#Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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Linda Schaub
- “Spring is sprung. The grass is riz. I wonder where the birdies is?” ~ Anonymous
- Bewildered and bedraggled Snowdrops. Angry Robin bemoaning frozen worms. #Wordless Wednesday #Weary from Winter #3 years of Wordless Wednesdays for me!
- Ahh – Spring arrives today!
- Why a Duck? Why not a Seagull? #Wordless Wednesday #Marx (Bros.) Madness!
- Humbug Marsh was hummin’, not humdrum on this trek.
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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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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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WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
That green head is so shiny. Great photos as usual. Happy Wednesday
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Yes, it almost glows in the dark! They are beautiful ducks … soon they will lose their feathers and look a little mottled looking. Glad you liked the photos. Back at you!
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Miss Linda……………………………..you are so creative in story telling even with just your photos…………..and thank you for taking the time to wait for Mr. Mallard to take his bath!
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Thank you Ann Marie … Mr. Mallard looked so happy after he had his morning bath and seemed to sparkle in the sun.
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Looks like a pretty day for Mr. Duck to preen. Nice photos, Linda!
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Thanks Rebecca. It was a pretty and sunshiny day Rebecca … chilly too, but he didn’t seem to care as he plunged, then preened.
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Oh, that head! I am green with envy. (Well, i wish i was green with envy.)
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Ha ha – well, that drake is looking pretty pleased with himself isn’t he? That colorful head looks like it glows in the dark!
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Such clear photos Linda……you must have had the zoom on! It’s such an interesting shade of green.
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Thank you Joni – yes I did have the big camera with the long lens and this was at Heritage Park about a month ago. I watched the bath routine and the follow-up preen. I thought this Mallard looked pleased with its appearance, even gazing at its reflection in the water.
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Ha! Actually I was going to add that exactly – he did looked quite pleased with himself! Preening about his greening head dress!
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Yes, the “smile” and I swear it was/is a smile in that picture. In the next month, they’ll start moulting and have bare spots all over and look very mottled looking. I saw some large goose feathers at the Park this morning so soon the geese will be moving to another venue as they can’t fly, so they go by the Creek down to the Detroit River until their flight feathers grow back.
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That last picture looks like he was posing just for you. 🙂 Hope you had a great Wednesday and Happy Thursday Linda!
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I think that Mallard thought he looked good and did that pose. I thought he looked like he was grinning in that header photo (I know it was not just my imagination.) 🙂
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What a handsome charmer you found! Nice photos, Linda!
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Thanks Shelley – I think he liked what he saw when he saw his reflection in the water and was grinning. 🙂
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“Ablution”… I learned a new word today – thanks!
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You’re welcome Dave. My boss used to say that word when he came into work in the morning: “I’ve had my morning ablution and am ready to take on the day.” I think I mentioned he’s a wordsmith and loves to use sometimes odd or archaic words. [I am very behind in Reader and I know I am two behind with your Thursday posts – we had a computer malfunction with our e-mail at work and lost data and our ability to use e-mail for over a week and are still recovering. It necessitated some weekend time and evening time for me, so I’m eight days behind, but will catch up eventually.]
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Ha! A guy has to look well-groomed. You caught him in the act.
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He was getting all spiffed up for Saturday night date night. He reminded me of cowboys, like in the mini-series “Lonesome Dove” (and I also read and enjoyed the book immensely). On Saturday night the cowboys had a bath in one of those tubs with the claw feet and then went to town to look for ladies. My grandmother had one of those bathtubs. I’m going to write about it one time – her one indulgence while she was working, was lavender bath salts when she got home from work. I liked that tub though it took up 3/4s of the bathroom.
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Don’t you just love their colors? Beautiful pictures Linda!
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Yes, I love that iridescent head and neck Diane – on a sunny day, you can spot them from far away!
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your picture taking is improving Linda!
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Thank you Wayne! This Mallard was getting all spiffed up and he was preening and would open and shut his eyes and looked once at his reflection in the water and I laughed when it appeared he was grinning. “Pickin’ and grinnin'” was a line used on a TV show called “Hee Haw” when the main characters played their guitars and cracked jokes.
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that was Roy Clark! I use to watch that show! It seems so corny now!
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I watched it too – my dad’s favorite show. I was going to mention Roy Clark and Buck Owens but figured you might not be familiar with the show or country music. They had a segment called “Pickin’ and Grinnin'” … roy Clark would say “I’m pickin” and Buck Owens would say “I’m grinnin’.”
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Of course I watched it! You forget back than there wasn’t much to watch!
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Yes, it was on a Saturday night as I recall. I just thought of that show a few weeks ago – there are lots of crows in the neighborhood flying overhead and they always had crow sounds in the background.
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I didn’t realize this but it kept going until Dec 27,1997!
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Wow – neither did I! I’d have thought late 80s if I would have taken a guess. It was the country version of Laugh-In.
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Rowan and Martin did “Laugh In” first and then “Hee Haw” for the rural people!
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I have to admit I liked “Hee Haw” better than “Laugh In”. I liked the Gladys and the old man on the park bench the best on “Laugh In”.
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Just like I MUST moo when I see cows, I am equally compelled to quack when I see ducks. This handsome fella had me quacking 🙂
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Well Janis – you quacked me up with that comment. He was getting spiffed up and kept checking out his reflection in the water. 🙂
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