Category: #PlantsandFlowers

Throwback Thursday

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

2025 Cee’s Weekend FOTD: January 11

Camellia japonica

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

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

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

2025 Floral Friday: 01.03— Colouring Flowers #50 (2nd for 2025)

“Each time a flower blooms, the world is reminded that there is beauty in new beginnings.”
Matshona Dhliwayo

“The seeds of kindness that you plant today will one day bloom in the hearts of all that you touch.”
Author Unknown

Floral Friday

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. 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 Numbers Game #55-176

Judy invites us to join in with her to play “The Numbers Game #55.” Today’s number is 176. To play along, she suggests you 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 her 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 Numbers Game Challenge:

Judy’s Numbers Game #55-176

Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge

Throwback Thursday

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

2025 Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Blanc

Blanc in Nature

Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge-Blanc

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

2025 Floral Friday: 01.03— Colouring Flowers #49 (1st for 2025)

“Each time a flower blooms, the world is reminded that there is beauty in new beginnings”.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
via Goodreads

“May this New Year add a burst of colors and fragrance into your life just like a new blooming flower!”
Alex Montt
Flowers BloomHope.com
~ Alex Montt
Flowers BloomHope.com

Floral Friday

God Bless. Happy New Year to one and all. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. 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.

A 2024 in Review in Flowers

Dedicating this post

to our beloved friend, Cee.

Where I live we still have a little over two and a half hours before 2025’s arrival. I do not normally do year end reviews and I’ve long since given up on making any New Year’s Resolutions. This year Sunday Stills is asking us to do an Annual Year in Review. Therefore, I decided to give a few tidbits of my 2024.

951 posts on WordPress
Written a total of 129.2K words in my WP posts
Participated regularly in blogging challenges. (I’ll miss Cee and her Challenges).
Commented on many posts
Had 10,153 views (for some this may not seem like a lot, but to me it is)
Had 4,125 visitors
Had 6,438 likes

Other Activities outside of Blogging:

Read 121 e-books
Read for a minimum of 30 minutes all 365 days
Read all 52 weeks of the year
Visited 5 cities in my area
Visited and Hiked at 14 different parks or greenways
Made many friends here on WordPress
My grandson started Kindergarten ( I’ve walked him to school most days)
My grandson hikes anywhere and everywhere with me
We moved out of an apartment and into a rental house one town over. (Coleman loves it. It is in walking distance to two greenways).

Now for my Floral Year in Review:

January Flowers (sad to say not many):

February Flowers:

*Think I made up for only one in January*

March Flowers:

April Flowers:

May Flowers:

June Flowers:

July Flowers:

August Flowers:

September Flowers:

October Flowers:

November Flowers:

December Flowers:

I am grateful for each and everyone who has visited, liked, and or commented on my blog. I hope to see y’all participating in the Which Way Challenge (CWWC) in 2025. Happy New Year!

Sunday Stills: Annual Year in Review

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

Love to all from Coleman and myself.

2025 FOTD: January 1

Plumeria

Flower of the Day

God Bless. Praying for Cee & Chris. Take Care. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Weekend FOTD: 12.28/29

Wood Spurge

Camera: 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 sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Floral Friday: 12.27— Colouring Flowers #48

La Flor de Nochebuena

“Let us all come together and spread happiness and joy using the poinsettia plant, which has always been special.”
MindsQuotes

*Poinsettias*
*Flower of the Holy Night*

“When families gather everywhere, and carols fill the frosty air, May peace come knocking at your door, and dwell within forever more.”
Zazzle

Someone Is Missing At Christmas

Let this be a loving reminder That someone is missing today, Someone our hearts still hold on to, As we travel along life’s way. Someone who made life so special, For all those who gather here. Someone who won’t be forgotten, But cherished from year to year. And now, as we pause to remember,
Let us all fondly recall, How dearly each of us loved her, And oh…how she loved us all!
Copyright 1992 Genie Graveline

Floral Friday

2024 Thursday Trios: 12.26

Wildlife Habitat Flowers

Coleman and I spotted these flowers while hiking along the trail in Central Park the other week. There’s not much in this Wildlife Habitat that we could see, but maybe it’ll seem more appealing in the Spring.

*Metal Flowers*
*Wildlife Habitat*
*Central Park*

*Close-up of Door*
*in building*
*behind the Flowers*

Carol’s Thursday Trios-12.26

Cee’s Flower of the Day (Does Metal Flowers count?)

Dan’s Thursday Doors

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Wildlife Habitat; Hiking Trail; Central Park; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. As we approach 2025, may God watch over you, keep you safe, fill you with hope, joy, peace, and love. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Silent Sunday: 12.22 –

Prunus caroliniana

Silent Sunday

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

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

2024 Weekend FOTD: 12.21/.22

Euphorbia pulcherrima

Stelle di Natale
Aka Christmas Star, Poinsettia

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

2024 Floral Friday: 12.20 — Colouring Flowers #47

“Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it – you feel it. You don’t see it – you believe it.”

