Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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Linda Schaub
- Mr. & Mrs. Cardinal (and a pal) partake of peanuts at the Park. #Wordless Wednesday #A favorite vintage ornament.
- Lean, mean and green.
- Which way is Santa Claus? #Wordless Wednesday #Remember those days?
- When there’s wicked wind, wildflowers and …
- Before and after a cup of Joe. #Wordless Wednesday #Sadly, we don’t ALL rise and shine!
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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 
This is delightful!
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Thanks Anne – after I looked at this photo, the song “Barefootin'” came to mind instantly. They were so cute, all grown up now!
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Ha! Now I have my chuckle for the day. *quack, quack*
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They sure are sweet barefootin’ across the hot cement. 🙂
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I ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️this, Linda!
Great title too!!
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Thanks TD. That song came to mind as soon as I saw this photo of those babies walking over the sidewalk. 🙂
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Awwww! love babies!
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They were so sweet all marching across the cement sidewalk – that song immediately came to mind!
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So darn cute!!!!
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They are cutie pies aren’t they, just barefootin’ across the sidewalk. 🙂 I am glad to see you here Ruth … I decided if you didn’t post anything or do a comment today, I’d leave a comment on your last post to ensure you were okay after last week’s severe weather. Hope you remained unscathed. I was okay, but Downriver got hit pretty hard as you probably heard, including Lake Erie Metropark, just 15 miles away and where I walk all the time. The tornado was on the golf course and ended up in the water. I was very worried as there were tornadoes in Gibralter, Carlton and Monroe … way too close for comfort.
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Sorry I’ve been MIA. My mind has been elsewhere. We have had a crazy month but I am putting together an August post. Can’t believe it’s over. Once again we had lots of rain, and the thunder was crazy, but we didn’t have any damage or power outages. So glad to hear that the worst of it missed you.
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Thank goodness you were unscathed as well Ruth. My heart goes out to those who suffered with any one of those tornadoes and flooding the day before. The weather these days makes me very nervous … I like this cooler weather and am sorry to see the tropical temps on the horizon.
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I think I’ll enjoy the last few days of heat – it will be cold before we know it. 🙂
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I know it … I said to another blogger, Shelley, who lives in Wisconsin and you know how brutal their Winters are, we both complain about the heat and humidity, then in January, we are more than ready for the heat and humidity. I just want to get away from Summer as we’ve had so many volatile storms.
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Ganga, you can’t help but smile at these babies barefootin’ across the cement. 🙂
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I USED to go barefootin’ like these babies. I am a tenderfoot these days, though!
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Ah youth – if only we could reclaim it! I’m a tenderfoot too Laurie. P.S. -I never endured the rigors of El Camino de Santiago like you and Bill, just the sometimes soggy and root-filled trails of SE Michigan.
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Miss Linda…………………………adorable………………..then they become adult geese whom most people dislike………………………….
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Yes, you’re right about that Ann Marie. Sadly they, like puppies and kittens and oh yes … humans, don’t stay little and cute forever. People want them off the pathway though they have as much right as we do to be there.
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Oh, so cute! 🙂
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Rebecca, those goslings looked so sweet, perfectly in sync with those webbed feet pattering across the sidewalk, I took that shot and hoped it came out okay. 🙂
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Lovely kids. Nice photoshoot.
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They are really cute, all looking the same and running in the same direction. There is an old song called “Barefootin'” – I didn’t know if you are familiar with it. That is how I got today’s blog post title. 🙂
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You send me the old song audio.
Thank you so much! really I like. Kids.
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Raj – babies are cute no matter whether they are human, feathered or furry. I will send you a video of “Barefootin'” in a separate comment, okay?
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This is the original song (to my knowledge). Note the woman dancing in her bare feet. I am more familiar with the Johnny Rivers version. Here you are Raj:
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Glad you sent this video to Raj. I listened to it too. That’s exactly how we dance here, Barefootin’!
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Glad you watched the video TD … I know there were later versions which I remember too, but this original version dancing barefoot was the best!
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Okay, Sorry. You send me my mail 💌. Thanks , Linda!
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What a darling bunch of siblings, well on their way to explore the world!
