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 
Aww! 🙂
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So beautiful looking alpaca 🦙! . Nice capture the looks.
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Glad you liked it Raj – they are cute animals. I was lucky that it stood there long enough to get a few poses.
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I thought it had a sweet face too Ruth and, a big plus, it did not spit on me like alpacas do sometimes!
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Perfect you photo shoot. Clean capture & State looking poses. They’re very smart & intelligent.
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They are very different and I like how they seem to study you so intently. I am amazed some people buy alpacas then board them and go visit them. People do that with horses, but you can ride horses.
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Iam so happy ! You made my morning, Linda
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So cute! I wonder if Penny would like a sibling. Ha ha.
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I thought it was cute too Dawn and it didn’t spit on me like alpacas do sometimes. 🙂 Yes, a great sibling for Penny and you could let its fur grow long instead of shearing it – “twinsies”!
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Looks like he had a hair cut! 🙂
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Yes, almost looking like a poodle here. It was so inquisitive and looked me over a couple of times, then stepped forward, then stepped back. I backed up too as they have a tendency to spit at humans sometimes! 🙂
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What a cutie, Linda! There are several alpaca farms near us.
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I thought it was cute too Terri. That alpaca spent a long time staring at me, then stepped forward, then back … I thought it was deciding whether to spit on me or not, so I stepped back too! 🙂 This alpaca farm is pretty cool. They raise them, but also board them. People buy alpacas and come to visit them there. And when they shear them, they bag the wool and then send it down South somewhere to be either dyed or just washed for a natural color. They ship it back and you can buy the wool by the alpaca’s name. They have knitting classes and also a gift shop where you can buy knitted items, again with the alpaca’s name on it. I got to know the owners and did a few posts on them. They were very nice folks.
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What a wonderful place to get in your steps! Alpacas are adorable. My niece and her husband would someday like to own an alpaca farm. There are several in our county.
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I like going there, just not on that hot of a day and when they are cleaning their stalls, etc. I was lucky this alpaca stared at me intently for a while, then stepped forward, then back … I stepped back too right around then as they often spit on humans. So far, I’ve just been stared at a lot, but not spit on. Good luck to your niece and her husband – it sounds like a fun venture.
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On a hot day, is it an alpaca sweater?
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Well I didn’t need to say “I’ll pack a sweater” especially an alpaca one. 🙂 This alpaca farm is unique in that they shear their alpacas, bag the wool with that alpaca’s name on it, then ship it off to be dyed or just washed. They ship the yarn back with the alpaca’s name on the skein, then have knitting classes and people sell their creations, with the various alpaca’s names on them, in the gift shop. I wonder if you wore a sweater or hat, if the alpaca would say “wait a minute – that was once me!”
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Nice photo and fun trip. I’ve never been to an Alpaca Farm.
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Thank you Rebecca. The people that run this place are very nice. They raise their own alpacas, plus board alpacas that belong to other people. They shear them, send the wool to be dyed or washed (for a natural look), then send it back and sell that yarn in the gift shop. Plus they have knitting classes for that yarn and sell the finished items. And they keep track of each alpaca’s wool/yarn with their name on it. I wish they had some type of nametag on them, but the owners know them by name and there were lots of them there.
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How adorable, they make for good pets.
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I think they’re cute too Diane. I didn’t know they made for good pets. Wow! I know this alpaca farm has their own alpacas that they shear for their wool and then sell the yarn (plus knitted items made from that yarn) and they have people board their alpacas here as well.
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I think I read somewhere that they can only make about $500 a year selling the wool but I may be wrong. They are very intelligent, too, if my memory serves me right.
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That is interesting. This alpaca farm also has a gift shop where they sell items that are made from their alpaca’s wool. It must be a lucrative business as those alpacas are big and it would cost a lot to feed them. In Summer they can graze on grass, but what about in the snow – guess they get grass/hay trucked in then?
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Probably or they have their own fields like the farmer’s here, they store them in huge pole barns. We buy straw for the garden from a farmer every year, Terry just bought more today.
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That makes sense Diane – they had a lot of alpacas there, so I imagine they need a steady supply of food in the Winter months. Plus they need the straw for where they live too. They had big barns for them.
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So cute! 😀 He seems mesmerized by your camera.
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I thought it was cute too Debbie. It was staring at me very intently so, when it took a step forward, I took a few steps backward. Sometimes alpacas spit on you – no spitting that day! It just wanted a photo op I guess. 🙂 It walked out in front of the others who were eating grass and not interested in me.
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Very cute! I’m glad to see that they didn’t have to “wear” a lot of fur in the heat.
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I thought it was cute too Janis. It stared at me very intently for a long time giving me plenty of time to photograph it. I’m sure it was glad to have been sheared after all the heat we have had this Summer!
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Love your Alpaca photos. Thanks for sharing with us. Happy Wordless Wednesday.
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Thank you Velva- I’m glad you liked them! They are very cute!
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Such an adorable creature! There’s an Alpaca farm near me and i will have to visit it when they have another open-house. 😊
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They really are Tom. I’ve written a couple of posts about this place. The owners are very nice and have their own alpacas that they keep and they sell the wool they shear and also have a gift shop selling woolen items from the knitting classes they have – they can tell you what alpaca the wool/yarn is from. They also have people board their alpacas there. They seem very inquisitive and will stare at you a while – but beware and don’t stand too close as sometimes they will spit on you. (No kidding Tom.) 🙂
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I love Alpacas, they are so unique looking and I like to photograph them. We have a few farms around here too as well as bison and ostrich farms
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I like going to this alpaca farm Susan – the owners are very nice and the alpacas will stare at you so intently, like this one. This was the cutest of all of them and I think it liked posing. 🙂 I got a few more pics of the others to use another time. That’s interesting about the bison and ostrich farms … I don’t think we have anything that unusual here. I would like to see that too. Someone had a lost emu a few years ago – it got out and was in a barnyard several miles away.
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I’m guessing alpacas aren’t as friendly as these photos suggest. But this one sure is photogenic!
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They are cute Dave, unsheared and sheared, like this one who WAS photogenic and seemed to like posing. It took a step forward, then a step back and just stood there. I backed up a little as I thought it might spit on me, something they do if they feel intimidated by you. I’ve been to the alpaca farm three or four times and not been spit on yet, but there’s a first for everything. 🙂
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Nice alpaca, what is its name? 😉
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It is cute, isn’t it Ally? I don’t know its name. If you go inside the fence, the owners, Gail and Richard, will come along with you and you can walk through the throng of alpacas, males in one area, females in the other area. The owners know their names, but on this day, I stayed on the outside looking in. What is fun about this alpaca farm is that in the Spring when they shear the alpacas, they bag their wool with an I.D. tag with that alpaca’s name on it. They sent it somewhere down south – some of the wool is dyed, some is just washed and remains the alpaca’s natural color – they are various colors, like cream, black, brown and mixed. Then the skeins of yard come back with the alpaca’s name on it. They have a small gift shop where they give knitting lessons. You can buy knitted gifts, mostly hats/scarves/mittens with that alpaca’s name on it. I thought that was kind of fun.
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