Bye-bye, gotta fly to Grandma’s house! #Wordless Wednesday

Posted on November 22, 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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55 Responses to Bye-bye, gotta fly to Grandma’s house! #Wordless Wednesday

  2. Kate Crimmins's avatar Kate Crimmins says:
    November 22, 2023 at 8:07 am

    Hope she didn’t make goose!

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  3. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    November 22, 2023 at 8:41 am

    Nice shot! Happy Thanksgiving, Linda!!

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  4. Zazzy's avatar Zazzy says:
    November 22, 2023 at 9:22 am

    Nice action shot! Happy Thanksgiving!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      November 22, 2023 at 8:34 pm

      Thank you Zazzy! I took a chance photographing them as they went zipping by and was pleasantly surprised when I saw the image on the screen. Happy Thanksgiving back at you!

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  5. rajkkhoja's avatar rajkkhoja says:
    November 22, 2023 at 10:57 am

    Wonderful capture!
    Happy Thanksgiving 🦃!

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  6. Dave's avatar Dave says:
    November 22, 2023 at 10:57 am

    That’s quite an action shot, Linda. Your title had me singing “Gonna Fly Now”…

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      November 22, 2023 at 8:37 pm

      Thank you Dave! They seemed to take to the sky so quickly, I took a chance getting their photo and was happy to see the image on the computer screen. That would have been a great title for this post!

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  7. trumstravels's avatar trumstravels says:
    November 22, 2023 at 11:04 am

    Happy Thanksgiving Linda !

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  9. TD's avatar TD says:
    November 22, 2023 at 7:14 pm

    Thoughts of Grandma’s pumpkin pie is giving us goosebumps!

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  10. AnnMarie R stevens's avatar AnnMarie R stevens says:
    November 22, 2023 at 9:30 pm

    Miss Linda………………………..Yahoo let’s go South it’s getting too cold over here!!

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  11. indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
    November 22, 2023 at 9:37 pm

    I hope the look out for the flying reindeer!

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  12. singlikewildflowers's avatar singlikewildflowers says:
    November 23, 2023 at 1:12 am

    Wow, Linda, this is a great photo of the birds flying! It’s hard to take a good shot of the birds’ faces when their moving fast.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      November 23, 2023 at 7:36 pm

      Thanks Esther! That was a lucky shot for me. I heard them and then they were gone in a heartbeat. I was happy to see I got them when I saw the image on the computer screen. And one bird’s bill was open – was he/she telling the other ones where to veer off perhaps?

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      • singlikewildflowers's avatar singlikewildflowers says:
        November 25, 2023 at 4:30 pm

        I find so many surprises when I look at the image again, after the picture is taken. Remember that one time I thought a vulture was picking on a piece of thrown away carpet? Only to see later that it was a deer carcass.

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
        November 25, 2023 at 7:50 pm

        Yes, because in real time you are just looking thru the camera and can’t see everything else. I was really happy to see this trio of geese on the screen and one even had it mouth open. I remember twice taking pictures of the Lotus Beds, then going thru photos later, on two occasions, then seeing Wood Duck babies on the screen. I remember your post and it would be shocking to hone in and see it was deer carcass.

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      • singlikewildflowers's avatar singlikewildflowers says:
        November 26, 2023 at 1:57 am

        You saw duck babies?! It’s always a treat to get pictures like that.
        I know…we were all horrified to see that it was a deer carcass. We went back a year later and in another spot we found another deer carcass. We knew what it was when we saw it this time, although the camouflage can make you miss it easily. It’s a trailed park path, but it’s a protected wildlife sanctuary with rigged hills. I guess that’s part of the wildlife food chain.