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I like how those wide webbed feet went across the cement sidewalk, in sync … hurrying along. So cute Barbara. Those goslings were actually running toward a girl who was eating and throwing out Cheddar Cheese-Its. 🙂
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Learning about the interesting foods human children have to offer! 😉
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Yes, those Cheez-its were a real draw. I was at Heritage Park recently and some very large goslings were clustered around an older gentleman who was seated on a park bench and when I went over to investigate, he was feeding them them snack crackers too. They were very interested! 🙂
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I sure hope that the pavement wasn’t too hot for those tender, little feet!
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They were running pretty fast Tom – pattering along with those cute webbed feet. They are all grown by now, big as their parents.
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They sure were cuties!!! 😊
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SO stinking cute!!! What a fun photo, Linda, nice job!
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Glad you liked them Shelley – thank you! The pitter patter of webbed feet on the hot cement. That was on Father’s Day when I took the pics for the fishing post. They were not just barefootin’ to cross the sidewalk, but a woman was tossing out Cheez-its and their parents were grabbing them up, so the goslings thought they would give it a go too. 🙂
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Yes, they were cute. Chasing Cheez-its, that’s fun. I wonder if they know better to not go on the really hot pavement? Our driveway temp was 128 yesterday. We’ve had a snake try to cross that in the past and cooked itself on the way. Yikes!
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Shelley, I think I took a pic of the guy on the bench after seeing those goslings, that were as tall as the park bench, while they were gathering around him. He told me “I was just eating some crackers and tossed out a few … there they were.” 🙂 I believe it. I was at the duck pond at Ford Park and kids were tossing out pieces of pita bread and the ducks swarmed the sandy area where the kids were.
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Resourceful birds, eh? We have a park with birds, but there are signs everywhere not to feed them. It’s fun you can spot them and catch them in the action of eating the offerings the people bring to them.
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The Metroparks have signs all over the parks and they will scold you if they catch you. When I used to go on the interpretive walks back when I first began going there in 2018, the park guides would catch someone and tell them to stop immediately as the critters rely on the food people give them then and won’t forage. I don’t even take peanuts there. A guy was feeding seagulls a huge bag of bread once at Bishop Park – seagulls converged on the boardwalk and parking lot and I don’t know where they were hiding before that.
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Ah, that makes sense. Our park has/had a sign that details what happens to the birds who eat the bread, etc. Seagulls are scavengers and go for the easy feeding no matter where they are. 😂
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I have seen those signs too Shelley at the parks and interestingly those signs and the warnings about what to feed waterfowl you see on social media seem to be more recent, like the last decade. I can remember feeding the ducks bread, as recently as when I started walking at Council Point Park (2013). Now I know it causes “angel wing” and misshapen feathers and wings so the ducks and geese cannot fly. At Dingell Park they have something interesting. There is a loudspeaker which sends out menacing (and creepy) noises every five or ten minutes – it is to keep the predator birds away from the ducks/geese/swans and songbirds that are at Dingell Park. I guess it works, but I saw a hawk there a few years ago. I turned around and it was up in a tree glaring at me … I had been preoccupied with taking shots of the ducks. 🙂
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Hopefully people are conscientious and read the signs like you do.
That’s interesting about the speaker and creepy noises. I guess if it works, YAY for the ducks/geese/swans. Maybe the hawk wanted you to take a picture of it too 🤔😂
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The speaker is very creepy. The day that I did that painting by the waterfront event, the canopy we were underneath was set up right next to the speaker … every few minutes the noise would go off. It’s funny because I’m out in big parks with the camera – what will I see (like the ospreys), then go to this little riverfront pavilion area and a big hawk is in the tree. Go figure.
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I think that you have a gift for noticing things that others may not even see. Leads to interesting blog posts 😍
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Thank you Shelley – now I am blushing!
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🥰😍🤗🤩
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I do love the goslings, they are so cute
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Yes, they are and by now, they are about as big as their parents!
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One to make you smile.
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They do look like they are having fun racing across that hot cement don’t they Barbara? A girl was tossing out Cheez-its to the adult geese and the goslings went running over there to get some too. 🙂
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Simply adorable and look at the size of their feet! Lol
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It was so cute Diane – they were racing across the cement sidewalk- you know why they were running so fast? A woman was tossing out Cheez-its to their parents and they wanted in on the action. 🙂
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Goslings on the web on the web? 🙂
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I like that JP … those cute webbed feet slapping on the hot pavement. 🙂 I was sure you’d comment on this old song “Barefootin'”.
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