Feeling glum on this gloomy morning.

06-24-14

A quick glance at the sky confirms that more rain is on the way. I sure wouldn’t want Mother Nature’s water bill these days. I just took a short stroll … got up later expecting to see and hear torrential rains and rockin’ and rollin’ thunderstorms respectively, but our Tuesday weather, thus far, has been tame. The threatened severe weather did not materialize last night and the only booms and lightshow in the sky were the result of the fireworks on the Detroit River. Last night I was working on a document for work and finished up at 10:00 p.m. so I hopped on Click on Detroit to watch the extravaganza with the “sunshine” theme. Wow!! I enjoyed the fireworks immensely, but I still think I’ll watch them from afar on my computer screen rather than in person. I took this picture at Bishop Park early on Sunday morning. It was overcast from the recent rain and dark gray streaks were still prevalent in the sky. Well, I’m no Ansel Adams, but I thought it would be fun to tweak the picture to a black-and-white format to really highlight that angry-looking sky hovering over the trees with the pier in the foreground. I’ll close this post by this awesome quote by the aforementioned B&W photographer Adams: “Sometimes I arrive just when God’s ready to have someone click the shutter.”

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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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