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
Sunday Stills: June – Great #Outdoors Month
Terri’s Sunday Stills Challenge.
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Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge
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Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
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Rubus idaeus ‘Caroline’ (Everbearing Raspberry) is a fall-fruit big cultivar producing high yields of large, highly flavored, red raspberries which are perfect for eating or preserves.
Raspberry plants can fruit on different types of canes, and these are categorized into primocane and floricane. Both primocane (first year) fruiting and floricane (second year) fruiting raspberries have both primocanes and floricanes growing from the plant after the first year.
Primocane fruiting raspberries, commonly called Everbearing raspberries, produce flowers and fruit on first year canes. Primocane varieties will produce a moderate crop in June and a much larger crop from late August until frost.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon EF-S18-55mm lens f/8 1/160 55mm ISO100
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Leanne’s Monochrome Madness
Bren’s Mid-Week Monochrome
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens. f/9 1/200 300mm ISO400
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Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max Ultra Wide Angle f/2.2 13mm
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NPC #15: Birds feeding and drinking
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Ludwigs Monday Windows
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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One Word Sunday Challenge-Light
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Natalie’s Photographing Public Art Challenge
John’s Cellpic Sunday
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Views of the sky over the Warlick YMCA in Gastonia, North Carolina:
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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From my Canon EOS Rebel T3i:
From my iPhone 14 Pro Max:
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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All photos were taken along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina back October of 2017 when my eldest son and I took a scenic drive on the Parkway to delight and enjoy the amazingly beautiful autumn views.
Ragtag Daily Prompt (RDP) Saturday Challenge
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My any kind of seating involves any seating that Coleman deems acceptable for a place for him to sit. His choices of seating are not always what I would choose, but hey, if he’s happy with his choice of seating who am I to say it’s not his kind of seating.
Cee’s Black and White Challenge
Leanne’s Monochrome Madness
Bren’s Mid-Week Monochrome
XingfuMama’s Pull Up a Seat Photo Challenge
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Fandango’s One Word Challenge: Devoid
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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This week’s selections come from the Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, South Carolina. These were taken when I took my grandson, Coleman to visit the horses he so enjoys visiting. Most of the horses were in or near the stables. You can see in slide three, the horses do love to run around in the pasture.
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Green:
Mostly Yellow:
Mostly Blue:
Mostly Reddish:
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Annd of Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #251
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Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF-S-18-55mm lens f/5.6 • 1/250 • 55mm • ISO100
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The N.C. Transportation Museum is a historic site, once home to Southern Railway’s largest steam locomotive repair facility in the southeast, and a museum featuring all types of transportation history – railroading, automotive, aviation, and more.
Ludwigs Monday Windows
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The place I consider my Haven of Peace would be around the lake at Andrew Jackson State Park. Whenever I feel stressed and need a breath of fresh air and communion with nature, AJ State Park has been my go to place for years. It used to be a short distance from where I lived, not so much now.
Nowadays,my circumstances have changed. I do not have ready access to a vehicle anymore, so I can not just jump in a car and go to AJ like I used to.
What I do lately is to go out to a park, a greenway, or any place out in nature where I can be amongst the trees, creeks, rivers, or lakes. I often (when I have transportation) go hiking with my grandson. He loves being out in the woods with me. It is so peaceful. We enjoy gazing out upon the water wherever we might wander. When we are out in the woods the trails we hike are more likely than not next to or parallel to a lake or river.
When near a lake or river we stop, relax, and breath it all in and let the stress or worries flow out of us. The waters emanate a soothing, calming affect which is extremely peaceful.
These are all photos taken around the lake at Andrew Jackson State Park, my Haven of Peace.
Nature Photo Challenge #14: Your haven of peace
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #178
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Echinacea Sombrero Salsa Red displays single rows of drooping, deep orange-red ray petals around a sombrero-shaped, orange-brown cone. The lightly fragrant flowers attract butterflies! They provide long lasting color in the garden.
These are reded daisy-like flowers with dark cones and are produced on strong, well branched stems. Echinacea is well known for its large, daisy-like flowers. It is a bold, sturdy perennial sporting flowers with a large cone-shaped center, hence its common name of Coneflower.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Settings: f/2.2 1/381 2.22mm ISO40
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Avon and Catawba Creeks Greenway
Cosmic Photo Challenge: I’ll see you in the trees.
Posting for Alive & Trekking’s Which Way Photo Challenge.
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
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Terri’s Sunday Stills Challenge.
Jez’s Water Water Everywhere #177
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Debbies One Word Sunday: Shadow
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John’s Cellpic Sunday
Kate’s Whatsoever Is Lovely Challenge.
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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It is also known by African Arrowroot, Arrowroot, Canna, Edible Canna, and Wild Canna Lily among a few other names.
The rhizomes of cannas are rich in starch, and have many uses in agriculture. All of the plant material has commercial value, rhizomes for starch (consumption by humans and livestock), stems and foliage for animal fodder, young shoots as a vegetable, and young seeds as an addition to tortillas.
Other interesting uses include the hard black seeds of the Arrowroot having been used in the 19th century as bullets when ammunition was limited. The seeds are also used for making jewelry and musical instruments such as rattles.
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge
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Found in Plants, Flowers, & Trees:
Found in & Around Animals:
Cee’s Black and White Challenge
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The Brahman is an American breed of zebuine-taurine hybrid beef cattle. Zebuine (Asian humped) cattle were present in the United States from 1849, when a single bull of Indian origin was imported from the United Kingdom to South Carolina. Cross-breeding of these with local taurine cows was the first step in the creation of the Brahman breed.
Photo Credit:©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Echinacea purpurea is recognisable by its purple cone-shaped flowers. It is native to eastern North America and present to some extent in the wild in much of the eastern, southeastern and midwest United States. It is often known as the purple coneflower.
Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
Location: Horse Stables Entrance, Anne Springs Close Greenway
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Coleman & I went hiking along the Avon and Catawba Creeks Greenway and spotted the sand and water underneath the bridge. He loves looking at the water and sand fascinates him. He would have loved to go down and play in it.
While he was watching the movement of the water, I decided to play around the the different black and white settings on my iPhone. The above photos are the results.
Leanne’s Monochrome Madness
Bren’s Mid-Week Monochrome
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Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T3i with Canon EF 75-300mm lens.
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Photo Credit: ©️Deb L. Waters
Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Posting for Alive & Trekking’s Which Way Photo Challenge.
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Cee’s Flower of the Day Challenge
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Camera: iPhone 14 Pro Max
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Amy of Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.
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Natural and necessary
Antidote to Acquire and
Promote improved Performance
Naps are beneficial and not just for children. Naps can be a way to refresh and recharge mid-day. They can give you the boosted energy you need to meet the demands of your afternoon and evening. They can help to improve your mood, mental awareness, and added energy levels. They help in reducing daytime sleepiness, also boosts your learning and performance. For children, they can improve their behavior and emotional self-regulation, as well as aid their memory and language learning.
Coleman doesn’t like or want to take naps if you suggest or tell him to take one. That being said, when he is worn out he will nap basically anywhere. Sometimes I just wish he would nap sooner so he would listen and follow instructions better, instead of falling asleep when he’s supposed to be eating.
Naps are not for everyone, but if you feel like you need to take a nap do not feel guilty about taking one. Remember naps are beneficial to the mind as well as the body.
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Gfpacificbee’s Insights & photography 