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 
Wonderful all photos. Nice clearity photo shoot.
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Thanks rajkkhoja – this is a typical November day for us here in Michigan, but this year we have been enjoying a November that feels like Summer.
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Enjoyed Nice weather! Like a summer.
Thank you so much!
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You’re so welcome!
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My pleasure!
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The first….
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Is that the Edmund Fitzgerald in the second photo?
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No Dave, but it looks a lot like the Edmund Fitzgerald with its rust-colored body and white deck. The Edmund Fitzgerald was built just a few miles from where I live.
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I was just teasing another lyric out of your post. Impressive response by you!
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I’ve always been interested in this ship Dave and there was a lot of media coverage each year since it was built in the area, then was returning to this area with their load when it sank. They have a ceremony at the Dossin Great Lakes Maritime Museum and laying of wreaths on the water every year on November 10th. We have a few freighter clients and I was on a Great Lakes freighter a few times when it was in port in Detroit. That freighter often took paying passengers for a Great Lakes trip and I was amazed how modern and cushy it was in the passenger stateroom and dining room when I took a tour.
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There is a winter dreariness in the air!
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Yes, with all the warm weather we’ve had lately, it is easy to forget that it is still November – we will be reminded this weekend when we don’t get above 40 and a wintry mix – ugh. The dark clouds here looked like a snow sky.
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Wow – a rather soggy day look about your photos.
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Yes it does look pretty dreary here Peggy. Our weather has been more like Summer than Fall and with most of the leaves off the trees now, it feels like “the real Fall” is starting to settle in.
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Our weather is going to change drastically here in a couple of days. Like late Fall has descended on us. Not ready for cold.
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I know what you mean Peggy. We had a couple of days (October 24th and 25th) with some snowflakes in the air and that was it. We had 74 degrees today, but flurries this weekend and a high of 40. That is just crazy weather. Today a neighbor was washing his car in shorts, a tee-shirt and flip flops – sure not a usual November 10th day.
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Hi. Did your cold weather hit? They keep changing our forecast. Right now, next week’s highs are 40’s. Brrr. My husband loves Gordon Lightfoot music. Love how you tight it into your post! Beautiful pictures.
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We are inching toward a very cold weekend Jessica. The weatherman says the warm weather party is over soon. It has been a beautiful Fall here. Thank goodness no snow yet – we had a whopper snowfall one year on Veteran’s Day. It was a Sunday morning and I woke up to a wet and very heavy snow that blanketed everything. It was gorgeous and a fluke as we never get that much snow in early November.
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It’s hard to believe it’s November already. What a strange year it’s been. Blinked and it’s nearly winter. Snow in November does sound early. Bet it was pretty, though. Today is our last warm day for awhile. Then lows drop to 20’s and highs go to 40’s. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr Time to start baking and working on puzzles.
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Same here Jessica – we got to 74 today. I’ll savor that nice walk I had this morning as we edge toward Winter and the “real Fall” finally settles in. Winter is a good time for puzzles. My late mom did puzzles for years and I saved many of them for my eventual retirement. It’s nice to step away from the computer to do enjoyable things like read or do puzzles.
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Winter is here early, indeed, and rode in on the Edmund Fitzgerald, Linda! 🙂 I wonder how it got to Spokane–on the backs of eagles maybe?
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Well that pretty much finishes off your Fall now Terri. You said it was like it never happened. Sigh. My neighbor’s Magnolia trees are in bud, but will likely freeze as we have a cold weekend and wintry mix on tap. Guess it is our turn now.
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It does work it’s way east. There are still some stubborn fall leaves but most have fallen on top of the snow–click–just like that. Stay warm!!
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We had 74 today – I’ll savor today’s walk for a long time. I went out to get the mail mid-day and a neighbor was washing his car and wearing shorts, teeshirt and flip flops; it seems inconceivable to have snow in the forecast 48 hours later.
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Gordon Lightfoot actually played a theater in our city earlier this year! I cannot believe he is still touring and entertaining!
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I didn’t know he was still touring – wow. I just looked him up and he is 83 years old. I have always liked his music and would have loved to go see him. I’ve always regretted not seeing the original Eagles too. You figure these singers will always be around, then suddenly their not. I know Glenn Frey’s son plays with the Eagles now – his dad was from SE Michigan.
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I agree. A friend of mine went to see the Eagles, the tickets were so expensive. She saw them in Toronto.
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I believe it Susan. A friend of mine lives in Cary, North Carolina and she said the same thing and it was the “new” Eagles.
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I hope that freighter photo wasn’t taken on Saturday. It seemed way to windy for them to be underway.
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No, I wasn’t down at the River this past Saturday Ruth … I might have ended up in the Detroit River with that wind blowing like it was. Only a couple of months more ’til shipping season ends and no more freighters to watch down at the River. Those gale-force winds Saturday caused a lot of power outages again … it has been a bad year for severe weather in our state hasn’t it?
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We didn’t have any power outages in our area this time but they have been doing a lot of tree trimming around here since the last outage.
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That’s a good thing Ruth. DTE is supposed to trim two trees in my backyard – they grew behind my metal shed and after the shed blew across the yard in a 39 mph wind gust, the trees are there, large and touching wires.
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Hi Ruth – I heard this on the radio today (I will send the link separately in case it goes to SPAM). Is your husband interested in the Edmund Fitzgerald? This guy, a former reporter, dove down to the wreckage, wrote a book – interesting interview and a story is on PBS tomorrow night (WTVS from 8:00 – 9:30). If you don’t get PBS on your TV, you can stream it online – will send that link with the other one. . I watch other PBS shows like “All Creatures Great and Small” online.
