Overdressed!

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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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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