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 
Wonderful photography. So beautiful garden & toys play. Beautiful ride.
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Thank you Raj – glad you liked it. It is a park for children with disabilities and a Braille Garden Walk (sensory experience) … the coyote ran past the park, but didn’t stop and go inside.
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Beautiful children play park. But didn’t seen children played.
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A little surprising for that Raj as it is a beautiful park.
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Okay, thanks Linda 👍
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What a lovely place for children to play.
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It is nice and along the Ecorse Creek. It is a park for kids with special needs, so the playground can accommodate wheelchairs and there is a sensory Braille walk with planter’s boxes filled with flowers.
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Love the coyote? dog? critter?
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Yes, a coyote. We get them from time to time. This Park is a half-mile down from Council Point Park along the Ecorse Creek. It is a park geared for kids with disabilities and they have a Braille Walk with flowers in planter’s boxes for a sensory experience. The flowers had a lot of weeds, so I didn’t include them. A couple of years ago we had a coyote family at Council Point Park – parents and a pup. They were visible at night, hid in the bushes during the day. I have seen several running around the ‘hood and we are not out in the sticks!
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Miss Linda……………………………Of course I know where this special Park is now…………………………..thanks for sharing about it………………and Of course the dog should not be near that park on no leash!
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Have you ever walked there Ann Marie? It is along the Ecorse Creek and I go there sometimes if they are mowing the lawn at Council Point Park because with so many mowers, the noise is deafening and the squirrels and birds hide. Glad you liked the post, but I have to tell you it is a coyote running by the park.
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Aww, even the coyote wants to play, Linda! Great shots, I have a Sunday Stills prompt on playgrounds coming up in 2 weeks!
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Yes Terri – he wants a piece of the action and could have gone into the park as no one else was there. We get coyotes from time to time running around the neighborhood and we are not in a rural area. This is a park made for special needs kids, plus there is a Braille sensory walk with flowers (the flowers had a lot of weeds so I left them out). Too bad I didn’t wait a couple more weeks to use this post for your playgrounds prompt. I am aiming for a “wildlife” Wordless Wednesday post each week if possible, like I did last Summer.
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Is that a wolf, Linda?!
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Hi Pam – no, it is a coyote. We are not that rural for wolves, but we have them in the Upper Penisula of Michigan. We do get coyotes from time to time in our City, especially around this park and Council Point Park as there are bushy areas along a Creek. This coyote ran past this park for special needs kids … the park has a Braille sensory walk (flowers in a planter’s box along a pathway) and playground equipment for handicapped children.
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How very exciting!!
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Haha cute ! Where’s the Road Runner?
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It was a surprise to see this coyote running past this special needs park … he/she didn’t stop to try out any of the playground equipment though. 🙂 The Road Runner was already at Council Point Park, a half-mile away, screaming “meep meep” the entire time!
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hahaha !
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Love this playground…so many features. I’m not an expert in this, but it looks like an inclusive playground? I see ramps and your picture of the braille walk sign.
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You are absolutely right Esther. This is a park for special needs children with the accommodating playground equipment and also the Braille (which they spelled wrong) walk which is a “sensory walk” … a pathway along winding planter’s boxes filled with flowers. The flowers did not look very well as it was hot and they are dependent on rain only, no one waters, weeds or otherwise takes care of the flowers, so I omitted the pics.
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The equipment in this park is wonderful. How great that it is planned for special need kids. It’s amazing how far play ground equipment has come from when we were kids. Nice coyote capture! He’s brave to be wandering around in the daytime.
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It is really nice what they have created here for special needs kids Rebecca. Wheelchair access to everything and the Braille garden walk (which I didn’t include in the photos as the flowers had a lot of weeds and looked a bit scraggly). It has come a long way from what we had … basically swings and a merry-go-round, maybe monkey bars.
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What’s wrong, in my view, is the lack of people in spaces set aside for them. I presume you took these early in the day before people were up and about.
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It is surprising Anne because it was on a Saturday, mid-late morning. This park was a novelty when it was built because no other parks had accommodations for special needs children, plus they had the Braille Walk garden with high stone planter’s boxes filled with flowers, so blind children could reach out and touch and smell the flowers for a sensory experience. Most of the park playscapes come from donations from the Shriners, plus corporate sponsors and people bought personalized bricks with loved one’s names on it to raise funds for a pavilion and gazebo as well.
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“That All Can Play” is an inviting and inclusive welcome sign for this colorful playground. I bet that coyote would cause a bit of excitement if he walked by while the children were playing. 😉
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I’m a fan of the welcome sign as well. Looks like “Morning Has Broken” on a beautiful park!
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It is a beautiful park Dave and just a half-mile down the road from Council Point Park. Luckily, when Wile E. Coyote took his morning meander, the Park was empty, so no one had to be terrorized by him and he nonchalantly went on his way.
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As long as you caught my Cat Stevens reference… 😉
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I did Dave – sorry I did not mention it. I know you caught my Cat Stevens reference in the title. I really liked Cat Stevens back in the day and I am sure I must’ve worn out the grooves on my “Cat Stevens Greatest Hits” (the blue album) back in the day.
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That is a nice sign ensuring all kids can come to this park and enjoy themselves, regardless of their disabilities. It was quite a novelty when it opened up as most everything in this park came from monies raised by non-profit groups like the Lions or Shriners and they had some corporate sponsors plus individuals who bought paver bricks with their loved one’s names on it that helped build a pavilion and gazebo. The sensory garden is for blind children who can walk along the tall planter’s box filled with flowers and touch and smell them for a sensory experience. It is along the Ecorse Creek, so a nice setting, just 1/2 mile away from Council Point Park. The coyote was strolling along like he owned the place and luckily there no humans there to tell him otherwise!
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That coyote! Animals are running out of places that are natural.
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You’re right Tom … poor things. In Oakland County, people have to worry about putting their small dogs out in the backyard as several have been attacked by coyotes. It is not the first time we’ve seen coyotes in the neighborhood. They’re pretty bold too, like this one, running down busy River Drive.
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So you think coyotes don’t need to play, too? What a great photo.
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Thank you Ally. I think Wile E. Coyote could have enjoyed himself here – all ramps leading to the playscapes, no climbing. He should have had a go at ’em while he had the opportunity!
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Great photos of such a great place to play – sad to see there weren’t any children playing when you were there. I bet there are lots of smiles and laughter when there are kids there. The coyote seemed to be on a mission. Glad he didn’t head toward you to get some treats. 🤔😉
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It is a great place to play Shelley, though not always occupied and I don’t know why either … it was a beautiful day. It is an “all inclusive park” so it is designed to accommodate wheelchairs and also there is a Braille walk/sensory garden. But any kids can go there to use the playground equipment. The coyote does seem to be on a mission and yes, I’m glad he, unlike that big Mute Swan a few years ago, kept a low profile and didn’t look for treats … not sure coyotes eat peanuts. 🙂
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Hopefully when school is out the park will get more visitors.
You’re right, I haven’t heard of coyotes liking peanuts, but they do like the critters that do like peanuts. 🤔
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Yes, maybe that will happen when kids are done with school for the Summer. Sadly, that is true and what I worry about with the Cooper’s Hawks. I saw a pile of dark gray feathers on the side of the path Saturday. No body, no blood and it was not just molting.
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A busy park filled with kids will keep the Cooper’s Hawks away! 😉
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Yes, that’s true … it will send them to the neighborhoods. Sometimes I see a big shadow overhead and it is a hawk, or a turkey vulture, usually a hawk. We have a lot of crows lately. We never used to have so many crows in the ‘hood.
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That’s funny that you mention more crows. We’re seeing more this year too!
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They are everywhere … and loud!
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What do they have to talk about, I’ll never know!
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When I was in Bermuda they had a Brialle garden for the blind, with the plants chosen for texture.
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It is a nice idea Joni and it looked better when it was newly planted, but I think the garden is dependent on the rain only and I guess our scorching hot Summer took its toll.
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Some of these pictures look like they should be made into a postcard Linda. If not for the playground equipment, at first I thought they were a postcard!
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Thank you! It is a nice park Diane and when they first created it, they had this sensory walk for blind children. They had a planter’s box filled with flowers and the blind kids could walk along and touch and smell them. I believe they had markers in Braille with the plant names on them. Unfortunately the City doesn’t water the flowers and the flowers got pretty dilapidated looking. It is a playground for all kids to play which is good … kids with wheelchairs can go up and experience the playscape. Luckily there was no one, let alone kids, at this park when the coyote trotted by. 🙂
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Even at my advancing age, whenever I see a park with play equipment my eyes kind of light up just because it looks so fun. I guess some really old muscle memory is still intact.
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And the playground equipment today looks really modern after what we were used to. It’s not just a bucket seat and chains for a swing or the merry-go-round made of wood with metal grab bars or simple monkey bars. Most playscapes today look like this one and this one is for handicapped children to access on their wheelchair. At Humbug Marsh they have all natural wood playground equipment and that whole set-up looks a little weird to me. Each piece of equipment comes with a ton of warnings about parents being present when youngsters play on it.
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