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Holger Seidl

@7and7.bsky.social
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Born/raised in Hamburg, Germany 🇩🇪 living in California 🇺🇸 since 1973, married, 2 daughters. Lifelong Democrat, retired from Porsche and Mercedes Benz. Like travel and gardening. Photography since 1967. No DM please, no maga !💙💙💙

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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Two, maybe even three, very similar looking thunderclouds are lining up for a #CloudScape or #StormScape through this afternoon. A very nice, and ever changing #Scape to capture our attention on this early autumn afternoon 😍🙏!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#Thunderstorm #Cloud #Photography Two hurricanes, Odalys and Polo, are currently churning off the Mexican west coast and slinging tropical moisture into California! This is causing thunderstorms to build up over our local mountains and desert, giving us beautiful skies and sunsets to enjoy 😍🙏!
A palm tree is framing a massive, but beautiful thunderstorm.
The cloud is above the Fallbrook and San Luis Rey river valley, with Mount Palomar in the background.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#MorningFog #Autumn #SoCal #Photography Appropriate for the first day of autumn, a light fog was greeting me as I was walking the dogs around the backyard this morning.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This gorgeous day in #MonumentValley is a good fit for #BlueSkyMonday ! And if the mittens qualify as mountains… then let’s go with #MountainMonday as well 🤗 #Photography #Travel
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#Stunday #OrangeSunday #Backyard #Photography Nothing exiting happened all weekend. Just took advantage of a break in the hot weather to fix some things around here. But then, sunday evening came, with this gorgeous sunset to reward me for my hard work 😓! Have a great week y’all!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#Travel #QueenMary #MainDeck1930 #ArtDeco #Photography So glad this ship is still available for all of us to enjoy… A stay on this ship/hotel is like the closest thing to time travel!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#Clouds #Rain #Mountains #Photography #SoCal Clouds and rainfall over San Diego county, in this view from the mountains toward the pacific ocean! We’re all hoping that this is an early indication of ample rainfall with the promise of a strong El Niño coming our way 🙏 My daughter took this photo 😍
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#Travel #Bavaria #Photography A few years ago, i took my daughters, age 18/21, on a trip to Germany to visit relatives in their ancestral home and celebrate my mom’s 90th birthday. We had lunch at the famous Hofbräuhaus in Munich, where my 18 year old took full advantage of the local drinking age!
Interior of the Hofbräuhaus, an arched, ornate ceiling with light fixtures hanging from chains above a room with multiple tables occupied by guests, enjoying a variety of traditional dishes.
On the left is a group of musicians in traditional clothing, and playing traditional bavarian pub music.Two young women at a table, smiling and holding large glasses of Hofbräuhaus beer.
The younger of them, not nearly old enough to order a beer in her home state of california, quickly learned her favorite german phrase… 'ein großes dunkles weißbier bitte'!