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
        November 26, 2023 at 8:01 pm

        That wildlife food chain is hard to take sometimes isn’t it Esther? I hope I never see a hawk snatch up one of my furry friends. I was walking one day in the neighborhood, several years ago and I heard a horrible screeching noise. I looked up and saw a Peregrine Falcon in pursuit of a medium-sized bird. That bird was shrieking its head off. I wish I had not looked up – the noise continued, then stopped I assume when the Falcon got his prey. Were we following one another when Grady, my cute gray “neighborhood squirrel” and his friends became prey for a hawk in the ‘hood? I asked my neighbor if he’d seen Grady and was sorry I asked … it was in the Spring of 2020, early on in the pandemic and my neighbor was home and saw the hawk in the tree eyeing the squirrels which I fed on my porch. I was especially partial to Grady.

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      • singlikewildflowers's avatar singlikewildflowers says:
        November 28, 2023 at 2:33 am

        Oh my, the food chain is cruel, and to think that’s how it life continues. It’s terrible to hear animals shrieking…we heard a mama bird shrieking when a cat stole off with a baby bird. The commotion and the shrieking was sad.
        I hope you never see a hawk snatch up one of your furry friend!! My goodness, that would be difficult to erase from one’s mind. I do remember you mentioning how Grady, whom you had just fed, became the hawk’s meal.

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
        November 28, 2023 at 8:26 pm

        Yes, it is. I follow a Facebook site where photographers post pictures from our State’s 13 Metroparks. I see a lot of waterfowl with frogs and fish in their mouths, where the prey is still wiggling. Someone posted a Hawk with a vole. Ugh. But as you say, I don’t know those critters/prey. It upset me about Grady and I hope I don’t see it at the Park – ever. This Spring a male Red-winged Blackbird dive bombed me, coming closer and closer to me as I walked along the path. The first time I thought it was jumping the gun for a peanut – they swoop down, as do the Jays, Cardinals and Woodpeckers, so I thought that was why … but then I saw something laying on the path ahead. As I got closer I realized it was a dead baby bird, almost fully feathered. It knew I didn’t kill that bird, but I guess it didn’t want me near it and I assume it was his offspring. So I gave it wide berth and another walker saw me later on the path and said the first time around the walking path, the Blackbird did the same thing to him … he chose to walk around a second time. I did not and went to the other side of the Park to walk. It was sad to see this father protecting its young, even in death. Th body was gone the next day.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      November 24, 2023 at 8:34 pm

      Thank you Linda – that was a lucky shot for me. The seemed to come out of nowhere, so I fumbled to take the shot and was happy to see it wasn’t blurred on the screen. 🙂

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  14. Ally Bean's avatar Ally Bean says:
    November 24, 2023 at 10:50 am

    You know your blog is just going to the birds lately! 😜

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      November 24, 2023 at 8:39 pm

      You’re so right Ally. In the Spring I wondered if I could get enough bird pictures, or critter pictures, to use for Wordless Wednesday until the end of the year. So far, so good and most of them are birds. I have a few more bird posts to do until year end. This was a lucky shot for me – I figured they’d be a blur, so I was pleasantly surprised.

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  15. Terri Webster Schrandt's avatar Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    November 25, 2023 at 6:48 pm

    What a great shot, Linda! Somehow you caught them smiling in anticipation! Hope your Thanksgiving was relaxing. All our family hub-bub is over–I’m relaxing and catching up!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      November 25, 2023 at 8:22 pm

      Thanks Terri – it was a lucky shot for me. I figured it would be a blur and was pleasantly surprised when I saw the image on the screen. The goose in the front had its bill open – giving directions perhaps? We had great weather for three days but we’re getting some snow tonight which is too bad, but I got the rest of the yard put to bed just in time. I know your hub-bub was happy – hope you saw and photographed some eagles.

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  16. Shelley@QuaintRevival.com's avatar Shelley@QuaintRevival.com says:
    November 29, 2023 at 6:44 am

    That’s a cool photo – nice bokeh effect!

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  17. J P's avatar J P says:
    December 10, 2023 at 9:51 pm

    Well, take a gander at those!

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