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Ruth – stream it at DPTV.org
Here is the article and interview. I thought it was really interesting – good interview. https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/news/local/new-edmund-fitzgerald-book-shares-new-in-depth-secrets
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Oh beautiful, peaceful Bishop Park in Wyandotte, Michigan!
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Right you are Ann Marie – always peaceful down at Bishop Park in lovely Wyandotte, Michigan.
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I always liked that song, if not the weather. We haven’t really had any gale like weather this side of the border, some windy but the skies have have not been too gloomy.
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I always liked that song too Joni. I liked all of his songs and I nearly wore the grooves in the album down from playing it so much. Saturday will be gloomy with a capital “G” here – I guess our great Fall weather is gone for good on Friday night.
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I checked the long range as my hairdresser had to cancel again (her kids are sick and she works out of her house so I appreciated her letting me know they weren’t better), and I was trying to decide when to rebook and there is snow coming mid-to the end of next week and onward…..ugh….I hate the thought of it. It’s a 40 min drive out in the county so I have to be careful as my winter driving skills are rusty now that I don’t work.
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Oh, good thing she told you. We have such an outbreak of RSV here that some hospitals are banning children from visiting patients in hospitals unless it is a parent or end-of-life situation. In Ann Arbor, at Mott Children’s Hospital, they are postponing routine surgeries as there is a shortage of beds due to RSV cases. That’s scary because RSV is even transmittable to adults who have weakened immune systems. No vaccine for RSV yet they say. Now we have to worry about snow and I wanted to give my car another long run before the snow flies … this weekend they say snow flurries, but another station says “wintry mix” – you drove more than me while working as I always took the bus, so my winter driving skills weren’t great to begin with. It got to 74 degrees today – amazing! I still have some grocery shopping to do that I couldn’t get done before – one more load of non-perishables. I don’t want to be running around the following week as the stores and people ar getting ready for Thanksgiving.
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Oooohhh…what a sad song. Your photos capture the mood perfectly!
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Thanks Laurie – yes, the sky was so gray and somber and the freighter going by gave me the idea to use these pictures for the anniversary. This sad song is instantly recognizable after a few notes isn’t it?
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The lone seagull on the ground is the intelligent one. Laying low helps to avoid the gusty, chilly winds! 😉
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That’s for sure Tom. That breeze down on the River is chilly even on a Summer’s Day sometime. He is hunkered down for the long haul. 🙂 We’ve had such a wonderful Fall – you as well I’m sure. I hate to see the “real Fall” settle in.
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Nice job on setting the mood for the post! That seagull is smart to hunker down. 😉
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Thanks Shelley. The sky looked like it would open up any minute. Leaves blowing around and gloomy. That seagull was smart and left its friends up on the boardwalk railing to get blown about.
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You’re welcome. It’s always a bit sad to me when the trees at their peak of beauty have to shed their leaves to the winds that blow in the cooler weather.
The seagull’s cleverness and resilience are commendable. 😉
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I feel like we’ve been living on borrowed time the end of October and so far in November. I’m never going to be the person who says of Winter “I’m ready – bring it on!”
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Yes, we are. In fact on Thursday it was 65 here and then on Friday it was 31 with strong winds, felt like 14 degrees. Winter, I fear, is here for us in WI! Stay warm!!!
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The weather is crazy here too Shelley. We got to 74 on Thursday and this afternoon it was 34 and snowing like crazy. There is snow on the grass only, but still …. you stay warm too. I guess the weather party is over now.
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😉🥶🧊
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I love the misty weather you captured. I can almost hear a foghorn over the water… Even the gull cries sound different when the air is gray and murky.
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Thanks Barbara – it was a gloomy day and really quiet down at the River, with just a freighter silently gliding by. I live close enough to hear the foghorns. We’ve had a few foggy mornings lately and the foghorns were blowing continuously. I was wondering why that one gull separated itself from the others.
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Maybe he needed some time to himself. 😉
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Amazing how the colors in nature change around us, if you take the time to look around. I like your photos.
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Thanks Ally – glad you liked the photos. Those photos look like Fall should look, gray and gloomy with leaves all around. I think this weekend we’re in for a rude awakening after our wonderful weather party we’ve been having for weeks.
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My goodness that looks cold. I like warm, golden fall with yellow and orange leaves piled up around me. Not so much the cold and gloomy. We had a 40+ drop in temperature as well but it’s sunny skies this afternoon. We’ll see what happens this weekend. Winter is on her way.
Stay warm!
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Same here Zazzy. I have taken a lot of photos of those yellow and orange and red leaves in October. We had an exceptionally pretty Fall this year as to leaf colors. I’ll be interspersing those leaf peeping walks with the walks from July and September so my posts don’t all look the same. That 40+ drop in temps happens overnight tonight for us. Our weather folks said to enjoy the last few Summer-like days as we won’t see them for awhile.
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I wonder if that fella in the third photo was tapping his feet to entice up the worms for his dinner, Linda? Your photos look like what I always expect of November. Grey skies and gloomy, but I don’t mind those days, providing it isn’t wet.
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That’s a good theory Hugh – I’ll bet you are right. I wondered why he left the rest of the crowd. We had such a wonderfully warm Autumn, that our suddenly cold November was a shock to the system, especially since a wintry mix is on the horizon for us.
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Quite the contrast from your last post, where everything looked so warm and sunny.
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Yes, wasn’t it? And you likely had the same ugly, wintry weather descend last weekend? A light jacket one day and shoveling a wintry mix two days later. Today we had September-like weather.
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