Virgin Experience Days

“When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes.”
Frank Laubach
pioneer woman

“The loving, sharing, and giving of Christmas should not just be enjoyed for one day, it should never be put away.”
Virgin Experience Days

Floral Friday

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. 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.

2024 Macro Monday: 12.16

Floral Macro

Macro Monday

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: By the South Fork Catawba River; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

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

2024 Weekend FOTD: 12.14/.15

Sulfur Cosmos

Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2024 Week 49

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

God Bless. Take time to 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.

2024 Floral Friday: 12.13 — Colouring Flowers #46

“May the beauty of Christmas, make your heart bloom with joy!”
123Greetings.com
Mery Christmas

“The holiday season is a perfect time to reflect on our blessings and seek out way to make life better for those around us.”
~ Terri Marshall ~
MONDAY’S FLOWER QUOTE
2018 Hoating Petals, LLC

“It’s not about your presents, but it is about your presence. Therein lies the spirit of the holiday season.”
~ JulieAnne O’Connor ~
MONDAY’S FLOWER QUOTE

“Let the spirit of love gently fill our hearts and homes. In this loveliest of seasons may you find many reasons for happiness.”
Happy Holidays
Quotes Yard

Floral Friday

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. 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.

2024 FOTD: 12.12

Crape Myrtle

Camera: Apple iPhone 13 Pro Wide Camera

Location:Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA

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

2024 FOTD: 12.10 — Poinsettias

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Take time to enjoy nature. Observe the Flowers. Take Care of yourself. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Weekend FOTD: 12.07/.08

Poinsettia

Camera: Apple iPhone 6 Plus Rear Camera

Location: Lancaster County Library; Lancaster, South Carolina, USA

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

2024 FOTD: 12.05

A Garden of Flowers

Location: Holmes County, Ohio

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

2024 FOTD: 12.03 — Daylily

‘Cool Jazz’ daylily
Hemerocallis ‘Cool Jazz’

Cee’s FOTD

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

2024 Weekend FOTD: 11.30/12.01

A Bouquet of Roses

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

2024 Floral Friday: 11.29— Colouring Flowers #45

As I write on this Thanksgiving Day, I am grateful for the friends and followers I have made on WordPress and in my life. I am grateful for all y’all’s insights, inspirations, and encouragement. I am grateful y’all have come into my life and I am able to call y’all my friends.

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Gratitude is a flower
that blooms noble souls.”
~ Pope Francis

“May your day unfold with love
and grace. May your heart
be filled with gratitude.”
~ Kathy Hallowell/pinterest.com

Floral Friday

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. 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.

2024 CPC/LAPC/Numbers Game #49 — Smiling By the River

What makes me smile? My grandson, Coleman makes me smile. Spending time in any one of our Warm Places makes me smile. Spending time out in nature, especially with Coleman, makes me smile and feeling all warm inside. Coleman loves to spend time by the Catawba River. There are several different areas by the Catawba River we enjoy spending time at. This week we enjoyed spending time on a warm sunny afternoon at Riverside Park and Greenway. It makes me smile when I am able to watch Coleman having a Funtastic time playing by the Catawba River. On this day he was having a fabulous time playing in the sand along the banks of the South Fork Catawba River at Riverside Park and Greenway.

Here are a spattering of photos depicting some of what makes me Smile and Warm Inside in one of our Warm places.

Lens-Artists Challenge #326-This Made Me Smile

Cosmic Photo Challenge-In My Warm Place

Judy’s Numbers Game #49-170

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #247

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

God Bless. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very muchg.

2024 Silent Sunday: 11.24

A Walk Through a Garden

Silent Sunday

Camera: Apple iPhone XR Rear Camera

Location: Glencairn Garden; Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA

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

2024 Floral Friday: 11.22— Colouring Flowers #44

“Flowers leave some of
their fragrance in the
hand that bestows them.”
– Chinese proverb

“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

Floral Friday

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Numbers Game #48 —169

Judy invites us all to play along with her each week for her 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.

Judy’s Numbers Game #48-169

CocPhoChal-Down in the Park

God Bless. Take time for yourself. Walk around a Park or Greenway. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 FOTD: Monday —

Catharanthus roseus

*Aka Bright eyes, Cape periwinkle, Graveyard plant, Madagascar periwinkle, Old Maid, Pink periwinkle, Rose periwinkle*

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Riverside Baptist Church; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

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

2024 Weekend FOTD: 11.17

Multiflora Spreading/Trailing Petunia

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Outside Mayworth Public House; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

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

2024 FOTD: 11.14 — For Cee

Cee, I have loved being apart of all your challenges for the past three years. You have always been encouraging and inspiring with all your challenges, comments, and friendly kindness and support of my (all of our) photography and posts. I’m thinking of you and praying for you.

