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Beth in CA
@bjerz.bsky.social
Nature photographer, reader of mysteries, gardener, mom & grandma. Also f**k Trumpty Dumpty
A very good book year, with 51 books read and 17 each that I gave five or four stars. Some truly great books!
#booksky #books #reading #greatbooks #funbooks #mostlymysteries #mysteries
December 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
My 4-yr old grandson at work creating holiday masterpieces
#cookies #holidaytraditions #grandkids #littleartist
December 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
For #FlowersonFriday, the tiny delicate Lacy Phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia), a native California wildflower that was abloom in my native plant garden this summer.
#nature #wildflowers #native #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #naturephotography #photography
December 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
#ladybeetles are back! Swarming or "converging" in our local parks. Love me some #ladybugs!
#beetles #insects #nature #naturephotography #tiny #macro
December 19, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Fog on foothills of Mt. Diablo in northern California. We have been experiencing "Tule fog," that spreads from miles away in the Central Valley, for weeks now and look forward to the sun shining again. #fog #nature #naturephotography #photography #tulefog
December 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
For #MushroomMonday
Golden Milkcap (Lactarious alnicola) mushrooms the size of my hand found in Mitchell Canyon of Mt. Diablo State Park in northern California #nature #naturephotography #mushrooms
December 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Look closely and you can see fairies dancing among the dew-topped grass in this tiny alcove of my favorite forest. ✨
#fairies #dancing #dewtopped #forest
December 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A beautiful and restful hike through Mitchell Canyon of Mt. Diablo State Park in northern California with dear friends
#nature #forests #nativeplants #wilderness #photography #naturephotography #hiking
December 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Pacific Ocean pebbles at a Sea Ranch beach in Northern California for #RockinTuesday #pebbles #rocks #naturephotography #nature
December 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
For #roseMonday, Our Lady of Guadalupe, my favorite and most fragrant rose
#Roses #flowers #FlowerReport #bloomsky #bloomscrolling #nature #naturephotography #photography #macrophotography 📷🌱🌸
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is your December reminder that it's absolutely acceptable to try and get to a set annual book goal by cramming in as many novellas and cookbooks as you can find before Christmas swallows you up! #booksky 💙📚
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This Thanksgiving I am so grateful for my children and grandchildren #thanksgiving #thankful #kids #grandkids
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
For #twoforTuesday, white/pink Bachelor's Buttons amid the usual blue buttons from my back garden this summer
#flowers #bloomscrolling #gardens #nature #naturephotography #photography #bloomsky #flowersky
November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
November 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
November 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
For a very late #forestFriday, here is the forest floor now that it has rained in northern California. Most of the plants are invasive but there is one native, a Pacific Snakeroot (the darker leafed plant in the center-left). #forestfloor #nativeplants #nature #naturephotography #photography
November 22, 2025 at 6:28 AM
For #yellowThurs, here is my grandson as a #bee 🐝
#grandkids #happiness
November 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
For #nationaltakeahikeday I hiked Pine Canyon in a local regional park, northern California. A bit muddy from the recent rains, but now bursting with tiny green shoots. Unlike everywhere else, our plant life awakes in the winter. #nature #naturephotography #forest #trees #nativeplants
November 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
For #thicktrunkTuesday, here is an ancient Buckeye tree trunk from Pine Canyon in Castle Rock Regional Park in Walnut Creek, northern California
#nativeplants #buckeye #naturephotography
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Extra exciting Turkey Day
November 18, 2025 at 2:35 AM
For #MagentaMonday, a Farewell-to-Spring blossom with a Furrow bee amid rain droplets

#nativeplants #garden #bees #blossoms #bloomscrolling #flowers #raindrops #insects #naturephotography #photography
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We took my grandson to the park, where he found the motherlode of poofy dandelions and wanted to pick then blow on them all.
#dandelions #funinthepark #kids
November 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM