Swan sun salutation.  #Wordless Wednesday  #Wake up and greet the day!

Posted on March 30, 2022 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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48 Responses to Swan sun salutation.  #Wordless Wednesday  #Wake up and greet the day!

  1. J P's avatar J P says:
    March 30, 2022 at 5:20 am

    They don’t look nearly as graceful when they stand and stretch.

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  2. Rupali's avatar Rupali says:
    March 30, 2022 at 6:16 am

    Wonderful shot.

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  3. Kate Crimmins's avatar Kate Crimmins says:
    March 30, 2022 at 8:19 am

    Some days I feel like that!

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  4. Pam Lazos's avatar Pam Lazos says:
    March 30, 2022 at 9:14 am

    Great action photo, Linda!

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  6. Joni's avatar Joni says:
    March 30, 2022 at 10:26 am

    Great shot Linda!

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  7. Laurie's avatar Laurie says:
    March 30, 2022 at 12:10 pm

    Ha! Learning proper yoga technique from a swan. Love it!!!

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  8. Zazzy's avatar Zazzy says:
    March 30, 2022 at 3:30 pm

    He does look ready to transition into downward dog, doesn’t he? Love the shot!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      March 30, 2022 at 9:16 pm

      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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  9. singlikewildflowers's avatar singlikewildflowers says:
    March 30, 2022 at 9:34 pm

    Fuzzy and soft swan! It looks like the swan is covered in snow or it looks chubby.
    Nice action photo. 🙂

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  10. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    March 31, 2022 at 6:45 am

    So wonderful to be alive! Gratitude for sunshine…

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  11. Shelley@QuaintRevival.com's avatar Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
    March 31, 2022 at 7:00 am

    Way to be there and capture the moment!! Nice photo. 🙂

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  12. Ally Bean's avatar Ally Bean says:
    March 31, 2022 at 9:44 am

    Wonderful. Such a good stretch!

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  13. ruthsoaper's avatar ruthsoaper says:
    March 31, 2022 at 7:52 pm

    Wish I woke up with that kind of energy.

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  14. bekitschig's avatar bekitschig says:
    April 1, 2022 at 6:31 am

    Well thank you Linda! 🙂

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  15. Prior...'s avatar Prior... says:
    April 4, 2022 at 2:20 am

    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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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      April 4, 2022 at 8:19 pm

      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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  16. Dave's avatar Dave says:
    April 5, 2022 at 12:46 pm

    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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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      April 5, 2022 at 9:03 pm

      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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