A Radiately Beautiful Ray of Sunshine

Calendula arvensis (Yellow)
Field Marigold

Silent Sunday

Sunny Sunday

Debbie’s Six Word Saturday

XingfuMama’s Whatever is Lovely Challenge: 2023 – Week 52

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S 55-250 mm lens

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

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2023 FOTD: 12.20 — Poinsettias

Tapestry Poinsettias

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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Christmas Pine Wreath

Welcoming Pine Wreath
Holiday at The Farm
Christmas Pine Wreath

Macro Monday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

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2023 Floral Friday: 12.15 — Orchid

Orchid

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Floral Friday

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300mm lens

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens; Belmont, North Carolina, USA

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2023 FOTD: Orchids

Orchid
Orchids

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA

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Holiday Laser Lights Show

Whatsoever Is Lovely – Week 50

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday-Almost

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

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2023 December CMMC: Close Up or Macro

Stormy Sky
Hog at the Farm
Schiele Museum of Natural History
Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
Bird Feeder
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Crassula multicava succulent
Pumpkin
Poinsettia – Princettia Pink

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

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Wordless Wednesday: Rhododendron ‘conlec’

Azalea Autumn Royalty

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S75-300mm lens

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Gardens; Belmont, North Carolina, USA

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2023 FOTD: 5 December – Viola x wittrockiana

Red Pansy

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens with Altura for Canon Macro Wide-Angle Fisheye lens attachment.

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

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2023 FOTD: Rosa multiflora

Aka: multiflora rose

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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2023 CMMC – November Alphabet “R” at the end of a word

Here is my entry for this week’s challenge:

First, Looking up to the sky above …

we spot a Helicopter

Next, a look at (almost Coleman’s) eye level …

a beautiful Flower

And finally, gazing beneath us …

We see beautiful
reflections in the
Water of Lake Haigler

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️2023 Deb L. Waters

Cameras: 1) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 2-3) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens.

Locations: 1) Gastonia, North Carolina; 2-3) Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA.

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

Edible Plants at The Farm

View from Below
View from Above
Side View

These are Collard Green Plants grown at The Gardens in The Farm at The Schiele Museum of Natural History in Gastonia, North Carolina. Many people in the South eat Collard Greens on a regular basis. Personally, I did not grow up as a child eating Collard Greens even though I was born in the South. My mom never fixed them. Now we ate plenty of Spinach and other types of greens just not Collards. What are your thoughts on eating Collard Greens?

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens and Altura (for Canon) Macro Wide-Angle Fisheye lens attachment.

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

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

2023 Macro Monday: Raindrops in the Garden

Purple Pansy

Macro Monday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

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

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

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2023 FOTD: 11.26 — Pink Roses

Pink Roses 🌹 🥀 from my archives

Cee’s Flower of the Day

Location: Lancaster, South Carolina, USA

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Spattering of Raindrops on a Pansy

Purple Pansy

Debbies Six Word Saturday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Whatsoever Is Lovely-Week 47

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Floral Friday: 11.24 – Fallen Leaves

Maple Leaf
surrounded by
Bald Cypress
(Taxodium Distichum)

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

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

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

God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. Hope y’all had a terrific relaxing Thanksgiving! I appreciate y’all.

FOTD: 11.21 — Butterfly Nourishment

Gulf Fritillary
on a Zinnia

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

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

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

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Sunny Sunday: 11.19 – Symphyotrichum ericoides

Symphyotrichum ericoides
AKA White Heath Aster

Sunny Sunday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

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

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

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2023 FOTD: 11.18 – Asclepias syriaca

Common milkweed
is a deciduous, native,
herbaceous perennial wildflower
in the Apocynaceae (dogbane) family.

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters

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2023 Floral Friday: 11.17

Budding Entertainment

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

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

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2023 FOTD: 11.15 –

Miltoniopsis (Pansy Orchids)

Cee’s Flower of the Day

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

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2023 FOTD: November 14 – Carolina Sweetheart Redbud

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA.

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2023 FOTD: 11.12 – Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora

Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora
is the botanical name
for the white-flowered form
of Digitalis purpurea– the foxglove.

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.

Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA.

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

2023 Floral Friday: November 10_Zinnias

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 55-250mm lens.

Location: By Gibson House; Horse Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina. USA

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Floral Asymmetry: Multicolored Chrysanthemums

Lens-Artists Challenge #274 – Asymmetry

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

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Cell Pic Sunday: 2023 November 5 – Autumn Water Reflections


Anne Springs Close Greenway
Lake Haigler Entrance
Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

John’s Cellpic Sunday

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #196

Terri’s Sunday Stills – Leaves, Autumn or Spring & Monthly Color Challenge – Brown

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

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

2023 FOTD: November 5 – Rudbeckia fulgida

Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivantii
Black-eyed Susan

Silent Sunday

Sunny Sunday – November 5

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens. Settings: f/5 • 1/1000 • 146mm • ISO100

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

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

2023 Floral Friday: November 3

View from Down Under:

Looking Upward
Zinnia

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 55-250mm lens.

