Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography
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Lilium ‘Tiny Parrot’
Spring’s Lilium ‘Tiny Parrot’ eight day blooming progression in a local neighbourhood garden.
Dawn’s Spring Festival 2025 #8
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Seventh Street; Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Triple ‘Tiny Double You’s’
Coleman and I have been watching these lilies slowly begin to bloom each day we walk past them on our way to and from his bus stop.
Here are a few more to show the progression from Saturday through today.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a Joyous Holy 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: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Centennial Center Park; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a sunshiny day. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Good Day to everyone! It is a cool spring morning and I’m wishing I was still asleep. However, that’s not possible when it’s a school day for Coleman. Instead of falling back asleep after arriving back home from the bus stop, I’m here writing and fixing to upload another post. Who needs sleep anyway? I’ll probably fall back asleep after arriving a little bit of reading 📖.
Now before I begin reading it is time to show y’all some lovely pastel florals from my neighbours gardens.
Stop and Smell the Flowers. Enjoy Nature’s Beauty.
God Bless. You are Beautiful. Share your beautiful smiles and love to everyone in your path. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Spring is the time when Water Lilies bloom, specifically between Early to mid-May to mid-June in our southern region of the United States. People in tend to get excited the closer it gets to blooming season. The blossoms of the water lilies are strikingly impressive especially in beauty or excellence when in full bloom.
Rocky Shoals Spider Lilies (Hymenocallis coronaria)
Fragrant Water-Lilies (Nymphaea odorata)
“Water Lilies’ is an extension of my life. Without the woter the lilies cannot live, as I am without art.”
Claude Monet
Dawn’s Spring Festival 2025 -Week 7
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“Like everyone else, I was always fond of flowers, attracted by their external beauty and purity. Now my eyes wee opened to their inner beauty, all alike revealing glorious traces of the thoughts of God, and leading on and on into the infinite cosmos.”
John Muir, Essential Muir: A Selection of John Muir’s Best Writings
“If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn’t be able to make even a single drop of honey”
Matshona Dhliwayo
“You belong among the wildflowers. You belong in a boat out at sea. You belong with your love on your arm. You belong somewhere free.”
-Tom Petty
God Bless. 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.
Aka Lanceleaf Tickseed, Sand Coreopsis
Photo Credit:©️2020 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max Telephoto Camera
Location: Andrew Jackson State Park; Lancaster, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. 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: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Fusion Camera
Location: Downtown; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Take time to enjoy the beautiful flowers. Enjoy a walk. 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: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Telephoto Camera
Location: Cramerton Independent Presbyterian Church; 151 Eighth Avenue ; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a wonderful Easter and a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Spring Flowers are springing up up and down the river and riverbanks. Coleman and I took a walk on Friday to Riverside Park and Greenway, I was amazed at all the beautiful flowers sprouting into bloom.
Here are some of the flowers we came across that are starting to blossom. There are signs that indicate other flowers will blossom in the next week or so.
The Green Arrow Arum should begin blooming in the next two-three weeks, about the same timeframe as the Spider Lilies.
Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2025 Week 15
God Bless. Take time to enjoy the Beauty in Nature. Be thankful for your blessings. Have a wonderful week ahead. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Sending you this Special Easter wish filled with my sweet love and peace. Wishing y’all a happy Easter in a very sweet and special way!
“May your Easter be happy, May your day be bright, May you enjoy the treats, And sweet delights.
©️By Bill Hoeneveld
But remember the meaning, Remember God’s gift, Remember the resurrection, May your soul uplift.”
God Bless. 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.
Host this week for Monochrome Madness is Dawn from The Day After. She has chosen a theme of Everything Spring.
Springtime in the Carolinas entails anything and everything from Spring sports like T-Ball for Coleman, to Kayaking through the Catawba River, to simply rolling in the grass at an outdoor concert, to the beauty of Spring flowers. And who can’t forget about the Spring festivities surrounding the Easter Egg Scramble. Let us not forget what this Holiday Season is all about. It is not about the Easter eggs hunts, even though the children enjoy them, it’s about the Crucifixion of Jesus and his Resurrection. We celebrate that “He is Risen!”.
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
— Anne Frank
Dawn’s Monochrome Madness-Everything Spring
To check out the guidelines for Monochrome Madness and/or upcoming themes check out Leanne’s Monochrome Madness page here.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max and Canon EOS Rebel T3i
Location: Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. May God bless you at Easter and keep you all year through. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
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.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 album:
Cee’s Flower of the Day (Chris)
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #265
Photo Credit:©️2020-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. Wishing you a blessed Good Friday. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Autumn Fire Encore
Azalea Shrubs
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Centennial Center; Downtown Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a Joyous Holy Week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
A Hodgepodge of Dramatic Shades of Purple; from lovely flowers to amazingly colourful skies, and a beautiful artwork depicting the Cross on a hill called Golgotha, also known as Calvary. Enjoy the scenery and join in the challenge if you’re so inclined. Check out the Sunday Stills Challenge here.
Sunday Stills-Dramatic Shades of #Purple
Photo Credit:©️2015-2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
God Bless. May your world be lit with joy and happiness. 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 ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
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.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 album.
Cee’s Chris’ Flower of the Day
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Cornus florida,
the Flowering Dogwood
Click on each image for enhanced viewing.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved
Camera:1 & 3) Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max; 2) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura 4-Star & CPL Filter attachments.
Location: Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Observe the Beauty in Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Petunia Easy Wave Yellow
Today I decided to post a flower in memory of Cee’s Weekend FOTD. This past year with her declining health Cee combined Saturday/Sunday Flower of the Day into Weekend FOTD. These are three different processing images of my original Petunia Easy Wave Yellow photo image.
Original:
One:
Two:
Three:
One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-April 2025
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved. No reproduction or Reuse without the express consent of the copyright owner.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max Ultra Wide Camera
Location: Outside of TanninWine House; Center Street; Town of Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
I am dedicating this Which Way Challenge (CWWC) in Memory of Cee Neuner who loved photographing flowers and hosted several challenges over her blogging career. With that in mind I have chosen to have my Which Way theme of Any Which Way with Flowers (Flower Pathways).
For other Which Ways you might like to check out the following posts:
TGERIATRIX’s Which Way with shades of green
TGERIATRIX’s Which Way with bridges
Deb’s Which Way Challenge (CWWC)-Any Which Way (Your Choice)
God Bless. Please keep Chris in your thoughts & Prayers. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Verbascum thapsus
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts. I appreciate y’all very much.
“People are not cactuses, they need plenty of water and, when talking about friendship, the water is our time.”
~ Birute Sol
“Life is full of prickly situations. Handle them with care.”
Cactus Quotes
“Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
God Bless. 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.
Spring Garden
Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden
Photo Credit:©️2023 Deb L. Waters
Location: Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden; Belmont, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stop and admire the Beautiful Flowers. Thank you visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Blossoming into Spring
This week Dale with the Cosmic Photo Challenge has asked us to share What’s Flowering in Our Areas… With Spring having arrived for many of us many plants and flowers are sprouting up and beginning to blossom showing their loving bright and vibrant colours.
Being the theme of Flowers I have decided to link this post to Cee’s Flower of the Day and also link to Judy’s Numbers Game #65-186 with Flowers as my theme for all challenges.
Here are my entries for these challenges …
Cosmic Photo Challenge-What’s flowering where you are?
God Bless. Have a wonderfully beautiful and blessed day. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Photo Credit:©️2020 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max
Location: S. 7th St.; Abilene, Texas, USA
God Bless. Take Care. Thinking & Praying for Cee. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with me. I appreciate y’all very much.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Gideon House; Greenway Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Thinking of you Cee! Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Happy Spring!
“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
Leo Tolstoy
“It is spring again.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.”
“You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry. Don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”
Walter Hagen
God Bless. 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.
On Tuesday after Coleman arrived home from school, his mom and I took him to the Baseball field to practice his hitting and fielding. Coleman just recently been assigned to a team for T-Ball.
Anyway, after his mom was tired of helping him practice Coleman and I took a short hike down to the river. The C.B. Huss River access is located off the Eleventh (11) Street parking lot. The Kayak rack is located at the river access trailhead.
Last Thursday, Coleman and I hiked the backside of Goat Island Park and Greenway. We hiked along a back road to reach the far side of the South Fork Catawba River. When we reached our starting point, we came upon these three pipes seemingly discarded near the river.
Walking a bit off trail, we saw these three tree stems, limbs, or branches sticking up out of the water. It is always intriguing to see what interesting things we can find along our hikes.
These Wild Daffodils were saw near the river while we were walking up the road to begin our hike for the day.
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: 1,3-4) Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max; 2) Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV Filter attachment.
Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have triple the fun. Enjoy Outdoor life. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Pyrus calleryana
Photo Credit: 2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Nature’s Beauty blossoming all around us. Stop and admire the beautiful flowers. 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: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location Greenway Stables Entrance; Anne Springs Close Greenway; Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA
God Bless. Take time to smell and admire the Flowers. 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: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stop and Smell the Flowers. Enjoy the beauty in Nature. 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: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Old Town; Riverside Community; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Observe the Beauty in Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
God Bless. Springtime will be here soon. Enjoy the pleasant weather and the beautiful flowers all around. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with w. I appreciate y’all very much.
“Have you ever watched a Water Lily grow?
Abigal Wieser
They are creatures of the light. Slowly, they unfold their bodies and offer their
scented song to the world.”
FlowersBloomHope.com
“Let us rise above the muck and live gracefully in the light of this world instead of mired in its darkness.”
Reddit
God Bless. 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.
Orchids
God Bless. Praying for Cee. Take Good Care of each other Chris. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Judy Dykstra-Brown with the blog lifelessons hosts a challenge called The 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.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 album.
This week’s number is 184. Here are my entries for this week’s Numbers Game #63 challenge.
This week’s images are a mixture of places I’ve visited throughout the years. From California to Mexico; from Georgia to the Carolinas and northward up to Ohio. And of course, I had to include a picture of Coleman. I hope you enjoy and decide to play along as well.
God Bless. Have an enjoyably pleasant week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
I have not been able to plant flowers in a really long time, however, that does not stop me from enjoying them or photographing them. Hopefully one day I will live in a place where I’ll be able to plant, water, feed, and nourish my own plants and flowers.
Here is a gallery array of some of my favourite flowers over the years:
“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
Terri’s Sunday Stills-Favourite Flowers
God Bless. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Narcissus hispanicus
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Carolina Thread Trail; Riverside Park and Greenway; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stop and Enjoy the Beautiful Flowers. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Oenothera fruticosa
Photo Credit: ©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Cramer Mountain; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Stop and Smell the Flowers. Enjoy the beauty in Nature. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
“The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly.”
Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun
“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.”
Ernest Hemingway
God Bless. 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.
The Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge colour for this week is Yellow. I have decided to combine this week’s challenge with Judy’s Numbers Game Challenge with various Yellow images to brighten your world.
“Be the yellow fire of inspiration in your corner of the world.”
Yellow can be seen all around us; on vehicles like school buses, construction vehicles, and cars.
“Yellow: the color of warmth, joy, and endless possibilities.”
SIMPLYBEYONDHERBS.COM
“In the garden of friendship, yellow blooms of laughter and joy never fade.”
– Unknown
Weekly Prompts Colour Challenge – Yellowish
God Bless. Be a Ray of Sunshine. Spread joy to all around you. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Magnolia ‘Jane’
Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge-2025 Week 09
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Camera: Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: N. Main Street; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a lovely fun-filled day. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
“There’s so much beauty in the small things, like a poppy field, or a single sunset over the sea. So make each day an adventure.”
SimplyBeyondHerbs
“Amidst the poppies, I learned to see people like flowers – each unique, fragile, and deserving of care.”
SimplyBeyondHerbs
“May your life be a canvas painted with the hues of a poppy’s dreams.”
SimplyBeyondHerbs
God Bless. 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
Juncus effusus
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: The Center; Downtown Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Smell the Flowers. Thankful for Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
This week’s Lens-Artist Challenge is hosted by Sofia Alves with the blog PHOTOGRAPHIAS. She has chosen a theme of BOLD for this week.
Being Bold is not always easy especially if you’re timid or introverted, however being Bold in your photography is well worth it if you’re able to capture that thrilling moment, that “perfect shot.”
“Your life is your canvas, and you are the masterpiece. There are a million ways to be kind, amazing, fabulous, creative, bold, and interesting.”
Kerli
“Be original;
Ed Sheeran
don’t be scared
of being bold!”
Sofia’s Lens-Artist Photo Challenge #337 – BOLD
Photo Credit:©️2025 Deb L. Waters … All Rights Reserved.
Cameras: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S55-250mm lens and Altura UV Filter attachment; Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max
Location: Goat Island Park and Greenway; Downtown Cramerton; Cramerton, North Carolina, USA
God Bless. Have a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.
Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography 