Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography
This blog is for my insights on life, the Bible, hiking adventures with my grandson and whatever is important to me
Bren’s Floral Friday
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS 2000D with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens
Location:Centennial Center; Downtown Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a fantastic weekend. Enjoy Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all very much.
Clematis terniflora, also known as Japanese clematis is a weedy, twining perennial vine in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae that is native to Japan, Korea and central and southern China.
Japanese Clematis, even though it may look beautiful, it is a vigorous grower in full sun or partial shade and spreads by self-seeding, layering, and runners.
It has escaped cultivation to invade forest edges, right-of-ways, and areas along streams and roads. It climbs other vegetation, forming dense blankets that block sunlight to the plants underneath. The showy white flowers appear in late summer. It is considered an invasive species in some states in the eastern US.
Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple 16 Pro Max Ultra Wide Camera
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Get Outdoors. Take a Walk. Enjoy Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
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Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: 8th Ave; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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Bren’s Floral Friday
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple 16 Pro Max
Location: Riverside Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a fantastic weekend. Enjoy Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all very much.
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Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters
Camera:Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: River Link Greenway Trail; Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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Cee’s Flower of the Day (FOTD)
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL filter attachments.
Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a funtastic weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
The Farmhouse Garden Center is located at The Village at Stowe, a part of the Daniel Stowe Conservancy. It is more than just a Garden shop, it is a delightfully warm and inviting destination for those who love and admire plants and flowers regardless of you are a home gardener or not. The flowers are beautiful and displays are enticing.
The Farmhouse offers educational opportunities such as workshops on wreath-making, floral arranging, gardening, and any and all other aspect related to plant care.
For more information about Thursday Trios check out Mama Cormier’s page by clicking here.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL filter attachments.
Location: The Farmhouse Garden Center; Daniel Stowe Conservancy; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Enjoy the rest of your week and have a marvelous weekend. Take time to admire the flowers wherever you may wander. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
We didn’t do anything different on the 20th than we would normally do on any other day. Coleman and I enjoy being outdoors and wander through the woods whenever we possibly can. Right now in our area the weather is in the mid to high 90’s, much too hot to be out in the sun for any length of time.
With the heat advisory regarding the extreme heat temperatures, we only go out for short periods at a time. In those short periods Coleman likes to check to see what new blossoms have started blooming. These are some of what we have seen within the past week till now.
Sunday Stills Monthly Color Challenge Shades of #Pink in the Great Outdoors
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Say hello to Summer
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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Toucan® Scarlet
Canna Lily
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL filter attachments.
Location: The Center; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: 1-6) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV & CPL filter attachments; 7-8) Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Rocky Branch Trail; Cramerton/Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a wonderful week and weekend. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Pink Calla Lily
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion Camera
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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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: River Link Greenway; South Fork River Trail; Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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Lagerstroemia indica ‘Tuscarora’
“When Sun warms Earth,
~ Margaret Simon
Myrtle knows to shed her skin
and show her inside beauty.”
Thinking of summer nearing with the end of the school year approaching, Crape Myrtle’s beginning to bloom once again with the heat encroaching upon the earth surface displaying beauty in all its glory.
“I have a secret
~ Linda Mitchell
It’s a bit of gold
hidden away
only Myrtle knows”
There are many times Coleman will walk on by the flowers in bloom and then there are times like these when he’ll stop, sniff the blooms and admire their beauty and fragrance.
“Myrtle knows
~ Rose Cappelli
Her dress is so last year.
Underneath—mottled beauty
For fashion’s new season.”
Cee’s FOTD ( Flower of the Day) Challenge
Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S75-300mm lens.
Location: Gastonia County Warlick Family YMCA; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stop and smell the flowers. Enjoy Nature’s bountiful beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Cee’s/(Chris) Flower of the Day
Photo Credit:©️2020 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max
Location: Lake Haigler Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Admire the beautiful flowers wherever you go. Take Care and have a wonderful week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Calico Aster
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.
Agraulis vanillae on Zinnia elegans
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.
Lantana camera
Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF75-300mm lens
Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
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Wood Spurge
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S18-55mm lens
Location: The Schiele Museum of Natural History; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Sulfur Cosmos
Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2024 Week 49
Photo Credit: 2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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.
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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.
Multiflora Spreading/Trailing Petunia
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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.
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
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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.
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.
Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2024 Week 44
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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.
Calla Lily
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Smell the Flowers. Enjoy the Outdoors. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Perennial Garden
Andrew Jackson State Park
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.