Location: By Gibson House; Horse Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina. USA

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

2023 FOTD: A Speck of Autumn

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

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 55-250 mm lens.

Location: Horse Stables Entrance; Dogwood Trail; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA.

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

Wordless Wednesday: Ilex cornuta

Ilex cornuta,
the Chinese Holly,
is one of the old reliables
of southeastern landscapes.
AKA Horned Holly.
Aquifoliaceae plant family.

Hugh’s Wordless Wednesday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 55-250mm lens.

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

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

2023 FOTD: Splashing 💦 Zinnias

Garden of Zinnias

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge (FOTD)

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 55-250mm lens. f/8 • 1/200 • 65mm • ISO100

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

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

Silent Sunday: 2023 October 29

Silent Sunday

Whatsoever Is Lovely-Week 44

Sunny Sunday – October 29

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens. Settings: f/7.1 • 1/320 • 250mm • ISO320

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

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

Floral Friday: Nicotiana tabacum

Tobacco
(Nicotiana tabacum)
Flowering Tobacco Plant
Close-Up of Tobacco Flowers

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

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2023 FOTD: Dianthus

Dianthus
(Telstar Carmine Rose)

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

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

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

Macro Monday: Lonicera japonica

Lonicera japonica
Japanese honeysuckle

Macro Monday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Huntingtowne Neighborhood; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.

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

Silent Sunny Sunday: 2023 October 22

Sunny Sunday

Silent Sunday

John’s Cellpic Sundayk

XingfuMama’s Whatever is Lovely Challenge: 2023 – Week 43

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

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FOTD: Inspire Plus ‘True Blue’

Pansy Viola wittrockiana
Inspire Plus ‘True Blue’

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Ultra Wide Camera

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Floral Friday: Potted Flowers

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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2023 CWWC: Any which way with Autumn or Spring Colors

A Drive Along the Blue Ridge Parkway

Driving the Blue Ridge Parkway
As Seen from an Overlook
Linn Cove Viaduct
Beautiful View from the Parkway
Take a Ride with Us
on the Blue Ridge Parkway
in North Carolina


After a scenic drive along the Blue Ridge Parkway, it is nice to take a stroll or a crawl down the Scarecrow Pathway in Millstone Park located in Fort Mill, South Carolina.

Bonus for October: Any Halloween themed Which Way Photo:

Cee’s Which Way Challenge: Any which way with Autumn or Spring Colors

Denzil’s Nature Photography Challenge-Autumn Colours – Part 2

God Bless. Thank you for trekking along with us on our adventures. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all.

2023 FOTD: October 17

Purple Prairie Verbena

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max f/1.8 • 1/306 • 6.86mm • ISO64

Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History & Planetarium; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.

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Macro Monday: Cabbage

Cabbage
The Garden in The Farm
The Schiele Museum of Natural History
Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

Macro Monday

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

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

FOTD: 2023 October 16 –

CALENDULA ‘AMBER ARCTIC’

Calendula officinalis
AKA: Calendula,
English Marigold,
Pot Marigold

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️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

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2023 FOTD: October 14

Clematis

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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2023 CMMC: Plum (purple) Color

For this Cee’s CMMC this week I thought I would show you some of the Plum (purple) Coleman and I have seen this week on our hiking adventures at The Schiele Museum of Natural History and along trails at the Warlick Family YMCA. They range from purple colored wood on the maze to purple canoes and plenty of purplish flowers. Hope y’all will enjoy the slideshow.

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge -Plum (Purple) Color

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: (c) 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.

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Floral Trio in Monochrome

Chrysanthemums

Thursday Trio

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

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2023 CFFC: October_Spring – Wood

Tangled Vines attached
Broken Limbs
Wooden Maze
Garden Flowers
along the Fence Line

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge:Spring-Wood

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

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2023 Whatsoever is Lovely: Lovely Flowers from My Week

XingfuMama’s Whatever is Lovely Challenge: 2023 – Week 41

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

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

Cameras: 1,3-4) iPhone 14 Pro Max; 2) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens.

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

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

2023 FOTD: Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus

Aka: lemon daylily,
lemon lily, yellow daylily

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: In Front of the Gaston County Public Library; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA.

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2023 Festival of Leaves Challenge: Week Three —Autumn Foliage

Leaves are often seen along hiking trails. Sometimes we notice the beautiful Autumn foliage in their full glory upon their tress and at other times we notice leaves of various shades upon the ground or in the nearby water.

The first two photos were seen in and around the creek at The Schiele Museum of Natural History’s nature trail. This is a place Coleman loves to visit at least twice per week. The only problem (depends on perspective) is keeping him out of the water.

The last two photos were captured as we were hiking along the Green Trail on the grounds of the Gaston County Warlick Family YMCA. These beautiful Autumn 🍂 leaves were located on the banks of the Robinwood Lake. The sunlight seemed to enhance their colourful loveliness.

Festival of Leaves Challenge 2023

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

Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i

Lenses:

  • 1-2) Canon EF-S55-250mm;
  • 3-4) Canon EF 75-300mm

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Reaching for the Sky

Floral Friday

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge 

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

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Field of Wildflowers; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA

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