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 
So pretty 🤩 Linda. Feels like fall!
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Thanks Pam – something fun for today. This little guy was so cute bopping in and out of his house. 🙂 Our Fall comes tomorrow when it drops 25 degrees from today. It’s almost 8:00 p.m. and still 82 out there!
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Wow, that’s a big swing! We are welcoming fall with a little rain hopefully because we need it!
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Pam, it was plenty chilly out this morning and I got to the Park and decided a coat would be nice and maybe even a hat as the winds were gusting to 15 mph. I heard the weather reports, but thought it would be a welcome change – maybe not.
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Summer is going out with a bang! Autumn 🍂 arrives at 9:04 p.m., Linda!
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Yep – it goes downhill from here. Soon it will be the slick leaves, black ice, etc., etc. I’m going full speed ahead to get my miles done so no angst at year-end making my goal.
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I have faith in you, Linda!
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Thank you Pam – this cooler weather will help me mark more miles and not be draggin’ my wagon!
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😂😂😂
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Very kitschy indeed! I wonder if the sparrow will actually move in.
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This Children’s Garden is kind of unusual Anne. You should see it at ground level. It caters to kids.
The bird was funny hanging outside of the birdhouse, sitting on top of it – very protective so I am wondering if he already had a family inside.
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That sparrow seems confused by all the unreal creatures around him. Ha
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I think so too Peggy! Probably why it flew over to the fence – it got too unreal being there!
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Wonderful capture picture.
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Thank you rajkkhoja – it was funny watching his/her antics!
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Wonderfully whimsical!
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Glad you liked it Barbara – the side of the barn and inside the white fence with gate is a treasure trove of children’s toys embedded among the flowers and potted plants. This birdhouse and its occupant had me smiling too!
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Aw, that’s a cute title and wonderful photos.
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Thanks Shelley – that little sparrow was quite animated. I didn’t know if it was showing off for me by popping in/out of the house or posing on it, or it was protecting a mate and young’uns. 🙂
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You’re welcome! It could be all of the above. 🙂
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Such a cute birdhouse! I don’t know if I ever told you this, Linda, but my son in Colorado builds birdhouses as a hobby. He has them hung up all around his yard. Most of them are not as elaborate as this one. My favorite one is one that he made out of an old globe that he got for free. Now Atti is learning to use tools by building birdhouses with his dad!
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That’s a great hobby doing woodworking Laurie, especially since Atti is learning how to build birdhouses alongside his dad. Three decades ago, my former neighbor enjoyed woodworking and had a shed and saw and then took his saw and workbench to Florida every Winter as he had a mobile home there. He’d build log cabin bird feeders and bird houses all Winter. He built one for me and mounted it on a PVC pole in the middle of the yard – you popped the lid open on the hinge to load it with seed. Atti will enjoy nature just like his parents (and grandparents).
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Why is there a big bug on there? If I was a bird I’d be freaked out about it. Just saying
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I’d be freaked out too Ally. They have this Children’s Garden at the Emily Frank Gardens and a lot of oddball things have been nestled into ground cover and surrounded by flowers or potted plants inside this fenced in area under the barn wall. The birdhouse rises above this “garden” in which you see the eagle in the background and a lot of Crocs filled with flowers. It’s kind of odd to see and I took some pictures looking in which I hope to make into a post. I have a ton of photos on my photo card, but just grabbed the sunflowers/goldfinch shots and this for now.
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I’m with Ally. The cricket (or whatever it is) is creepy. I’m okay with the birds and the bee (ha) but that other insect must go!
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It does look a little creepy, I must admit that Dave and that insect was about the same size as the Sparrow! They have a whole garden filled with toys amongst the flowers and potted plants. I took pictures of the Children’s Garden by standing over it as it is surrounded by a white wooden fence.
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Oh my gosh, how CUTE!!!
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This sparrow didn’t know whether to guard its house or go back inside to avoid the paparazzi. 🙂
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Haha!!! Cute!
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Love the bird house and then of course the birds and the beaks
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He was singing away on that fence – happy little bird who had a house “move-in ready” – who can ask for more?
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Move in ready is good!
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Yikes… it’s the Carboniferous Period when the insects were bigger than the birds! (Actually, there were no birds in the Carboniferous Period!) 😁
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That creature sure is scary Tom. I heard a fun (or maybe not so fun) fact yesterday and thought of you as you often have ants featured in your photos. Did you know that for every human on Earth, there are estimated to be about 2.5 million ants — or 20 quadrillion in total. Yikes!
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That birdhouse is great, Linda. I’m glad it’s occupied. Our next-door neighbour has one in their garden, but the birds did not use it this year for some reason. I think they’re supposed to be cleaned out at least once a year, so maybe the neighbours forgot to do it?
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I thought it was clever too Hugh. It very well could be why your neighbors aren’t getting birds, although Sparrows like the one in these photos, are famous for evicting smaller birds from birdhouses and moving right in and using those former birds’ nesting materials. My neighbor put a row of birdhouses on her deck railing and Wrens moved in and not long afterward, Sparrows were the only occupants in the boxes.
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Appears to me that the sparrow is too big to fit into the hole, Linda. The brave sparrow wasn’t frightened by artistic surroundings from my point of view. I believe the sparrow preferred a more natural woodsy place to explore more and took towards the fence. Fun post!
