden of Stonecrop

Pyxidanthera barbulata
Common Pyxie-moss

Phedimus kamtschaticus,
the orange stonecrop

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S75-300mm lens with Altura CPL filter attachment.

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

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2024 Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #15

Floral Friday

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Small White Southern Dewberry

Rubus trivialis

These are small white Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

They are also found all over South Carolina and the Southeastern part of the United States.

The Southern Dewberry, as they are commonly known, is a species of flowering plant in the rose family (Rosaceae).

Whatsoever Is Lovely Challenge-2024 Week 15

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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2024 Sunday Stills: #Color challenge: Diamond, Quartz, Crystal, and/or Purple

Purple I have, not so much in the way of Diamonds, Crystals, or Quartz. Therefore, I showing y’all some of my favourite purples.

***Viola × williamsii,***
***Purple Pansies***

***Glandularia***,
**AKA Mock Vervain**
or **Mock Verbena**

***Buddleja davidii***
***Butterfly Bush***

***Digitalis purpurea,***
***AKA the foxglove***
***or common foxglove***

Now for Quartz, (not what you had in mind, I bet.)

***Coleman***
***holding the***
***Quartz Trail Sign***

Terri’s Sunday Stills

Cameras: 1 & 3) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 2 & 4) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm and Canon EF 75-300mm lenses; 5) iPhone 13 Pro.

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Words for Thought #14

Location: Carlsbad Flower Fields; Carlsbad, California

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2024 Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #14

Floral Friday

“March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers”

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2024 Sunday Stills: April # Flowers

Sunday Stills-April # Flowers

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2024 FOTD: 04.10 —-

Rhipsalidopsis gaertneri

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Words for Thought #13

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2024 FOTD: 04.09

Phlox subulata

***Aka the creeping phlox,***
***moss phlox,***
***moss pink or***
***mountain phlox***

Cee’s Flower of the Day:04.09

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300mm lens and Altura CPL filter attachment.

Location: Schroering Forest Playground; Lake Haigler Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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Weekend FOTD: 2024 April 6 — Wisteria brachybotrys

Cee’s Weekend FOTD

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2024 Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #13

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-April Close Up or Macro

Floral Friday

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2024 CMMC: April – Close up or Macro

***Calendula officinalis L.***
***Marigold***

***Bunias orientalis***,
**Warty-cabbage**

***Helleborus viridis,***
***AKA Green Hellebore***

***Euonymus japonicus***
***‘Aureo-Marginata’***

Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)

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

Location: 1-4) The Heritage Garden; The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA; 5)Dairy Barn Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

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2024 OWS: Yellow in the Garden

***Sinapis arvensis***
***Wild Mustard***

Debbie’s One Word Sunday: Yellow

Cee’s FOTD

Macro Monday

The Cosmic Photo Challenge-The arrival of Spring

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2024 FOTD: 03.31 — Lenten Rose

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge-03.31

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

Location: The Heritage Garden; The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia. North Carolina, USA

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2024 FOTD: 03.30 —

Wisteria floribunda

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2024 Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #12

Flowers, Bunnies, Eggs

Wishing You Hope, Happiness,

New Life on this Good Friday

“It’s not about the bunny;
it’s about the lamb.”
– Unknown

“Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.”
– JANINE DI GIOVANNI
Town&Country.com

“The Easter egg symbolizes
our ability to break
out of the hardened,
protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with…”
~ Siobhan Shaw
country living.com

“Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness.”
~ Floyd W. Tomkins
countryliving.com

Floral Friday

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Pine Cones — Signs of Springtime and Easter’s Coming

***A Trio of Pine Cones***
***Symbols of Enlightenment,***
***Rebirth, Resurrection,***
***Fertility, and Eternal Life.***

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

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2024 FOTD: March 27

Eruca sativa

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55lens and Altura UV filter.

Location: Heritage Garden; The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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Hovering Over a Delectable Treat

John’s Cell Pic Sunday

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

God Bless. The Flowers welcome Spring’s arrival and the Bees 🐝 are hovering around. Enjoy the flowers, but be careful not to get stung. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

Yellow Tulips Bringing Hope and Cheerfulness

Yellow Purissima Tulips
Fosteriana Tulips

Debbie’s Six Word Saturday

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2024 FOTD: 03.23 —

The Yoshino Cherry

(Prunus x yedoensis)

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #11

***Coloured by My***
***Via Zen Color App***

The flowers are springing up, the season of singing birds has come, and the cooing of turtledoves fills the air.Song of Solomon 2:12 NLT

Floral Friday

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A Trio of Daffodils to Bring You a Ray of Sunshine

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Pick a Topic from My Photo

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

Location: The Heritage Garden; The Farm; The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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2024 CMMC: Pick a Topic from my Photo

My entries for this Cee’s CMMC this week are a variety of new and archive photos I hope you enjoy. There were taken at The Schiele Museum of Natural History and the Warlick Family YMCA in Gastonia, North Carolina as well as at Andrew Jackson State Park (three of our favorite places to go hiking and relax out in nature.

*Brown, Green, Layers*, Landscape
Green Lettuce on a Bed of Brown Bark
**Heritage Garden**; ***The Farm;***
***The Schiele Museum of Natural History;***
***Gastonia, North Carolina, USA***

**Brown, Green, Teal, Water, Landscape, Layers**
**Spillway; The Nature Trail;**
**The Schiele Museum of Natural History;**
**Gastonia, North Carolina, USA**

***Blue, Water, Green, Lake, Layers, Brown***
***Robinwood Lake; Warlick Family YMCA;***
***Gastonia, North Carolina, USA***

***Blue, Brown, Green, Landscape, Water, Lake, Layers***
***The Lake at Andrew Jackson State Park;***
***Lancaster, South Carolina, USA***

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #213

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03.20.24 Lovely Spring Pansies to Brighten Your Day

Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2024 Week 11

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge-03.20

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

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

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2024 OWS: Orchid

One Word Sunday – Orchid

Cee’s FOTD

Macro Monday

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2024 FOTD: 03.17

Brassica juncea

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

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

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2024 FOTD: 03.15

Lenten rose

***Helleborus orientalis,***
***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)

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.

Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #10