#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 
I loved the title. These scenes make me wonder – did you see a stash of Keebler cookies anywhere nearby? 🙂
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Thanks JP – I was trying to match the creativity of this little garden with my title. It is not all that big, maybe two feet in diameter. Darn … it is an outdoor venue, so they have taken the display away for the Winter, so I can’t do a Keebler cookie check. I will look next Summer though! 🙂
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🤣🤣😂
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Thank you Diane – I decided to be creative like the garden. No I didn’t see any cookies, but it would be the perfect place to stash some of those fudge-striped cookies. I haven’t had any of those in years. I used to love ’em!
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So cute! On a bike path near our house, there is a faerie garden in the woods, complete with little fairy houses like the ones you show in your photo. It’s a good point to stop and take a breather to look around while I’m running! 🙂
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That sounds cute too Laurie – a perfect spot to stop for a breather. A fellow blogger just did a post about an event in a wooded area where they have various life-sized faerie garden displays throughout the woods. I told her I was going to show this dish garden at the Botanical Gardens for a post and it was on a very small scale. The dish garden is only about two feet in diameter and sits on the ground.
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Very clever title.
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Thank you Anne – I was trying to be creative like this little garden.
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Enchanting! Love all the little details and the different mosses and tiny ferns. The little mushrooms, the gnomes and the empty boots, the little blue wheelbarrow, and the tiny birdcages. They sure got a lot into one little fairy garden!
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Glad you liked it Barbara! I knew you’d get a kick out of it and it’s so tiny compared to the faerie gardens you photographed in your recent post. I liked all the little details too and is not big at all, maybe two feet in diameter if that and it sits on the ground within the Conservatory of the Botanical Gardens. It is gone for the Winter now – they had cleared about 90% of the plants away when I visited there on Halloween. They overwinter at various volunteers and Board members’ homes is what I was told a few years back.
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Hi Linda, I was looking forward to this! Great title as well 😉
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Hi Jeanine – Glad you liked it, though these little people are much smaller than your guys. I should have tagged it as “Gnomevember” so I think I’ll do that now.
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I’ve tried a Fairy Garden once in Australia, the spot was just not chosen very well. Nothing grew in that tree stump … All that was cute was that lost door 🙂 Your photos made me want to try once more. I would need some new gnomes for that though??
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Or mini gnomes – can you buy them that small Jeanine? I saw a video on how to make a faerie garden using an old birdbath and repurposing it … maybe in the stump it didn’t get enough drainage, but I like the idea of making it in a stump. I’ve seen people put a little house halfway up a tree and a tiny ladder to climb up the tree.
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Oh, you’re giving me ideas here … For a start, there’s only a small balcony to work with. Maybe I could make some gnomes myself? Might make a great winter project?!!
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I found two videos for you Jeanine and you could look at these and maybe order the faeries and gnome accessories. If you Google where to buy fairy garden supplies, a few places come up, but of course Amazon where you can see them and trust Amazon. The link below is a whole page of gnomes and accessories at Amazon. So you don’t have to make them with clay. 🙂 Have a look at these. I think it would be fun to do over the long and cold and snowy Winter:
https://www.birdsandblooms.com/backyard-projects/diy-garden-projects/turn-birdbath-mini-garden/
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=miniature+gnomes+for+fairy+garden&crid=2K8UX2FNCM5W0&sprefix=gnomes+for+fairy+garde%2Caps%2C182&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_2_22
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Oh thank you Linda! I’ll certainly check this out!
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They had a big selection so I’m sure you’ll find something tailor made for you. I think you’ll have fun with it Jeanine.
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Miss Linda…………………………….definitely a Gnome Man’s land!……………………..you have a great imagination for creating stories
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Thank you Ann Marie – you will make my head swell. You’re right; there were more gnomes than faeries in this small garden at Taylor Botanical Gardens.
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I enjoy the imagination that goes into these. I was inspired by one that we see at a butterfly garden near where we live and made a small version of a gnome garden in a decorative bird bath on my back porch. My granddaughter enjoyed helping me set it up.
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Me too Rebecca – it was very creative and this dish garden is about the same diameter as a bird bath, but it sits on the floor at the Taylor Botanical Gardens. I used to subscribe to “Birds & Blooms” magazine and they had step-by-step directions for creating a faerie garden from a birdbath and it was very clever. That’s a nice addition to your backyard.
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I don’t usually like gnomes, but in this setting they are very cute! Love the title too!
