Rocky start to the morning.  #Wordless Wednesday #Ouch!

Posted on November 8, 2023 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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36 Responses to Rocky start to the morning.  #Wordless Wednesday #Ouch!

  1. rajkkhoja's avatar rajkkhoja says:
    November 8, 2023 at 5:49 am

    Wonderful ouch is Rockstar. Beautiful photography.

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  4. Ally Bean's avatar Ally Bean says:
    November 8, 2023 at 11:27 am

    Beautiful group. Seems like they know how to live on the rocks.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      November 8, 2023 at 6:54 pm

      I was torn which picture to put up top Ally – I liked the group of them, yet the photo of the pair was up close, so they won out. I wanted to call the post “On the Rocks” but I used it in the past.

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  5. Terri Webster Schrandt's avatar Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    November 8, 2023 at 5:34 pm

    Great shots, Linda! I’m sure their flexible feet endure the rocks well!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      November 8, 2023 at 7:33 pm

      Thanks Terri – I really singled this pair out as they barely moved, like they were sentries watching out for the rest of the group. They got spooked eventually and those two left, followed by the others. I am always amazed at just how big and sturdy the gosling’s feet are when I see them up close, even when they are only a few days old.

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  6. TD's avatar TD says:
    November 8, 2023 at 5:37 pm

    Yoga morning instructor perhaps?

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  7. Prior...'s avatar Prior... says:
    November 8, 2023 at 10:58 pm

    Ah, such nature beauty and I love the idea of doing yoga on the rocks – I am glad I read that in the comments and went back and saw it even more in the pictures. Tree pose or maybe Bird of paradise – hahahah
    (hope you are doing well and missed ya)

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      November 9, 2023 at 7:42 pm

      Hi Yvette – welcome back. I missed you too. 🙂 I wasn’t thinking so much about yoga as maybe it was uncomfortable, so shifting from foot to foot. Yoga works for me for a reason they’re shifting feet!

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  8. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    November 9, 2023 at 8:12 am

    It doesn’t look like the most comfortable of places to have spent the night!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      November 9, 2023 at 7:49 pm

      No, it didn’t at all Barbara. In fact, I saw about a dozen geese on those rocks and thought it would make a nice photo and, in the end I was sorry I ventured over there with all the rocks, much bigger than river rocks and difficult to walk on (for me).

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  9. AnnMarie R stevens's avatar AnnMarie R stevens says:
    November 9, 2023 at 1:23 pm

    Miss Linda…………………………………I guess geese like the warmth of the rocks………………………………………………….

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  11. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    November 9, 2023 at 11:17 pm

    Great pics, Linda! 😊
    I went grocery shopping at Walmart today. There were tons of Canada geese at the pond by Walmart. It looked like the movie “The Birds.” Maybe (and hopefully) they are not flying south because they know that it’s going to be a mild winter. That would be great! Birds really do sense things…

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      November 10, 2023 at 7:14 pm

      Thanks Tom. I was lucky to find all those Canada geese grouped together and the pair out front early one morning at Lake Erie Meropark. There are lots of geese there and they do look magnificent in V-formation, then splashing down into the water. I always look up when I hear them honking. I’ll bet you are right how the geese sense this climate change and a warmer Winter on the horizon. You can probably remember when seeing the first Robin in Spring was a welcome sign – now our Robins stay in Michigan all year around and I often see them perched on a snow-covered branch and eating berries in the dead of Winter. Now it is the Red-winged Blackbirds that return in early Spring from warmer climates.

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  12. Robin's avatar Robin says:
    November 10, 2023 at 11:08 am

    Wonderful images! I love how they can balance so well standing on one leg (and even sleep while they’re doing it!).

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      November 10, 2023 at 7:29 pm

      Thank you Robin! I’m amazed at how they sleep on one leg, head tucked under their wing as well. I often go to a park where there is a man-made pond and if I get there early enough, all the Mallards and Canada Geese are sleeping like that, with the exception of the “Lookout Duck and Goose” who watch over their sleeping brethren.

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  13. Shelley@QuaintRevival.com's avatar Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
    November 10, 2023 at 4:59 pm

    Great photos and a clever title! Did you practice standing on one foot too? 😉😂 Do you remember what captured their attention for them all to be looking in that direction?

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      November 10, 2023 at 7:26 pm

      Thank you Shelley! I wanted to use “On the Rocks” for a title but I’d used it once already for a Wordless Wednesday post – huge slabs of ice had broken apart in the Detroit River and slammed up against the boulders at the seawall. Someone said “Rock Star” and I’ll tuck that away, maybe for Spring when Mama Goose sits on her nest in the big boulders at Heritage Park. No, I don’t recall what they were all looking at – there were some fisherman in a small boat but not that close. I’ve never been to that area of Lake Erie Metropark and I saw them and walked over. I also got some silhouette pics and a Black-headed Tern (my first sighting of that bird) the same day. So it was a lucrative zig zag to make. 🙂

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  15. J P's avatar J P says:
    November 17, 2023 at 1:57 pm

    I must apologize, but I don’t think I will ever become a fan of the Canada Goose, at least as things exist at present. Those things have far exceeded their natural habitat and are the animal kingdom’s equivalent of an invasive species.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      November 17, 2023 at 7:55 pm

      I know there are a lot of people who live near the water who would not care if they ever saw another Canada goose. When I walk on Grosse Ile, with their large mansions along East River Road and huge boats docked at the Detroit River near those homes, you can’t help but notice lots of geese traipsing around on their property. When Council Point Park closed down the month of April 2020 due to the pandemic, the geese had the run of the Park, its picnic areas and pavilion with no humans around … it was really a mess on paths and pavilion areas when we were allowed to walk there again. The geese are protected here in Michigan, but may be hunted. The Mute Swans are also protected but considered invasive as they eat a lot of aquatic plants, thus destroying habitats for turtles and other small creatures. People cannot hunt swans and to remove the swans, their nests and eggs from your property requires a special permit.

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  16. singlikewildflowers's avatar singlikewildflowers says:
    November 21, 2023 at 3:36 am

    What are they looking at so intently?!

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