#Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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Linda Schaub
- Who is that masked man, er … raccoon? #Wordless Wednesday #My new furry friend at the Park – NOT!
- “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!
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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 
So awesome photos , ships and beautiful ocean , so gorgeous place 👌🙏🌷😊
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It is a gorgeous place Thattamma and one of my favorite places to walk. This was quite a remarkable operation to watch the tugboat pull and push this huge barge and crane and move it around the Detroit River. I was just looking at the pigeons in a photo on your site – you have ice there in the mountain area – I was amazed.
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Yes 👍🏻 truly amazing place 👌🌷Thank you for sharing 🙏♥️😊
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You’re so welcome Thattamma.
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🌷🙏♥️🌷
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Loved these! I can hear the churn of propellers and smell the diesel fumes!
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Glad you liked it JP – I was fascinated to watch this operation, then I walked back to the beginning of the boardwalk to get pictures of the crane swinging the massive concrete pillar; they were setting it in place to shore up an area near the marina. It caught the attention of the other walkers too. I figured I didn’t need a narrative as the photos showed all the diesel fumes puffing out of the tug as it chugged along doing its part. They must have had the before-during-and-post operation choreographed as it went so smoothly.
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A productive work day! Your series of pictures was like looking through at a comic strip. Each pic had something different going on.
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Yes, it was amazing to watch Esther. I watched it from start to finish and I was amazed how quickly and seemingly effortlessly, the tug pulled, then pushed the barge out without missing a beat. Amazing. I had more pictures but grudgingly left them out. 🙂
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The skill is incredible and must’ve taken years to hone. Must be muscle memory and quick maneuvering.
Your post read like wordless frames in a comic book. Nice!
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Thank you Esther – I am glad you liked it. I hope to see this set-up again as I was fascinated by what was like a choreographed event. A few weeks ago I was at the River again and there were two freighters passing, at the exact same time. It was very sunny and I had the point-and-shoot camera and was shooting blindly into the sun and the problem is all that I see is my reflection on the back. The photos are not good, but I will use them anyway. It was amazing to see them pass that close to one another.
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Nice photos as always. Do you know what the project is that they are working on?
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Ruth – actually I had seen the set-up going down the Detroit River the week before at BASF Park, but no one was close enough to ask. I recognized the tugboat name. The engineers and all the workers were very nice and answered questions and cordoned off the area where they working, but said we could watch just beyond once they began – they were shoring up areas along the shoreline at Elizabeth Park near the marina. There are cement pillars there and they replaced them and added to them. It was fascinating to watch. I thought of your husband today. I heard this story and went looking for the video. A freighter and a sailboat got a little too close. I see the freighters come really close to small boats, but have never seen them have to honk at them. That sailboat was having a difficult time moving over. The video is really long but the story is in the beginning. It was on the St. Clair River.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2021/08/24/watch-canadian-freighter-misses-sailboat-st-clair-river/5579570001/
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Wow! That was a close call. I know the area well. Port Huron just below the Blue Water Bridge. In the video it looks like the freighter turns intentionally toward the sail boat but there is a sharp bend in the river there and he is just following the course. There is also a heavy current there which makes it more difficult for him to stop or change course. A dangerous situation for sure.
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That’s interesting Ruth. I heard the story several times yesterday and thought I’d Google it. Usually you have to pay to read stories on “The Detroit News” site, but this was okay. I wondered why all of a sudden that freighter made the sharp turn like that – now I know. That freighter sure was plowing through the water wasn’t it? I wonder if the sailboat had a difficult time turning due to the heavy current too? I see lots of fishing boats get fairly close up to those freighters and wonder how safe it is doing so?
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It’s very dangerous for small boats to get that close to the freighters and when they get real close the guy at the wheel can’t even see them.
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I wondered if the sailboat drifted, but still. I see them get too close at the Detroit River shoreline all the time … and cringe.
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Since the sail boat was relying on their sails they may have had a hard time changing course. My husband says that to some boaters it seems to be a game. Stupid!
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That could be too … the sailboat was not counting on the freighter turning. I agree with your husband Ruth. Playing chicken with a freighter is really stupid!!
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I could almost smell the water! 🙂
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I was pretty close to it – no wonder! The engineers really weren’t persnickety about everyone watching up close and they only cordoned off a small area. It was amazing to watch them maneuver around and that huge cement pylon dangling in air. I went down the boardwalk to get those shots so people could see how large it was. 🙂
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Isn’t it fun to watch the hurry and scurry of the boats as they go about their work? A wonderful set of photos!
