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 
They don’t look nearly as graceful when they stand and stretch.
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No they don’t and it’s difficult to associate them with the graceful swan gliding past you
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Wonderful shot.
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Thank you Rupali.
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Some days I feel like that!
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Me too – sometimes the sun is out after a slew of bad-weather days, just looking up at it and enjoying it on my face like this swan.
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Great action photo, Linda!
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Thank you Pam!
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Swan Lake on ice!
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Yes, poetry in motion! Amazing how much bigger it looks standing up as opposed to in the water.
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Yep,they are a BIG bird no doubt!
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I think I like the look of swans IN the water more than OUT of the water. 🙂
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Great shot Linda!
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Thanks Joni – it sure doesn’t like how you usually see a swan does it?
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It’s very yoga-like!
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Ha! Learning proper yoga technique from a swan. Love it!!!
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Yes, this swan has nailed the proper yoga techniques Laurie!
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He does look ready to transition into downward dog, doesn’t he? Love the shot!
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Thanks Zazzy – I was going to tack this photo on the end of last week’s Spring Preening post, but this big stretch and looking up at the sun/sky, I had to give the shot its own post. 🙂
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Fuzzy and soft swan! It looks like the swan is covered in snow or it looks chubby.
Nice action photo. 🙂
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Thanks Esther – it is amazing how big these swans look when they are not gracefully swimming along.
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So that’s how big they are! I always imagined them slim. When you don’t see them in person, just ideas of what you think they look like gets stuck in my head. lol
Glad to learn more about these amazing creatures through your pictures and words.
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I thought they were graceful and much smaller too and I had no idea of their size until that swan chased me for taking pictures of him and his Missus. I couldn’t believe how big the body was as up to then, I’d only seen them gliding in the water, most of their body and those big webbed feet.
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What an experience! Getting chased by a swan. You wouldn’t think it really. A goose maybe, but not a swan. Glad you didn’t get hurt or slip.
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It was scary as I backed up and there was ice and this “beast” was coming after me. 🙂 Good reason to always carry peanuts on me.
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Good idea!
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So wonderful to be alive! Gratitude for sunshine…
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I like that Barbara! I look at that swan and it is like it is lost in thought or transported far away. Sun is good for the soul, whether it is man or beast … (I guess critter fits better here than beast).
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We’re all solar powered!
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Yes, our outlook is better and brighter, so bring it on. (The sun has been so rare around these parts, I have to look twice to make sure it isn’t a figment of my imagination up there in the sky.)
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Way to be there and capture the moment!! Nice photo. 🙂
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Thanks Shelley – this swan seemed to be either catching some rays or deep in thought in its yoga-like pose. 🙂
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You have a knack for catching great poses!
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Thank you Shelley Mr./Ms. Swan looks a little scary in this pose, so no wonder it had the ice floe to itself. 🙂
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You’re welcome 😊
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Wonderful. Such a good stretch!
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Nothing like a full-body stretch to take on the day!
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Wish I woke up with that kind of energy.
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Yes, me too Ruth. Is that swan channeling your yoga moves?
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Well thank you Linda! 🙂
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You’re welcome – that was just for you Jeanine! Remember I told you I had one more swan photo that you’d find a little freaky. It looks like a yoga pose, yet the way the swan is standing and holding its wings, it really doesn’t even look like a swan.
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Ha ha, i know 🙂 I was actually waiting for it. This is no yoga pose, that scarry thing is getting ready to attack!
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No more swans for a while – I promise. 🙂
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such a powerful photo to use as a single image post – well done Linda
and the wings almost made it feel like this was some type of great painting –
and I like how you said “poetry in motion: in one of the comments – that sums it up so well
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Thank you so much Yvette! I originally was going to just put this as the last photo in the swan Spring Preening series, but something about the way the swan was gazing upward and the wings were not like the other photos, I decided to associate it with yoga. That swan looked to me like he was transported to another world didn’t it? I think it is the same for humans with the sun on their face – it makes you feel alive. We had another crummy, all-day rain today. The weather folks said it would be a rainy Spring and it has been; day after day of gloomy and rainy weather.
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Despite this being a “Wordless Wednesday” post, I love “Swan Sun Salutation”. The photo makes me think “Sun” almost could’ve been “Song”. Good one, Linda!
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Thanks Dave – with the ice now gone, there will be less swans gathering in this cove area, so it is like a swan song. This swan looked so caught up in its stretch and looking up at the sky/sun, I thought “I have to use a title like that.” Swans out of the water, especially this one, don’t resemble those graceful gliding creatures we are accustomed to seeing.
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