Here’s a Bouquet of Flowers for You

One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-November 2024

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Thank you Cee for all your support and encouragement. I have cherished our blogging friendship. Chris, thank you for keeping us informed and taking care of Cee for us. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Judy’s Numbers Game #47-168

Once Silent, Now Lively

The playground at Goat Island Park and Greenway had been “Silent” since the winds and storms caused by Hurricane Helene came through our area flooding many a Greenway including Goat Island Greenway. While there is still work to be done around the Greenway and the playground area, enough has been done to allow the playground to mostly reopen with the exception of the big green slide and a few other insignificant areas (at least as far as the children are concerned). The Goat Island Park and Greenway’s Playground now welcomes children once again inviting them to play, climb, and enjoy its equipment; hence the Playground is Alive and Lively once more.

Judy’s Numbers Game #47-168

Pull up a Seat Photo Challenge 2024-Week 45

Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2024 Week 45

Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #243

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: 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.

2024 Macro Monday: 11.11

Chrysanthemum × morifolium

Aka in the US as florist’s daisy
& hardy garden mum

Macro Monday

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location: Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

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

2024 Weekend FOTD: 11.10

Sweetunia Burgundy Petunia

Petunia ‘Sweetunia Burgundy’

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location:Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Smell the Flowers. See the Beauty in Simplicity. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Floral Friday: 11.08— Colouring Flowers #43

For You

Brighten Your Day

“Amidst life’s chaos, find your happiness in the simple elegance of tulips.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Tulips are the poets of the garden, whispering tales of strength and beauty to those who listen with their hearts.”
Alice Hoffman
Simplybeyondherbs.com

No matter your circumstances, tulips/flowers bring about a smile, happiness, peace and strength to see you through all your tomorrows.

Floral Friday

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Take time to Smell the Flowers. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Thursday Trios: 11.07 — Ipomoea purpurea

Tall Morning Glory

*Aka common morning-glory,*
*purple morning glory*

The morning glory plants entwine themselves around structures, growing to a height of 2-3 m (6 ft 7 in – 9 ft 10 in) tall. Their leaves are heart-shaped and the stems are covered with brown hairs. The flowers are trumpet-shaped, predominantly blue to purple or white.

These Purple Morning Glories are located on the side of a small hill below railroad tracks up the street from our home. I found it interesting how they are entwined with the gravel as they climb the hill and how they rise up towards the sky in the mornings.

Carol’s Thursday Trios

#Square flower

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location:Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Smell the Flowers. See the Beauty in Simplicity. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Judy’s Numbers Game #46 — 167

For Judy’s “The Numbers Game #46” Game she invites all to play along. Here are her ideas on how to play along in this challenge. This week’s number is 167. 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.

Judy’s Numbers Game #46-167

Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2024 Week 44

God Bless. Take Care. Don’t be Upset and Angry about Political Results; Remember God is in Control. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Greenway Autumn Squares: 11.06

For C & B

I miss Cee when I do not see her posts and pray she is well. I love Squaring for Becky & appreciate all she & Cee do for our blogosphere.

#Square flower

#AutumnSquares

FOTD

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

God Bless. Thinking of Cee & Becky. Pray you’re feeling better. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Out of Storms & Marshes

Grows New Life

As Coleman and I were walking along the trail (and even a little off trail) around the Riverside Greenway, I noticed a marshy area where the flood waters were still surrounding many plants and vegetation. Other areas where the flood waters had recently receded were still mushy and difficult to walk through, but Coleman is a trooper and loves to explore everything. With all the devastation caused by the storm and strong winds, I was amazed to see signs of new plant life sprouting in amongst the tremendous amount of leaves near fallen trees. No matter how things may seem, God is in control. New life begins once again.

“The marsh did not confine them but defined them and, like any sacred ground, kept their secrets deep.”
From Where the Crawdads Sing.
– Delia Owens

*Marsh in Riverside*
*Park and Greenway*

“Every day is a fresh beginning; Every morn is the world made new.”
– Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
– T.S. Eliot

“Be a miracle that grows. Live deeply from the soul.”
Angie Weiland-Crosby

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

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

A Trio of Rosa Multiflora Squared for Cee’s Weekend FOTD

Squaring for Cee & Becky

*Aka Japanese rose,*
*many-flowered rose,*
*seven-sisters rose*

#Square flower

Carol’s Thursday Trios

Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max

Location:Cramerton, North Carolina, USA

God Bless. Enjoy Nature. Smell the Flowers. See the Beauty in Simplicity. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.

2024 Monochrome Monday: 10.28

Squaring in Monochrome for C & B

Monochrome Monday

#Square flower

Leanne’s Monochrome Madness

Camera: Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max

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

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

2024 Weekend FOTD Squared for C & B

Tithonia rotundifolia

**Mexican sunflower,**
the **red sunflower**

#Square flower