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 
Kudos for your patience …
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And coming away unscathed by stings when hanging out so closely with them! 🙂
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I’ve never actually looked at bee’s knees before! Amazing!
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Glad you liked them Anne – they are fuzzy aren’t they? 🙂
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Fuzzy wuzzy was a…. Oh! Wrong critter!
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Amazing photos!
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Thanks Ruth! These bees were all at the Volunteer Garden tended to by the Green Team at Memorial Park. I think the purple flowers are Purple Loosestrife and the orange flowers are Lantana.
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Great photos! I’ve never had much luck capturing bees on camera… Well done!
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Thanks Barbara. I was lucky with these bees. We have a big garden at a nearby park that is tended to by the”Green Team” volunteers, a group of high school students who grow and sell flowers they grow in hothouses at the high school and have also planted a pollinator garden at this park. This is where I got the photos of the Monarch and Swallowtail earlier this Summer before you/I followed one another.
https://lindaschaubblog.net/2020/07/22/why-not-sit-and-sip-a-bit-wordless-wednesday-orangeade/
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These are beautiful photos!
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Thank you Sarah – I hate to see the Summer leave so no more beautiful blooms, bees and butterflies. This is a volunteer garden tended by high school students who call themselves “The Green Team” – I did a post about the butterflies over there earlier this Summer. The orange Lantana and Monarch butterfly were so vibrant. https://lindaschaubblog.net/2020/07/22/why-not-sit-and-sip-a-bit-wordless-wednesday-orangeade/
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Beautiful captures Linda!
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Thank you Sabine! This was all at one garden near my home. Now if the hummingbird(s) would just cooperate!
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To photograph hummingbirds I recommend bringing a chair, a freshly charged battery, lots of space on your memory card and patience! 😉
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Ha ha – well your photos of the hummingbird were just perfect in my opinion. I have to get out and just wait on the “arrival” in the morning and do nothing else – that will be next Summer. I have to have a good background and the house is small as is the garden and the chain-link fence is not a good background look. Many times I was putting out fresh sugar water and the hummingbird saw me and zoomed over while I was swapping out the feeders. She saw me take away the feeders and bring out new ones. I got four to be able to thoroughly clean two at a time. So the feeder was only gone a half-minute before I put the fresh one out. I know the old sugar water was not cloudy or old. So, of course she came over while I had stuff in my hands, or they were wet. 🙂
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Beautiful close-ups of bees and flowers, Linda! My bartending son just just made up a fancy drink that he called Bees Knees. I haven’t tried it yet.
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Thank you Laurie. I believe that is purple Loosestrife and I know it is orange Lantana – loved by both the bees and the butterflies in this volunteer garden. Well that’s a fun drink title … I wonder if it is sweet like honey or yellow and a dark color like a bee that prompted the name? I struggled on whether to put quotes around Bee’s Knees or not in the title – not everyone knows that expression, but bees do have knees … fuzzy ones!
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Beautiful photos Linda, I just got to your site this evening. I loved seeing the bees on all the colorful flowers. 🙂
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Thanks Sandra – I am glad you liked them. I was able to get close up and hone in on those bees – they were so busy they didn’t even notice me! I believe the purple flower is Loosestrife and the I know the orange is Lantana (same flower as the butterflies shots). I was late getting here to WP tonight and am two days behind in Reader. The weekend chores put me behind and I’m still trying to catch up.
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Miss Linda……………………………you are so clever……………………….how did you come up with the title: “bee’s knees and bumblebee butts”???…………………………I am enjoying your keen vision!
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Hi Ann Marie – I always liked that old expression about being “the bee’s knees” if someone or something was special, so I had those close-ups of the bees and thought it would be fun to write “the bee’s knees” and I discovered a few bumblebee butts when I got home and reviewed the pictures – so a title was created! I am glad you are enjoying these fun posts.
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I think when you retire you should become a photographer! Linda these are amazing pictures!
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Thank you Diane! I was lucky that the bees were so busy in the flowers that they didn’t notice me – it was like the butterfly pictures on those orange Lantana – I was standing right there and it didn’t faze the butterflies in the least!
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Terrific photos Linda. Thank you sharing them.
Have a great day!
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Thank you Matti – glad you liked them. There is an expression here called “the bee’s knees” meaning an admired thing (as in person, item) … it is an older expression that you don’t see/hear anymore. I assume bees have knees though. You enjoy your Friday Matti.
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Fantastic photography. I am envious of your skill. Simply wonderful.
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Thank you very much Ron – I appreciate the comments. I was lucky that I was so close to these bees and they were so engrossed in feeding they never paid any attention to me at all.
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Beautiful bees photo! Thank you for the sharing 🙂
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Thank you Erwin – they were so busy sipping nectar that they didn’t notice I was so close to them. Lucky for me!
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Lovely photos, as always.
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Thank you JP – Summer and bees and blossoms have become a distant memory with the cold spell that has quickly settled in!
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