Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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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BADGES
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- 02-02-2018
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- 03-13-2018
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- 03-25-2018
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- 03-26-2018
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- Year #6!! 02/2019
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- 04-13-2019
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- 11-21-19
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Linda Schaub
WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
You’ve shared this picture before, right? And then he climbs up your leg.
Cool picture for national walking today. It’s a good thing I walked a bit!
Love, light and glitter
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You are right Eliza. I had a picture of my shoes I took yesterday – took them off as I wanted them to look worn and old but the picture wasn’t good, so I used this one I have indeed used before and another of my cutie pie Parker. Love, light and glitter back at you!
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National Walking Day is today? This is for realies, not an April Fool’s Day joke? ‘Cuz today I’m being super cautious about believing anything. You understand.
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Nah, I wouldn’t kid a girl … 🙂 Have a look:
https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/56504789/posts/2646544400
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Welp, I’ll be. What a great day it is to celebrate a great day.
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It’s the earliest I remember it – it’s the first Wednesday in April. Some years you could still have snow.
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Wow! You are really putting the miles in. Way to go, Linda. You are going to crush your last year’s totals.
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That’s what I was thinking. Very impressive.
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Thanks Ruth – I’m weighing whether to continue to walk during the next two weeks for this peak time of the virus – they encourage getting outside to exercise, yet I heard Mike Shaw, the MSP Lieutenant on WWJ today and he said “no joyriding on motorcycles or cars, just essential travel” – made me stop and think even though they encourage going to parks, they have said this. I have other parks around me, but they are without the nature setting and no paths. Will dwell on it some more. You sew as do your sisters, but look at this mask without sewing anything:
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I do think wearing some kind of face covering is a good idea. Even if it doesn’t stop what we might be breathing in it can remind us not to touch our face which is a bad habit that we often do without thinking.
Even if you don’t go walking I think it’s still important to get outside especially when the sun is shining. (But that’s just my opinion.) I am so glad we have the farm to go to and it is essential that we do so. The chickens must be cared for and growing our own food seems more important than ever.
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I’ve always been careful during Winter and flu season so just a little more diligent now. I brought home a bad cold years ago and my mom got it and had a mild case of pneumonia. It was Winter and she could not get out in the ice/snow due to mobility problems – by the time she got to the doctor, it was a mild case, but very scary so I started being extra diligent – that was 20 years ago. I don’t know if people will “mask-up” at the Park. I’ve seen two people doing it – one works in a healthcare field – she wears scrubs while walking – don’t know what she does fir a kuvubg. We don’t do any more than say “hello” – she does not walk in the cold months – she wore a bandana the other day, but like a cowboy would do, not this way. Yes, the sunshine is important for us all and to stay healthy. I’ve got some parks without paths where I can bulk up my miles if the Park may be closed down or something else. You are lucky that you are so self-contained there, but then you are always prepared for power outages and can easily handle that emergency. Stay safe Ruth.
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Thanks Laurie – I am hopeful to do just that. We had a very mild Winter for Michigan (contrary to what they predicted) and I got out more than I thought I would. Last weekend was abysmal – no miles walked between the heavy rain and the high winds. It would be a shame if the Coronavirus puts a cramp in walking after such a good start.
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Miss Linda…………………………………………cute picture of Mr. Parker and his long skinny shadow and your shoe on National Walking Day…………………………………….I couldn’t walk today on National Walking Day………………..Boo….Hoo
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Thanks Ann Marie. I took a photo of my walking shoes to show how worn they looked but took them in the cellarway and the linoleum is a red-brick look and cast a pink glow on the shoes so I went with these. Parker was cute, so I had to include him here. I hope you can get out tomorrow and Friday mornings as it will be nicer and even sunny.
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That’s an a amazing distance Linda! You rock!❤️
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Thanks Diane – I hope to continue my daily walks at the Park if we are still permitted to go outside … and Mother Nature cooperates as well,. I am looking forward to watching Spring unfold and seeing all the feathered babies. 🙂
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Awesome job Linda, I did not know there was a national walking day. I did walk yesterday to celebrate. 🙂
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Thanks Sandra – this was because we had a fairly mild Winter so I was able to get out more, especially on weekends when I try to get 5-6 miles in each weekend day in good weather, so I could do that amount all Winter. There have been years where I had to essentially start from scratch in late March/early April to build up my daily miles again as I’d barely walked all Winter. Only the ice stopped me this Winter as very little snow. I hope to continue this pace, unless we are forced to stay inside – so far we can still go out to walk/run/hike and bike – they are discouraging taking a car ride except for essential trips, so I wonder if that will stop people from venturing to parks that are in more rural areas? Sandra – I would stay in Iowa as long as you can – Michigan is now third in the nation for Coronavirus cases … stay put as long as you can. I’m glad you celebrated too – I’ll remind you when it is National Hiking Day.
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Yes remind me, you know all the national days. I have not heard of most of them. 🙂
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I actually follow “National Calendar” here on WordPress and get the e-mail the night before – but somewhere I have seen fun holidays like that a month in advance like this one which mixes interesting with offbeat:
http://www.holidayscalendar.com/categories/weird/
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Those are so funny, fruit cake toss day. I have not seen a fruit cake since my Mother used to make them. 🙂
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Yes, some of the “holidays” are a little goofy, but people have always poked fun at poor fruitcake. I did a post on fruitcake, a rather poignant post about my mom’s last fruitcake … I still have this small fruitcake in the fridge but I need to throw it away since I’ve lost power and it is not good, but it’s got a clear wrapper and is not bad, as in moldy, etc.
https://lindaschaubblog.net/2014/12/27/when-fruitcake-isnt-funny/
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What a wonderful post Linda, I wrote on that post about the one thing my Mother always did. A comedian on You Tube was talking about it, so funny but true. https://youtu.be/0Swzvm-gXHg
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I just read your comment and then I watched this video – thanks for sending it to me; now this was funny and so true. Yes, I told you we had the little Pepperidge Farm cake – I remember the Sara Lee coffeecake with the crumbles on top too. And yes, no one touched it – it was for company.
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How is Parker these days???
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I finally saw Parker today Joni. I drove to the Park today to give the car a small run. I shut the car door and he saw me and came running over. He was foraging near the parking lot. I was happy to see him. The longer time went by and with the Cooper’s Hawks above, I was getting very worried about him.
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Are the Cooper Hawks only a problem in the springtime, or are they there year round?
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No, they are around year around and this past Winter, I was driving and one swooped down from a tree as I passed under it – it barely missed the windshield with a big wing – I was sure it was going to come crashing through. We have them in the neighborhood, sitting up high, even teaching their young how to “hunt” prey like mice and small birds … yes, even squirrels.
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short in stature but long in shadow!
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Yes, I love the long shadows you get sometimes. I’ve done some fun long shadows of me as I’m 5′ 9″ and the photo does not get my feet in the picture.
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it would If you used a shorter focal length.
A wide angle lens should be able to do that.
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I had the small camera that day too – I don’t have a wide angle lens for the DSLR, just the lenses that came with the kit ( 18-55mm and 75-300mm).
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18 is still too long because you have a crop camera. The actual focal length would probably be around 28mm?
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Great photo of Parker! It looks like he’s smiling.
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Glad you liked it Esther … he has a personality all his own. 🙂
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He’s a ham! Loves his picture taken. 🙂
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Yes, he is a cute (and sometimes spoiled) little squirrel. After I lost my last canary, I said no more pets are coming into this house – the loss is too great, so I kind of adopted these squirrels. 🙂
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Losing a pet is hard! They become part of your family and when you see them sick, that’s heartbreaking.
Sorry to hear about your canary. 😦 My brother in law’s family has 3 canaries and 1 flew away. Kids were devastated. They still have the other 2 and are still healthy.
The squirrels are very grateful for their adoption!!
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Yes, I won’t have more pets – too much heartache involved, though when they are there with you, they have so much to contribute to the family, but it’s unbearable when it comes time to say goodbye.
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