(a large dark wheat beer please)
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#Stunday #MorningFog #Bloom #Bougainvilla #Photography The morning fog is lifting, revealing a stunning blue sky above plants in their summer splendor!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
#SmallBirdSaturday #Oriole #BackyardBirds #Photography Oriole season has ended… now i’m looking forward to seeing them again next March! Here is a young male Oriole vocalizing his claim to be next at the jelly bowl!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#Mississippi #DiveBar #Blues #Photography #Travel I love a good dive bar! Maybe come back later and check it out. Looks like they have good A/C! Club Vegas, Clarksdale, Mississippi.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#Elk #Arizona #Payson #Photography A bull Elk, resting this morning in the backyard of my sister in law, in Payson, Arizona. This is right in town and not at all unusual! SIL took this photo.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#Autumn #Persimmon #BackYardFruit #Photography Early September, and my very first ripe persimmon of the season! For sure now, fall is just around the corner. It’s going to be a good season for persimmon, so much fruit on the trees that several branches have broken 😱
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#Sunset #SoCal #MountainMonday #Photography Our warm and humid weather sure makes for some pretty clouds yesterday and today! Sunset over the Fallbrook valley, prominently featuring our water tank, and on the center right is Mt San Jacinto.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#Stunday #Stormy #SoCal #BackyardSunset #Photography The first rain since March is falling here in San Diego county. And yet, we were able to enjoy a beautiful sunset! A warm and damp evening on the patio, so nice when that happens here in late summer 😍🙏💙!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#Stunday #StormyWeather #SoCalRain #Photography Blue skies made room for dark clouds here in SoCal! Ominous looking, but really warm and humid… maybe an early sign of El Niño? The view is over my neighbors roof, showing all of Mount Palomar and a big sky in San Diego County!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#Sunrise #Bloom #Morning #Photography A cactus blossom has opened up overnight, and it is cheerfully greeting the morning sun on this saturday!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#Scape #Sunset #SoCal #Photography Checking out tonight and wishing y’all a fantastic friday night, and a great holiday weekend ahead! Four pictures of the evening sky, here in San Diego’s north county 👋🙏!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
#WileECoyote #ACME #Movie #Travel #Photography Having just watched the Coyote vs ACME movie reminded me of how long I’ve been a fan of Wile E! Here I am, in 1997, visiting Bavaria, wearing my official WB T-shirt with Wile E Coyote embroidered on the pocket… upside down, of course! Super Genius!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Don Francisco Avila’s boots and saddle are waiting for their owner to come ride again. Don Francisco built the Avila Adobe in 1818, now the oldest standing residence in Los Angeles on Olvera Street. #B&W #Travel #Adobe #LosAngeles #Photography
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#Scape #ForestFriday #BackRoads #Travel #Photography Not done yet… just taking a break in the shade. A hard working truck, next to an old barn in Mendocino County, California.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#ForestFriday #Scape #Adventure #Redwood #Photography The road ahead gets narrow as it twists its way through the giant coastal redwood forest on the way to find the lost coast region of California.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#Scape #Travel #Photography California gold! A vineyard, in the midst of golden grassland. Mendocino County, California.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
#Sunset #GoldenHour #SoCal #ValleyView #Photography A backyard view toward the southeast of San Diego County. The soft pink glow is typical for this time of year. Clouds behind our mountains are bringing monsoon rains to our local desert, and hopefully soon, a little rain will be falling here too 🙏
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#Gardening #Melons #OrganicProduce #Photography Not only does gardening provide a certain calming, therapeutic effect, it also provides fabulous produce! My tomatoes were a bust this year, but squash and melons 🍈 are doing great! Another week or so for these beauties 😍🙏👏
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#Roadrunner #Travel #Photography #MonumentValley A roadrunner just passed me… so I pulled over, and now I’m waiting for #WileECoyote to come by on some crazy fast #ACME device!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#Travel #MoabUtah #Jeep #Photography #Adventure Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel. Let it roll, baby roll… The Doors. And hope no one comes the other way 😱!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
#Scape #Promenade #Photography Waiting for a harbor cruise, Long Beach, California.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#UrbanGaze #Sunset #Photography #Travel Enjoying the sunset and a glass of wine 🍷 from the sundeck of the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#ThickTrunkThursday #UrbanGaze #LosAngeles #Photography A old ficus tree at the Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument, where Californio settlers started a small Pueblo by a small river, that became the city of Los Angeles.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#UrbanGaze #Cantina #Photography A cantina and a cevicheria are in a shared building on Olvera Street in downtown Los Angeles, California.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#HumansOfBlueSky #ObservationBar #QueenMary #Photography Enjoying a beverage at the Art Deco Observation Bar on the Queen Mary. A signature cocktail 🍹 is the Grey Ghost, named after the ship’s name during WWII service as a troop carrier.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#HumansOfBlueSky #LongBeach #BlueWhale #Photography People moving about under a blue whale with calf at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#BlueSkyMonday #Harbor #QueenMary #LongBeach #Travel #Photography Blue sky, blue water, the majestic ship/hotel Queen Mary on the horizon, as we approach on the Long Beach harbor cruise boat, Christina. This was a great way to escape the summer heat!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#Travel #History #SoCal #Photography We booked a 3-day cruise on the permanently anchored Queen Mary. The ship has been operated as a historic hotel for about 50 years. Today we ventured to Olvera Street in downtown Los Angeles. Here, in 1781, settlers started the Pueblo De Los Angeles… LA now!
