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 
Tiger lilies are one of John’s favorites. Yours are gorgeous.
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I like Tiger Lilies as they are so hardy … they take a lickin’ and keep on tickin’ like the Timex commercial says. I wish I could claim them as my own Tiger Lilies, but they are from the Blumrosen Memorial Rose Garden at Memorial Park. It is tended by volunteers and there are four raised garden beds with mixed perennials. At one time, there were mostly roses planted in honor of Mrs. Ruth Blumrosen who was President of the Detroit Rose Society for almost 40 years. I remember when it was only roses … it was just gorgeous. I keep bopping over there, hoping for butterfly shot on the Lantana, but no such luck.
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The raised flower beds must be lovely, even if roses would be more elegant.
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Yes, I think it is a good idea – I’ve seen photos of raised beds, but never saw it implemented. At least the bunnies can’t chomp on them!
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Beautiful photos of beautiful flowers. I sigh here because we can’t grow them. The deer eat them like candy.
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Thanks Ally -at least the rabbits can’t reach them as they’re too tall. Rabbits used to eat all my low-growing perennials. These are from a garden planted and maintained by volunteers.
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Wow – such vibrant colors – you captured their beauty well!
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Thanks Shelley, they sure are bright, like neon signs in the garden!
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I’m impressed with the varieties you can see in them. One of my friends had a dark scarlet with white tips version. Enjoy the beauty you see – it’ll all be white before we know it. 😉
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Yes, they were quite spectacular and I thought more salmon-colored than orange. They are in this volunteer garden and I went over there and the clouds rolled in, but took pictures anyway When I saw them, I figured they weren’t too vibrant, so returned. They are dependent on Mother Nature for the rain, so they’ve been lucky this year. Yep, snow is coming and yesterday the one meteorologist said that it’s looking like a La Nina Winter (lots of precip), BUT, we had a La Nina Winter predicted last year and it didn’t happen. Winter – ugh!
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Overcast in the brighter parts of the day provide for more clear photos. It’s amazing how resilient flowers can be. And us humans too – we keep persevering through the winters (or move LOL!) We’ve got fall to look forward to!
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You and I love Fall … the sweatshirts, a chill in the air, the leaves, even the smells – the whole season is magical to us. I am ready for Fall – we have more severe weather tomorrow afternoon and I’m so done with Summer and its volatile weather this year. As a “weather worrier” I’m sure I’ve lost a year off my life from the Summer of 2021.
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Hang on to the hope for a beautiful fall! 😉
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Summer in full bloom — so beautiful and sunny!
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We’ll gaze at these photos of beautiful flowers in mid-Winter and long for Summer’s sunny and warm days (as intolerable as they seem now).
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they roar with beauty
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Very clever Wayne – (wish I’d thought of that line). They are beautiful and in a volunteer garden. I can’t claim them as my own unfortunately.
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Beautiful! I can remember “painting” our faces with tiger lily dust when we were kids. Thanks for bringing back a great memory. 🙂
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Thanks Laurie – now that sounds fun because I see a lot of colorful dust inside these lilies. Aah, to be a kid again.
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Miss Linda………………………………….Welcome to Old Age and New birth………………and life goes on!
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They sure are beautiful aren’t they Ann Marie? The flowers and Summer are at their peak, then soon we creep toward Winter.
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Hi Linda – this Lily sure made for a wonderful cheery post! Ornage really does have a warmth and the Blumrosen Memorial garden seems like they have some great gardeners – 🙂
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You’re right Yvette – the bright-orange Tiger Lilies sure brighten up this garden which is tended to by volunteers. There are four raised garden beds. Originally it was just two garden beds, just roses, planted to honor a late Lincoln Park resident, Mrs. Ruth Blumrosen, who was head of the Detroit Rose Society for four decades. [You know, it’s funny … I said I would bypass the sunflower growing project this year as we were in moderate drought status and expected to remain so the entire Summer. Now, the rain won’t stop, with rain, often torrential, since mid-June. We’ve had 15+ inches of rain, from June 15th to July 15th and had rain several days this week and are expecting storms, possibly severe, later today. Those sunflowers would have rivaled Jack’s beanstalk by now had I planted those seeds/a plant!]
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So pretty and one of my favorites!
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They perk up any garden!
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