Dare to be different!  #Wordless Wednesday #Sunday Stills: Plant Life

Posted on June 26, 2024 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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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28 Responses to Dare to be different!  #Wordless Wednesday #Sunday Stills: Plant Life

  2. Anne says:
    June 26, 2024 at 7:03 am

    An apt and pretty picture!

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  3. Dave says:
    June 26, 2024 at 7:46 am

    This works for me 😉

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  5. Laurie says:
    June 26, 2024 at 9:52 am

    So pretty! I always appreciate pansies in the spring. Although this year, pansies bloomed all winter in the landscaping at our local shopping center. Orange and purple is my favorite combination.

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      June 26, 2024 at 7:37 pm

      I love pansies too Laurie. They are always so perky looking. With the mild Winter I wonder if other annuals would have made it through the Winter too? I like that combo for petunias too. My neighbor’s Magnolia bush is in full bloom, unbelievably for the third time this year! I know it did not do that in the past – once in late April/early May and done!

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  6. Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    June 26, 2024 at 10:58 am

    How cool, Linda, a volunteer pansy among the orange flower group!

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  8. Kate Crimmins says:
    June 26, 2024 at 4:23 pm

    There is always one different one in every group! 🙂

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  9. TD says:
    June 26, 2024 at 5:31 pm

    Ha, ha, ha, dare to be different! That’s the one that will make certain stage!!

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  10. Ally Bean says:
    June 27, 2024 at 8:27 am

    Love this. Of course I’m one to be the outlier in many situations.

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      June 27, 2024 at 8:12 pm

      Glad you like it Ally. I feel the same way … maybe because Mom drummed it into my head countless times: “why do you want to be like everyone else – have a mind of your own!” Or the old standby: “if everyone else jumps off the bridge, do you have to follow?”

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  11. AnnMarie R stevens says:
    June 27, 2024 at 1:27 pm

    Miss Linda………………………….Love the individuality……………………..

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  12. Zazzy says:
    June 27, 2024 at 8:22 pm

    We had volunteer pansies for years. One popping up in a crack in the driveway here. Another showing up in a flowerbed somewhere else. I always found them delightful and so is that one. But tell me true, was there a whole group of purple pansies growing just to the right? Whatever is true, it is a delightful photo!

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    • Linda Schaub says:
      June 28, 2024 at 10:29 pm

      I would love to find volunteer pansies popping up somewhere. When we first moved here my father ordered some tulip bulbs from Holland. He planted them in the Fall and in the Spring when he did yard clean-up, he found tulip bulbs with gnaw marks all over the yard – squirrels. But they missed one tulip bulb that was under he Birch tree (it’s gone now, succumbed to a birch disease). So, while it was not a volunteer flower showing up in an odd place, it showed up year after year, a solo yellow tulip that the squirrel missed. Nope, it was in a planter at the entrance of the Botanical Gardens. It was the only purple flower in that tall planter. And, on the other side of the entrance to the Gardens was an identical planter, with all the same gold-colored flowers, but no purple pansy!

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  13. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    June 27, 2024 at 8:23 pm

    Daring to be different is great but not by putting a million tattoos on one’s body or putting metal all over one’s face. Be different psychologically (by being of profound insight, compassion, and wholeness). 😉

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