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Now I never thought of that TD – you make a valid point. This little bird appeared to enjoy posing this way and that, but just hanging off the front of the birdhouse, so he likely took a test drive through the opening and discovered he couldn’t get through!
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Though the sparrow doesn’t seem bothered by that giant insect, I agree with the folks above who think it would look better down in the foliage! The Children’s Center sounds like a great place to take the grandkids!
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I agree Nancy. The creepy insect didn’t fit in with the rest of the whimsical stuff. This garden at the side of the red barn has toys, a table and chairs, a rocking horse, all “planted” amongst the flowers. All this is in an area with a gate and a white fence around it. I’ll bet a lot of people put their kids in there and take pictures. I took pictures too when I went on July 31st – no kids playing as I was the only one there. as it was early in the morning. I hope the pictures came out okay to do a longer post. I didn’t look at them yet as I only took these birdhouse pics and the sunflower/goldfinch pics off the camera card. I have a lot of pictures on there stored up for the months I won’t get out as much. Winter is coming and it felt like it the last few days after all the heat and humidity.
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Fall did seem to arrive early this year. I suppose we’ll have a longish, hot Indian summer in October, making pumpkins and corn stalks look out of place!
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Being 10 degrees below normal when we were 10 degrees above normal seems a little wacky to me Nancy. Weather whiplash is what they call it. Was it last year or the year before we had a very long, hot Indian Summer and people put their pumpkins and gourd decor out and went to carve their pumpkins and discovered they had turned to mush?
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I remember an October, maybe seven years ago (?), when we were still in shirt sleeves most days well past the middle of October. Maybe that was the year of mushy pumpkins!
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Nancy, I know 2017 it was a warm Fall and I’ve written about my friend/neighbor Marge before, so this date sticks out in my mind. It was December 3, 2017, a Sunday. Marge had passed away in August, but December 3rd would have been her 80th birthday. I came home from walking at the Park and did another walk in the neighborhood as it was so mild and I hated to go inside. People were putting up Christmas decorations, wearing a tee-shirt, no jacket! I stopped next door at the end of my walk to mention to Jeff about it would have been his mom’s 80th birthday and I was thinking about her and him. Jeff was sitting in the yard on a lawnchair, in shorts and a tee-shirt. I think back on that day and that was when it really hit home about climate change and how our seasons quit being normal.
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What a cute bird house with all the trimmings. 🦉
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I thought so too Diane – the whole garden is whimsical like that.
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Very cute! Maybe the bird isn’t “kitschy,” maybe he is just eccentric. 🙂 I love the whimsy.
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Thank you Janis – it is a very whimsical place. Wait til you see the actual Children’s Garden – a mini paradise for kids that is in a fenced-in area where toys and tables and chairs are embedded amongst the potted plants and a lot of flowers. I like whimsy too; I have to occasionally have posts and/or photos that substantiate the “whimsy” part of my blog title.
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I prefer gardens that are a bit “messy.” Not crazy about things all lined up in neat little rows.
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Same here Janis. In my City, I’ve gone on a walk in other neighborhoods and stopped to take photos at a home on a corner lot – it must be a triple lot as it’s so large and there is no grass, just ivy ground cover and wildflowers everywhere. In Spring there are lots of tulips, all pale pink and very pretty, but after that, wildflowers and statuary – they like frogs. It is similarly a whimsical place to go with the many frogs nestled in the ivy and flowers.
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Love, love, love. Cheap and kitsch is certainly a timeless combination!
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I knew you’d like this Jeanine and since you’re busy, I figured if you didn’t see it, I’d send you this link. In fact the post before this one, was taken at the same gardens and I mentioned you in the last paragraph, just your name and your blog as I promised something kitschy for Wordless Wednesday. There is a children’s garden apart from the flower garden. It’s a fenced-in area and inside are toys embedded in the flowers, hanging on the barn wall along with a mish-mash of other things. It’s different. I took lots of photos and will make a post this Winter when I have more time. I’ve got photos from July I’ve not separated yet.
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I am not normally drawn to kitsch, but your pictures captured it well, especially the bright colors.
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I thought it would be something fun JP. I have been featuring birds every Wednesday for Wordless Wednesday for weeks now and having some fun doing this. I figured this whimsical post helps substantiate using “Whimsy” in my blog title. 🙂
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What a fun idea for a garden! The big fly reminds me of one bought my dad, possibly for father’s day. When they went to church that morning I nailed him into a porch beam and when dad saw him he laughed and laughed. It was one of the hardest things to remove when it came to clearing out the house. He was incredibly hard to buy for but sometimes the most oddball thing caught his fancy.
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That sounds like a fun thing to do for your dad Zazzy. I hope seeing this post brought a smile to your face then. This is a fun children’s garden at this new place I discovered this year when the plein air painting group went there on day and I saw the barn. I knew I had to go there.
It has lots of mulched paths and formal-type gardens, a pond, a produce garden for a local food bank and then the children’s garden. Lots of fun things hung on walls, the barn side, or on pedestals and “growing” among the flowers. It was a fun place. I’ll use the rest of the photos one time in the Winter to brighten our spirits with the cold/snow/ice …I’m very far behind here, almost a week and behind in sorting photos from July 4th weekend and beyond long treks.
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