2024 OWS: Yellow in the Garden

Dandelion
Phedimus kamtschaticus,
the orange stonecrop,
Brassica juncea
Brown Mustard
Sinapis arvensis
Wild Mustard

Debbie’s One Word Sunday: Yellow

Cee’s FOTD

Macro Monday

The Cosmic Photo Challenge-The arrival of Spring

Photo Credit:©️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: 03.31 — Lenten Rose

Helleborus orientalis
lenten rose

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge-03.31

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

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

God Bless. Happy Easter Everyone! Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 FOTD: 03.30 —

Wisteria floribunda

Wisteria floribunda,
Aka Japanese wisteria
(, fuji)

Cee’s Flower of the Day

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

2024 Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #12

Flowers, Bunnies, Eggs

Wishing You Hope, Happiness,

New Life on this Good Friday

Coloured by Me
Via Zen Color App

“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

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

Floral Friday

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

Pine Cones — Signs of Springtime and Easter’s Coming

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

Thursday Trios

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Gastonia, North Carolina

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

2024 FOTD: March 27

Eruca sativa

Arugula flowers
Aka Salad Rocket

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

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

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

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. Have a fabulous rest of your week. I appreciate y’all very much.

Hovering Over a Delectable Treat

John’s Cell Pic Sunday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

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

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)

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

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

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

Floral Friday

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

A Trio of Daffodils to Bring You a Ray of Sunshine

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Thursday Trios

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

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

God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Enjoy the beauty all around you. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

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

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

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #213

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

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

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

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

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

God Bless. Happy Spring Everyone! Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 OWS: Orchid

Cymbidium Orchid
Boat Orchid

One Word Sunday – Orchid

Cee’s FOTD

Macro Monday

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

2024 FOTD: 03.17

Brassica juncea

Brown Mustard

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Photo Credit: (c) 2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

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

God Bless. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 FOTD: 03.15

Lenten rose

Helleborus orientalis
Hellebore 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)

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.

Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #10

Coloured by Deb 
Via Zen Color App

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

Floral Friday

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

2024 CMMC: March — Amaranth Magenta Color

Thirst for Color in Nature

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Amaranth Magenta Color

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

2024 Wordless Wednesday: 03.12

Pyrus calleryana

AKA Callery Pear
Bradford Pear

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

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 and Altura CPL filter.

Location: Avon Creek Trail; Avon and Catawba Creeks Greenway; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Enjoy your week. Smell the flowers. Spring is almost here. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Sunday Stills: Monthly Colour Challenge — Green

Greens in the Garden

Prunus caroliniana
Carolina Cherry-laurel
Cabbage
Rosemary
Carnivorous plant
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)

Macro Monday

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.

Settings: f5.6 • 1/320 • 250mmISO125

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

Coleman Loves
Blowing Dandelions

John’s Cell Pic Sunday

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

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

Silent Sunday

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.

Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #9

Coloured by Deb
Via Zen Color App

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

Floral Friday

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

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 …

Stegosaurus Plates

Then we moved on the Nature Trail and a walk around the Pond …

Turtles & their Reflections

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.

Ranunculus acris
Common Buttercup

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up or Macro

Cee’s FOTD

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.

Two Fishing Bobbers
Pair of Goats 🐐
A Pair of Daffodils

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

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

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.

Words for Thought #8

Mustard Plants
In the Garden
In the Farm
The Schiele Museum of Natural History

Think About It Tuesday

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

2024 Cell Pic Sunday: 03.03

— Daffodils

Narcissus pseudo narcissus
AKA the wild daffodil
or Lent lily

John’s Cell Pic Sunday

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 RDP: Friday—March

Stand Up, Get Moving— We’re Marching into Spring

Split Cupped Collar Daffodils (Narcissus’Valdrome’)

Ragtag Daily Prompt: Friday – March

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Silent Sunday 

Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge 2024 Week 8

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

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

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 #8

Coloured by Me
Via Zen Color App

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

Floral Friday

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

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

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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 CMMC: February—Alphabet W or X anywhere in the word

Flowing From Flowering Weeds to Wonderful Serenity of Calming Blue Waters; here is my entry for

Cee’s CMMC this week.


Common WEED
Cardamine hirsuta,
AKA hairy bittercress
henbit deadnettle
Lamium amplexicaule

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-February Alphabet W or X anywhere in the word

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

2024 Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #7

Pink Roses 🌹
to Brighten Your Day
[Coloured by me Via
Zen Color iPhone App]

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

Floral Friday

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

Silent Sunday

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

Coloured by me
Via Zen Color
iPhone App

Cee’s Flower of the Day 

Floral Friday

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

2024 Macro Monday — One-to-Three

Roses

Original
Google stylized
Processed with Pixlr
Pixlr Splash
Tolerance 2
Tint -153

Macro Monday

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 CMMC: Close Up or Macro

Let’s talk turkey, nah let me show you more green. This time a close-up view of green plants in the Farm Garden at The Schiele Museum.

Here’s a look at my contributions for Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge of Close Up or Macro.

Turkey feathers
Verbascum thapsus
Common Mullein
Sedum Coccinea
AKA Stonecrop

or Dragon’s Blood

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge-Close Up or Macro

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 18-55mm and Canon EF-S55-250mm lenses.

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 very much.

Words for Thought #4

We all need each other to better understand, communicate, and hone our skills as well as become better individuals.

Think About It Tuesday

Cee’s FOTD

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

2024 Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #4

Coloured by Deb
Via Zen Color App

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Floral Friday

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.

2024 Floral Friday: Mother of Millions

Mother of Millions
(Kalanchoe laetivirens)

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Floral Friday

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

Large-Cupped Daffodil
(Narcissus ‘Delibes’)

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. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Floral Friday: Colouring Flowers #3

Kingfisher Bird
on a Pink Flower
[Coloured by me
via Zen Color
iPhone app]

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Floral Friday

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all.