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Thanks Joni! I was trying to be creative with the title like this creative little garden. It is at the Taylor Botanical Gardens and they did pack a lot of creativity into this two-foot garden.
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I love your title! The little garden is fun to look at. I wonder if I could manage a two-foot space.
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Thanks Anne – I was aiming to try and be as creative as the garden. I think you could put it on your deck. I remember you said your deck has the hummingbird feeder and I think I remember a post where David rescued a birdbath mister before a bad storm. You could make a faerie garden in a birdbath. I saw directions one time to use a cement birdbath that was cracked and repurpose it. This garden was only two feet in diameter and was on the ground at the Botanical Gardens. I thought it looked fun too!
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I’d love to have a small garden like that, but I don’t have the creativity for it.
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I think you’d have fun doing it and it would complement the hummingbird feeder. I went onto YouTube and found a lot of different videos, some for a birdbath, others for dish gardens/planters. Just put in “make a faerie garden in a birdbath” and you’ll be surprised how many come up
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I wish I would look at those videos. Lise arrives next Thursday, and I’m starting to cook and clean tomorrow.
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Oh, you will be very busy now … the countdown begins and how nice Lise will be there a whole week before Thanksgiving to visit beforehand and get acclimated to the time change. Will she be working that first week like she did last time? I have a couple of links to show you and another blogger is interested as well as she lives in an apartment and would like to make it for her balcony. I think you could go to Michael’s craft store or a nursery that has gifts to get the little houses, faeries, gnomes.
https://www.birdsandblooms.com/backyard-projects/diy-garden-projects/turn-birdbath-mini-garden/
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Lise will be working a few days while she is here. I don’t know when that will be. Thank you for the link. I’m going to look at it now.
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You’re welcome Anne. Yes, there were two, one is more to show what type of plants. And you can order the accessories on Amazon or I’m sure a craft store like Michael’s would have them. I think it would be fun to do. That’s great Lise is back to visit. Something to look forward to and kick off the holiday season.
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Accessories are on Amazon too (which didn’t surprise me).
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=fairy+garden+accessories&crid=3Q84GFEVEMH76&sprefix=fairy+%2Caps%2C212&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_6
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Wow! They have all sorts of things!
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Yes! I was surprised. I guess it is a popular hobby. The other blogger lives in Berlin and she wondered if she had to make her own gnomes. She actually collects gnomes in her garden. Gnomes are big over there – they celebrate them like this: “Gnomvember” plus they have a huge tourist attraction that is all about gnomes. See what you learn when blogging? I learn a lot!
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That is interesting. I’ve seen a child’s fairy garden on an English blog. Would you think of creating one?
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I think it would be fun to do and I might do it when I’m retired and I think I’d use a birdbath. I gave my birdbaths away after the pest control service said I couldn’t use them, but if I could get another resin birdbath, I’d do it – mine had rabbits with a daisy in their mouth peeking around the pedestal and sides of the fountain, something whimsical. I’d like to do one of those teacup feeders too. You can do that yourself – glue a teacup saucer with the cup turned on its side and hang the cup handle on a hook. You put the birdseed in the saucer. It is very pretty – my grandmother gave me two English bone china teacups and I don’t drink tea. I drink green tea, but for good health, but don’t like it – I tolerate it.
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If you make a birdbath garden, I’m sure you’d share it with us.
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I sure will Anne. I still have the fixin’s for a butterfly garden … rocks for them to sun on and two butterfly houses for them to go into out of the rain or the wind. I’d try a butterfly garden again too but the weather is so iffy anymore, I’m reluctant to plant too much. I lost most of my flowers with the first polar vortex and they were planted in 1985 so well established. This is easier – you’d just replant each year and take in the accessories.
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The easiest thing is to wait for you to plant a birdbath garden and look at your photos.
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I hope it doesn’t disappoint!
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It is guaranteed to bring me pleasure.
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I have these cute little metal calico chickens I bought years ago at Gardener’s Supply. They are very colorful – I am thinking of doing my side area with a farm theme. I wanted to paint the little white rocking chair red or bright yellow and when I picked it up to take it into the basement until next Spring, it totally fell apart. So did my little wheelbarrow. It had to be the constant rain we had from late June on and it didn’t have time to dry out properly. Both items were 10 years old though so I couldn’t complain too much.
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That’s a shame that they fell apart. We had one thing that disintegrated. It was a triangular trellis for a climbing plant. It came with the house and was not new. We replaced it with a metal one.
