The SoCal Spotlight - Week 53
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Welcome to week 53 of the SoCal Spotlight!
Each week the SoCal Spotlight highlights five of the awesome posts from #socalsteemit! So, lets dive on in and see what kind of cool stuff the SoCal Steemians have been posting about this week!
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First up this week we welcome back @wfmkay who tells us about the life of a Steemit photographers wife!
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Next we get the other side of the story from the "Steemit photographer" himself @kunschj who captured a great photo of some blooming California Poppies!
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Keeping on the flowers theme here we have @alaqrab who shares some really neat photos of the hard working bees feeding on some Lavender flowers!
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Next up we have a video by @derekrichardson where he shows us some tips and techniques for gold panning!
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In our final post this week @creationofcare takes us out to the seven Oaks dam to check out the incredible amount of water that has built up in the reservoir this year!
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And that's gonna do it for week 53 of the SoCal Spotlight! All featured posts have received full 100% upvotes and have been resteemed by @socalsteemit. If you enjoyed these posts please give them an upvote and be sure to check out ALL the awesome posts at #socalsteemit!!
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SoCal Steemit Weekly Voice Chat
Hey SoCal Steemit members, tuesdays (tonight) at 8pm we will be having our 'SoCal Weekly Chat' in the voice chat channel in our Discord server. So come say hi and have some fun chatting with your fellow SoCal Steemians!
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The owner of this cabin discovered a mine that produced over $100,000 worth of gold.
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Thank you for featuring my post 😃
Glad to see you back on Steemit @wfmkay! I look forward to seeing more of your great surf photos!