Continuing with the ABC Along,  C is for…….

Camelia,  my favorite flower.

This is a pink perfection camelia, my favorite of the camelias that I’m familiar with.  I took this photo just before leaving Florida.  I had received this camelia as a birthday gift a few years back from my grandmother and had planted it just outside our front bay window.  I particularly love this camelia for how tightly twisted it is and the crispness of the petals.

In actuality I like Camelias so much that Anna Grace was nearly named Camille.  I thought it was a good, strong southern name and it reminded me of camelias.  Not saying I wouldn’t still use it (in the highly unlikely chance that I ever have another child…I’m gettin’ up there in maternity years) but one thing that stopped me was that I didn’t want folks calling her Cami.  Right now that doesn’t seem so important.  But at the time, when I was huge, hormonal, etc, it seemed like a pretty big deal.