A photo looking down Olvera Street, buildings on one side and the center is filled with colorful market stands.
Here is where 44 settlers started Pueblo De Los Angeles in 1781.
The original name was ‘ El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula ‘ now known as Los Angeles or simply LA!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#Travel #HotSummer #ColdBeer #Photography Some of my friends here will yawn at my old joke… what could be better than a cold Pacifico on a 100 degree day in Los Angeles? Two cold Pacificos 😂😍👍!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#Stunday #BonVoyage #QueenMary #LongBeach #Photography You can take a pretend vintage cruise that never leaves the port! A stay at the Hotel Queen Mary historic ocean liner will transport you back to the 1930s, with lots of Art Deco charm!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#Scape #QueenMary #HistoricShip #LongBeach #Photography On a cruise to nowhere. Just checked in for a 3 night stay on the historic, and very haunted Hotel Queen Mary. Built in 1930, it is eerily similar to the Titanic! It is fascinating to walk around and explore this living piece of history 😍!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#BirdOfTheDay #Bird #AwesomeOwl #Owl #Photography A owl box on my king palm was occupied by a little screech owl 🦉 for several years. He or she gave me a good stare when I came too close!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
#Utah #Moab #CanyonTrail #Jeep #Photography Can you spot our Jeep in this photo, a screenshot from a video that a Swiss visitor took of us? He kindly shared the video with us at the trailhead. This is the top of the #ShaferTrail , and our Jeep is pretty much in the very center of the picture!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#ThickTrunkTuesday #TreeNursery #Photography These trees struck me not so much for their thick trunks, but more for the huge containers they were in 😱! The price tag on these beauties was also pretty enormous!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#Sunset #SoCalClouds #SummerEvening #Scape #Photography I’m doing my part for dinner, grilling Italian Sausage. Couldn’t help noticing how nice the sky is looking, so I took some pictures to share a great Saturday night with everyone! Have nice weekend y’all 🤗🙏👋
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
#BloomScrolling #Cactus #SoCalGarden #Flower #Photography I noticed these blossoms, about to open in the evening. They delivered in a spectacular way less than 12 hours later with a full bloom greeting the morning sun 😍🙏
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#HumansOfBlueSky #NoKings #California #Photography In all my years, I have never seen so many people come out for some good trouble, to let our current ‘president’ know how much we don’t like him! No Kings, Oceanside, California.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#Sunset #EveningWalk #SoCal #Photography Sunset brought its magic, just over the crest of the hill on my evening walk 🙏
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
#MountainMonday #Travel #California #Photography It’s mountain monday friends! Here’s a nice mountain, it also has a pretty good waterfall ! And let’s not forget the fine River that flows through this pristine valley! #YosemiteFalls tumbling off the Three Brothers formation into the Merced River!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
#GreenSaturday #Travel #SoCal #EncinitasCa #TreeHouse #Photography This white bluff top house in Encinitas, California, blends perfectly with the morning fog along the beach. Two mature and perfectly trimmed trees, with vivid green foliage stand in contrast to the white and foggy background!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
#Travel #Autumn #SoCal #Photography A pumpkin patch, growing on a plot of rare open land in my former hometown, Encinitas, a beach town in San Diego County, California.
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#Travel #SoCal #HuntingtonGardens #Photography One of many outstanding features of the Huntington Library and Gardens in San Marino, California, is the Japanese garden. Truly an oasis of tranquility in a vast urban setting!
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Holger Seidl @7and7.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
#BloomScrolling #Blossom #Hibiscus #Backyard #Photography Wishing y’all a great Sunday evening and a wonderful week ahead with this double header of white hibiscus 🌺!
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