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Glad you liked the photos Rebecca. I knew when I saw your post with the boats a few weeks ago, you’d enjoy these. I had more photos but left them out as I thought it might be too long. They were mostly the “scouts” going ahead to check the water was clear of pleasure boats, so that the tug and barge had nothing in their way. I found it fascinating … the entire operation and that’s why I ran to the other end of the boardwalk to take photos from afar of the big cement pillars or pylons that shore up boardwalk area.
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I love watching the tugboats and the big freighters unloading at the coal docks. Beautiful pictures Linda!
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This was fascinating to watch Diane … I even said to one of the engineers that the Captain has done a great job parking the barge so close to the shoreline. He said “he’s a great Captain!” All the diesel smoke puffing out – you could tell how hard that tug was working! They used to load cement at the cement silos near where I worked and it was a client of ours so we could go watch and go aboard. My boss usually did and took me once or twice. They’ve taken the silos away as they built the River Walk. Glad you enjoyed it Diane.
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Oooo. Working boats. I love the tug! It’s fun to watch working vessels. When we visited Lake Superior a few years back, we waited around to watch them pour ore into a big cargo ship hold. It’s so amazing.
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I really enjoyed watching this operation too Eilene. It was so effortless … that little tug maneuvering the barge with its crane and cement pylons down the River. When I still worked on site, we were near the cement silos (which have since been torn down as part of finalizing the Detroit River Walk). Our client had freighters loading up cement at the silos. They’d dock to load the cement and my boss would go aboard and visit. He took me with him a few times. Those freighters are huge but inside, the accommodations were not all that rustic. My boss used to go on a little freighter trip every Summer … catch it downtown and ride to Wisconsin sometimes, then fly back. No trips the last two years due to COVID though.
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That sounds like a fun thing to do – travel with a “deluxe” freighter!
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I took a tour of the accommodations and was amazed. That particular client’s freighter, like many other Great Lakes freighters, take on paying passengers, so it resembles a cruise ship that travels on the Great Lakes, but more exciting as it is a working freighter and lots of hustle and bustle. The only drawback was when they are in port loading/unloading, there is no A/C and no cell signal. My boss was on a freighter trip ten years ago and they went to Cleveland on a cement run. There had been a storm and several freighters ahead of them were stacked up in a queue awaiting loads. Their ship got into port and had weather issues. He ended up being in Cleveland twelve or so hours (usually a couple of hours only) and it was a heat wave like we are having right now. I remember this as it was the weekend I started my walking regimen, 10 years ago next week.
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Miss Linda…………………………..Now you are into boats??……………………….you are so interesting……………………..to listen to……………………………on ………………………Wordless Wednesday!
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Ann Marie – I was there at Elizabeth Park walking (from the post I just did on Monday) and right after I saw the groundhog, I was near the Marina and saw the tugboat so went for a closer look. I was there at least an hour watching the tugboat and barge maneuvering around the Detroit River.
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Love these, Linda!
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It was fascinating to watch their operation Pam. I stood there, like other walkers on the boardwalk, from start to finish.
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They’re so cute!
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As Pam L. says, there’s something endearing about tugboats (including their name). Maybe it’s because they’re small but mighty (like Popeye back in the day). Or maybe it’s the toy versions that used to bob around our bathtubs when we were kids. Whatever the reason, they’re fascinating to watch (as in the Suez Canal debacle a few months back). Tugboats seem to defy physics as they maneuver much bigger ships around.
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Dave – I agree with you and Pam and the tugboats remind me of the story we learned about “The Little Engine That Could”. Just like the little engine, this little boat is pulling, pushing and moving this massive barge. The barge was big, but the crane and cement pylons on top of it! I was glad to have captured some of the smoke coming from the smokestack so you could see just how hard that tugboat was working. I was amazed watching the tugboat in the Suez Canal debacle too … it was small so it could get in there and be of benefit.
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That must have been fun to watch! We are currently in an area with a ton of ferry traffic from island to island… so interesting!
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Yes Janis, I was fascinated (along with everyone on the boardwalk) to watch the whole operation which the tugboat and those engineers made such a large operation go so effortlessly. They seemed to enjoy they had an audience that was interested and explained what they were doing. That tugboat captain steered that barge to the shoreline better than I parallel park (almost never if I can help it). 🙂
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