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Must have been wood and I probably should have treated the two items. The wooden wagon has been falling apart since day #1 – it was poorly constructed and I had to nail it together. The rocking chair was fine, but I wish you could see the look on my face when I picked it up and it just crumpled and fell apart.
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Sad!!
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Here’s the teacup feeder – I like the hanging one, but this is a sitting teacup feeder. I would put thistle seeds for goldfinch or safflower seeds for cardinals to thwart the squirrels:
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How cute! Didn’t you have one in your yard too?
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I thought it was cute too … I don’t have one of these in my yard, but thought I’d like to make on when I’m retired and have some time to play. I used to subscribe to “Birds and Blooms” and now just follow on Facebook and they had a DIY faerie garden using a birdbath, specifically a cracked cement birdbath to repurpose it. It was very cute. A few weeks ago a fellow blogger did a post on a wooded area where there are faerie garden displays – some are very elaborate. I bet you would have fun doing this and you could do it with the grandkids:
https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/1261713/posts/3634132782
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I love your clever title! The garden is so cute, obviously a labor of love. Projects like that shared with the world make it a much brighter, happier place.
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Thanks Eilene – I thought I’d try to be creative like the little garden. I thought it was cute too. It is at the Botanical Gardens at Heritage Park and it thrives in a little corner on the floor by itself. You’re right – the world needs more joy, simple joys like this.
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Good pun. Fairy gardens are popular and add a bit of whimsy to the world. What’s not to love?
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Thank you – I was trying to be creative like the garden. I think they are very cute too Ally. I was impressed with the woodsy event with all the fairy gardens in Barbara’s recent post.
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I’ve never seen anything like that before Tom … thank you for sending it. Like a few other bloggers, I thought all that was going on behind closed doors was the baking of Keebler cookies. 🙂
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I don’t know if you realized it or not, but those 3 “Gnomes” are actually the band members of the rock group called Rush. This clip was what they used (i.e., displayed) during an intermission period during some of their concerts. All 3, by the way, are from Canada. Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist, is now deceased.
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No, I didn’t know that Tom; that sailed right over my head. I knew of the group Rush and I did know they were Canadian. The song I remember the most was “Fly by Night”. Were you at a concert where they played the video?
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Relaxing to imagine oneself on that island. When I was a kid, I wanted to live in a mushroom like the “Smurfs.”
Witty blog title Linda!
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How relaxing Esther and if you lived in a mushroom, let it be one of those gigantic ones that are red topped with white polka dots like Andy photographs sometimes. 🙂
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I think those little gnome homes are so darn cute. You found a fun one to capture!!
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I think so too Shelley. Lots of imagination goes into making them. I posted some links to do faerie garden in a birdbath … very different and it looks like fun.
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😍😊😍 You have a wonderful imagination!
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Thank you Shelley
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I wish I had a garden so I could create my own little wonderland.
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Barbara, one of the bloggers has an apartment and she is going to try to do a garden in a birdbath and put it on her balcony. Do you have a patio area where you could put a birdbath or a container on a pedestal? I found one on “Birds & Blooms” – maybe this could work for you. I wish I could say this was my creation, but I saw it at the Taylor Botanical Gardens.
https://www.birdsandblooms.com/backyard-projects/diy-garden-projects/turn-birdbath-mini-garden/
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Perfect title (and Keebler peeves must be hanging out in there)
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Thanks Yvette! I like Wordless Wednesday – gives me a chance to do a fun title or use some fun photos. The world needs more fun these days.
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Very cute. A perfect home for gnomes. 🙂
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You need to make one for your garden Clare! There are directions in the comments to use a birdbath. It would look perfect in your revitalized backyard!
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Oh, I love your garden “Gnome Mans’ Land!” The little houses are absolutely gorgeous! You just gave me ideas for my garden next spring! ❤
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Cherie – Glad you liked it! You have to go through the comments as I put some how-to’s for using a birdbath as one person had an apartment balcony, another would use a deck and you can buy the gnomes and accessories on Amazon. I think it would be a fun project. P.S. – I would love to claim this faerie garden as my own, but it was at the Conservatory and Botanical Gardens in a neighboring city, but I was inspired too! Good luck!
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My pleasure. 😊 I definitely have and will go over it again and take notes.
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Hope it works out for you Cherie.
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Thank you. 🙂
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You’re welcome Cherie.
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