Michigan weather this week is definitely bi-polar. Monday at 8:00 a.m. when I went outside to take the blanket off my Dwarf Japanese Weeping Maple it was a frosty 32 degrees. Teeth chattering and hands freezing, I went back to don a coat on top of my sweat suit and sweatshirt cardigan and grab a pair of gloves. A mere 48 hours later, I embarked on today’s walk wearing a lightweight sweat suit with a tank top underneath, thinking that even at 65 degrees I might be chilly. Two blocks into the walk, I removed the sweatshirt and wrapped it around my waist and walked in a tank top and I still was warmish! I wished I had shorts on. I could not help but think that the two nearly life-sized Michelangelo’s David statues on Emmons Street were more appropriately dressed for this hot and humid morn than me. Actually, I believe one statue is the famous David statue and the other looks to be a knock-off … an imposter, of all things and he is striking a reverse pose. I’ve never strayed to the opposite side of the street to peruse the statuary up close; I’m afraid someone might think I was a kook or a voyeur. Nonetheless, two anatomically correct statues are coyly glancing at one another from opposite ends of the homeowner’s porch. Really people?!?! Wouldn’t a concrete goose adorned with current-holiday duds be more appropriate? Just sayin’. At any rate, I did my walk to “The Dot” which was 2 ¼ miles round-trip on what felt like a mid-July morning. A lot of dandelions have gone to seed and the brisk wind was whipping around, whisking fragile blossoms right off flowering trees like crabapple, cherry, apple, dogwood and magnolia, just cutting their picturesque blooming time and beauty in half. The past few days even wreaked havoc on the durable tulips scattering their petals to the wind as well.
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FIFTY FAVORITE PARK PHOTOS
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- Parker noshin’ nuts
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Black Squirrel
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- Parker, my Park cutie!
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- Pekin Duck
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- Mallard Hybrid Duck
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- Midnight munchin’ nuts
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- Mute Swan
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- Goslings
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- Mama Robin
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- Seagulls on ice floe
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Parker chowin’ down
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- Mallard Duck
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- Northern Cardinal
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- Great Blue Heron (“Harry”) fishing for shad
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- Parker: shameless begging
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- Viceroy Butterfly
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- Great Blue Heron
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- American Goldfinch
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- Seagull
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- Robin baby (not fledged yet)
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Robins almost ready to fledge
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- Parker angling for peanuts
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- Robin fledgling
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- Parker making a point that he wants peanuts
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- Parker smells peanuts
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- Parker with a peanut
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Seagull
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- Red-Bellied Woodpecker
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- Pekin Duck
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- Starling
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- Canada Geese family
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- Canada Goose and goslings
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- Red-Winged Blackbird
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- Parker says candy is dandy.
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- Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly
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- American Goldfinch
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- Hunny Bunny
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- Parker looking for peanuts
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- The pier just past sunrise
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- Mute Swan
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- Parker in the snow
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- Parker and a treat
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- Great Blue Heron
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- Me and my shadow (a/k/a Parker)
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- Fox Squirrel
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- Seagull
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- Canada Goose
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- Mallard Ducks
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- Mute Swan
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- Fox Squirrel – Parker
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- Northern Cardinal
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