Photo Credit: ©️2022 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 13 Pro Wide Camera
Location: Lake Haigler; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
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Sunflower
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Begonias
Becky’s Squares-#Seven for September
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Begonia cucullata
Begonia cucullata are also known as clubbed begonia and wax begonia. When grown as groundcover, the flowers of the plant are red, pink, or white that bloom in summer or year-round in warmer places, and the fruits have three wings. [This time of year it is extremely hot here (I know it could be hotter) in the mid-nineties. These begonias thrive where we (Coleman and I) are overwhelmed by the extreme heat and are rolling in sweat just walking him to school and back home.
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Harris Teeter; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Pink Velour Crape Myrtle
The Pink Velour Crape Myrtle is a type of Lagerstroemia indica crape myrtle tree. The flower colouring changes with the season. In the summer its blooms are a bright Hot Pink changing to a burgundy in the fall.
One can find the Lagerstroemia all across the Southern Atlantic States. Similar to the southern Magnolia, the crape Myrtle has come to symbolize the American South due to its extensive planting and ability to thrive in hot, humid summer climates with regular precipitation. It has brilliant color in late summer and autumn unlike other trees/shrubs which have already exhausted their blooms.
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Gardner Park Neighborhood; Gastonia, North Carolina, USA
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God Bless. Have a wonderful day. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
God Bless. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
I’m hoping to have some sunny sunshine anyways. We’ve been having a tremendous amount of rain and wind from the outskirts of Hurricane Debby/Tropical Storm Debby ( now Tropical Depression Debby). At least I can dream of sunshine even if we do not get it for several days yet.
Leigha’s Sunny Sunday Challenge
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2024 Week 31
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Take time to stop and smell the flowers. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
1 John 3:18 (NIV)
Photo Credit: ©️1978 Nornal H. Waters ( My dad) … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Minolta XG-7 35mm
Converter: Wolverine Digital Converter
Location: San Diego Wild Animal Park (now known as San Diego Zoo Safari Park); Escondido, San Diego County, California, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting. Have a wonderful week and enjoy the flowers. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Viburnum opulus
Photo Credit: ©️2022 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 13 Pro
Location: Riverwalk; Piedmont Medical Center Trail; Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
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Epiphyllum
This Epiphyllum was captured by my dad while walking along the Epiphyllum Trail at the San Diego Wild Animal Park (Now recognized as San Diego Zoo Safari Park).
The Epiphyllum Trail is located between Walkabout Australia and Condor Ridge at the Wild Animal Park. The Trail is a beautiful tribute to these orchid cactuses. The Epiphyllums bloom in April and May to an unforgettable glorious burgeoning of brilliant tropical jewel-toned blossoms.
Photo Credit:©️1978 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Minolta XG-7 35mm
Converter : Wolverine Digital Converter
Location: San Diego Wild Animal Park; Escondido, San Diego County, California, USA
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Catalpa bignonioides
Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2024 Week 30
Photo Credit: ©️1978 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Minolta XG-7 35mm
Location: San Diego Wild Animal Park (Currently called San Diego Zoo Safari Park); Escondido, San Diego County, California, USA
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Julian Mountain Flowers
Photo Credit:©️1978 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Minolta XG-7 35mm
Converter : Wolverine Digital Converter
Location: Julian, California, USA
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Flowers & Wings
in the Bright Sunshine
Wings on Bright Flowers
Terri’s Sunday Stills-Wings
The Cosmic Photo Challenge-What’s flowering where you are?
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #308-Perfect Pairs
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Greenway Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thankful for a slight break from all the rain. Wish we could have a break from this extreme heat. Thank you for sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Orange Rest Stop Flowers
Photo Credit: ©️1979 Nornal H. Waters (my dad) … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Minolta XG-7 35mm
Location: Near San Francisco; Rest Stop; Along Pacific Coast Highway, California, USA
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Plumeria
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Judy’s Numbers Game can bring about interesting results and insights from those who choose to participate. The challenge is alive, let’s join the fun. In searching for the #149 and its variations the results that popped are displayed below in this post.
#149. Around the Greenway
#149 Deviations Around Gastonia
Photo Credit:©️2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
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Star Reflections
Debbie’s One Word Sunday’s word this week is Star. Here are my interpretations on Star for this week’s challenge.
Using a Star Filter
Canon Photography
Altura ⭐️ Star✨ Filters
Star Reflections
in Robinwood Lake
Star Flowers
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: 2024 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T3i and iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography 