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StacyBeeVee
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Looking for the bright spots, but don’t wear rose-colored glasses. Morning walks with the best dog ever keep me sane(-ish).

Words to live by: Do no harm and take no shit.
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I thought maybe a little diversion would be nice. So here are the wild parakeets who believe they own my bird feeder, arriving yesterday during a break between storms. They are greedy and loud but I love them so.

Also FDT. WTAF.

#bitds #nature #photography
#california #lookingforthebrightspots
Wild Nanday parakeets with black heads and green feathers land on a tree top. Four birds in various stages of flight and landing. Billowy clouds behind with glimpses of bright blue sky. See other photo text… same description just more birds.
January 4, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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First morning walk of the new year. Visited my spirit tree, this grand mother of an oak, because I needed to give her hug and feel her strength flow back into me.

This is the view from her center.

Take of yourselves and each other in the coming year. Peace.

#trees #nature #photography
Looking up from the center of a grand oak, with the lens capturing only maybe 10% of her canopy. Her trunk too wide to capture accurately as well. She is much larger than she appears. The sky beyond her wet dark branches and green leaves is barely gray, brightened by the sun that is cloaked by the clouds.
January 1, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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Morning walk with sunshine! Fog was light and burned off not long after this shot. The calm after the storm.

Peace to you all.

#trees #lake #nature #photography
#lookingforthebrightspots
View of lake with the sun just rising beyond some trees that are dark silhouettes. The sky is partly softened by fog and steam rises from the lake to meet it. Shoreline reeds in the foreground.
December 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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It’s a new day. One way or another.

May you find your peace, whatever that looks like for you.

#morningwalk #trees #photography
#nature #lookingforthebrightspots
Vivid green grass with tall trees, some with bare winter branches. Low fog hangs over the lake beyond with bright blue skies above.
December 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Merry Christmas Eve… raining too hard to take a photo today without soaking my phone. Instead here’s a calm moment from a few days ago at the beach.

#birds #ocean #california #photography
#lookingforthebrightspots
Four pelicans in flight beyond the waves. They are each in a different flight pose, close to the water, calm and blue. Lightly foggy skies beyond and above.
December 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Morning walk. Foggy and gray and quiet.

Peace to you all.

#lake #trees #nature #photography
#lookingforthebrightspots
Fog obscures the rising sun and blurs the hills beyond the water and trees. Just a hint of yellow shines through but mostly the photo looks black and white even though it’s not.
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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This guy all curled up is one of my favorite views. I think I wouldn’t mind, in my next life, being a well-loved dog with a comfortable home.

Wishing you all a calm and cozy Sunday.

#dogs #photography
#lookingforthebrightspots
December 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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From this past Sunday church, a fellow parishioner. If I’m correct this is a juvenile, a “second winter” California Seagull.

Sat with us a good long time enjoying the view and the quiet.

Peace to you all.

#birds 🪶 #california #photography
#nature #lookingforthebrightspots
A seagull stands in the sand, head turned in profile toward the surf rolling in behind. Its mottled soft white and brown feathers indicate its youth. Its beak is gray with a black tip.
December 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Morning walk. Things are feeling extra dark and bleak rolling into this holiday season and I don’t know what to do about it other than to keep looking for the bright spots.

Nature heals. Take care out there.

#roses #bloomscrolling #photography
#lookingforthebrightspots #nature
Pink-to-peach rose just starting to bloom out. Morning dew creates sparkles on the petals and the texture of the rose shows through.
December 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Another Sunday morning at church. Best place to be.

#ocean #beach #clouds #photography
#lookingforthebrightspots
Sitting on the beach looking to the left with the surf rolling in. The sun glows through the dark gray morning fog and clouds that are just starting to lift and break away. The oceans looks like a dark teal metallic in the light.
December 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Morning walk. That is all. All I need.

Sending you peace.

#photography #trees #nature
#california #lookingforthebrightspots
An old wood fence runs at angle in the foreground. Evergreen trees of various kinds are in focus behind the fence line with green hills and a blue sky are beyond. The golden glow of a morning sun lights everything from the left.
December 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Morning walk. Still fall. Everything is golden.

#photography #nature
#lookingforthebrightspots
Golden leaves backlit by the rising sun. Rays illuminate the leaves while calm water and silhouetted hills create a backdrop.
December 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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If you’re not familiar with SoCal seasons, it’s still fall here… until about mid-Jan when winter hits. Then spring starts mid-Feb, lasts through June. Summer is July to Oct. In Nov fall comes around again.

And hard to see, but some wild parakeets are in the tree tops.

#photography #trees
Bright yellow, orange, and red leaves viewed from below tall trees against a clear blue sky.
December 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Winter iris bloom. I’m generally not a fan of purple with the exception of flowers. Purple flowers always work.

#bloomscrolling #iris #photography
#lookingforthebrightspots
Close up of an iris in bloom. Side view of petals which are a light purple shade.
December 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Tidepools during low tide of the king tide with the super cold moon.

#photography #california
#tidepools #lookingforthebrightspots
Sea grasses, kelp, and rocks exposed at low tide. Glow of the setting sun on the distant horizon beyond the Pacific. Close up of some little sea something that I can’t identify. But it’s pretty with soft turquoise and gray and white touches. Perhaps a closed up anemone? Looking across the rocky shore with a large starfish clinging to some rocks. The low tide exposed more than usual, and the setting sun creates a shimmery pastel glow on the water.
December 6, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Morning walk, also from yesterday but a little later, the fog burning away with the rising sun. Love the softness of it all.

#trees #photography
#lookingforthebrightspots
Two trees in a field with more trees and shrubs on the hill rising behind. Morning sunlight shines in from the left, creating visible rays filtered but the remnants of morning fog.
December 2, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Morning walk on a quiet Sunday. Church is where you find it.

#trees #oaktree #photography
#lookingforthebrightspots #california
The sun is a perfect orb glowing through the low morning fog. It’s just rising above the distant hills, though you can’t see them yet through the mist. A large old California Oak is perfectly silhouetted in the near distance, on a small rise, a little off to the right. A smaller tree is partially obscured by the fog over to the left. Wet green grasses fill the foreground.
November 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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Morning walk. May you have a peaceful weekend.

#photography #nature
#lookingforthebrightspots
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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From this morning’s walk. Always a sucker for water droplets.

#bloomscrolling #flowers
#photography #lookingforthebrightspots
Close up of narcissus flowers in bloom. The white blooms are in stark contrast to the dark green stems and leaves; water droplets hang off every edge.
November 29, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Morning hike on this holiday that for no good reason is still celebrated on a Thursday.

Grateful for the tall trees and quiet trails and a fine canine companion to enjoy them with.

May you have a beautiful day, however you spend it.

#trees #photography
#lookingforthebrightspots
Sun rays streaming through the branches of a tall California Oak that leans slightly over the trail ahead. Green grasses and hills with blue skies and some thin white clouds in the background.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Early morning mist. That is all.

#lookingforthebrightspots #mountains
#california #morningwalk
Gray misty fog settled down into the ground with bits of nearby hills showing through the blur. Foreground trees create dark silhouette across the bottom of the photo.
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Morning walk. Grateful for a sunny walk earlier this morning. This shot is passing by my favorite oak. She was glorious in the sunlight, as she usually is.

Peace to you all.

#trees #oaktrees #photography
#california #lookingforthebrightspots
Bright morning sun shines through the thick branches and green leaves of a tall California Oak Tree. Beneath the bottom branches is a glimpse of reeds and lake water, above bits of blue sky provide the background.
November 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Latest storm heading out. Happy for the rain we’ve gotten, over 8” in the past 8 days. Everything is turning green again… a good sign that maybe we can avoid winter wildfires this year. (FFS, please!)

Have a peaceful weekend, everyone.

#clouds #photography #california
#lookingforthebrightspots
Gray and white clouds rolling across the sky. Bright blue shiny through with a line of dark gray raining falling in the distance. Trees and hills silhouetted across the bottom.
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Morning walk. I’ve probably posted photos like this before and it’s highly likely I will again because how can I not? The morning fog is so perfectly calming.

Peace to you all.

#photography #lake #lookingforthebrightspots
Fog hangs low over the lake obscuring everything except the closest trees on a small island just ahead. The soft reflection in the water is a perfect mirror to the standing trees and all else is quiet grayness.
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Morning walk. Apparently I’m a sucker for raindrops on roses…

#bloomscrolling #roses #photography
#lookingforthebrightspots
B&W photo looking up at rain-soaked roses arched over and a gray cloudy sky behind them. The leaves and branches are silhouetted in sharp contrast to the clouds and large rain drops hang from them and from the rose petals.
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM