Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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Linda Schaub
- Salute to Heart Month! #Wordless Wednesday #A pair of bees in a “Wishes ‘n Dreams” Dahlia.
- An affinity for ducks.
- Two’s company; three’s a crowd. #Wordless Wednesday. #Canada Geese
- Winter weather weary? Let’s revisit Summer!
- You DID remember today is Squirrel Appreciation Day, right? #Wordless Wednesday #Some of my peanut pals from Council Point Park
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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 
Very nice.
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Thank you.
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I would love to see wild turkeys 🙂
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I wish I could see more of them Anne. These were at a park, but people in rural areas see them just roaming around sometimes in the neighborhoods, often in a group. I wish he/she would have turned around for a close-up. 🙂
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Just passing by, so I’ll be on my way. 🦃🦃🦃
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Yes – I don’t think he/she wanted to linger too long. 🙂
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A one-bird turkey trot?
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I think it was sorry it crossed the path so close to me that day as I might have been one of those dreaded hunters, not interested in the aesthetic beauty of its plumage, but just eyeing it for the main course.
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We would get the occasional wild turkey at our last house. They clean up under the bird feeders.
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My neighborhood and Council Point Park is not rural enough to get any wild turkey visitors, but the homeowners in other suburbs see groups of them strutting around their front and backyards. This was the first time I ever saw one at Elizabeth Park and it surprised me as that park gets a lot of visitors.
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😂🤣😂 Linda, very funny! I bought a three lbs butterball boneless turkey breast and stuffing makings at the beginning of the month I thought that I would bake it and just just eat a little, then freeze the rest for individual homemade frozen dinners and of course Thanksgivings Day. But… NO. It was so delicious that Yorkie and I gobbled the whole darn turkey the first week of November!
I still have some makings for homemade dressing. Yorkie and I will be gobbling boneless chicken breast on Turkey Day, instead. Our tradition is to watch the Macy’s float parade followed by the National Dog Show. I absolutely love the Dog Show!!!
What will you be doing on Turkey Day?
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Thank you TD, I am glad you liked that headline. 🙂 My mom and I used to go to a buffet on Thanksgiving, but the restaurant closed up, then we just stayed home and she made the same meal as you. We both liked white meat so we enjoyed it very much. I will just make a crock pot meal tomorrow and I will put Stove Top stuffing as one layer, just like I would usually do with noodles. We were supposed to get some snow tonight and into Thursday morning, but they have backed off that prediction now as it will go to Ohio instead of Michigan. Whew! We have the America’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Detroit. It is a three-mile route and begins at 8:45 a.m. They were worried as we have had very gusty winds for days on end and also the predicted light snow, which would have caused the “big head paper mache characters to not participate in the parade as the moisture damages them – some are vintage character heads.
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I think she is heading to Canada!
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You are probably right Wayne – she says “I’m not ending up stuffed and sitting on someone’s Thanksgiving dinner table!”
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I suspect they all walk into the States a week before OUR Thanksgiving and then they all walk back across when your Thanksgiving is coming up!
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That sounds like a good plan Wayne! I was at Lake Erie Metropark one time during duck hunting season and there is duck hunting nearby at Humbug Marsh and also at Point Mouilee. I could hear shots ringing out and a guy walked by and saw me taking photos of some ducks swimming in the marsh and he said “you know, these ducks are smart and stay put – wonder if they could clue their buddies why they are here?”
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Happy Thanksgiving, Linda!
We are at our son’s house in Oregon. There is a flock of wild turkeys here that roams the neighborhood. They are beautiful!
I hope none of them wind up on a Thanksgiving table. They won’t be on ours – my son and daughter-in-law are vegetarians!
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Thank you Laurie and the same to you. Lucky you and Bill spending Thanksgiving in Oregon. I remember once you gathered the entire family at a resort for Thanksgiving. I would love to see a flock of wild turkeys – this one was crossing the path at Elizabeth Park. Had I not been looking at those singing frogs, I would have gotten a close-up of it as it crossed right in front of me! I was distracted by the frogs’ singing! The turkey said “whew, a human who is enamored with frogs, not me!” I’m glad your son and daughter-in-law are vegetarians too. I’m glad none of those beautiful birds are on the Thanksgiving table.
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We have a wild turkey in our little neighborhood, Linda. Poor girl needs a mate!
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How fun! We never have any fun here, unless you want to count the groundhog who dug a BIG burrow in my backyard last year. I’d like to see a wild turkey or two. This one was at a park and I was distracted by some singing frogs and turned around to see that turkey had crossed right in front of me! I guess I was a turkey too! If I see it again, I’ll send it your way. I hope book sales are brisk! Happy Thanksgiving Pam.
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Thanks 🙏Linda!
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He (or she) looks pretty scrawny… I don’t think there is any danger that it will end up on anyone’s Thanksgiving table. 🙂
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, Linda!
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You know, maybe it had a plan to slim down to stay safe and off the Thanksgiving table. 🙂 Same to you Janis!
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Perfect! Happy Thanksgiving, Linda!
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Thank you Ruth – I’m sure it thought I was too close for comfort! Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family Ruth.
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We had the same idea for our WW posts today! Happy Thanksgiving, Linda!
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I just took a quick peek at your post – great minds think alike Terri! You did say you have something fun for today. Your turkey on the ground was a great close-up. I, however, was distracted by the pool of water and singing frogs and the next thing I knew this turkey had streaked by me and was on the other side of the path! Same to you Terri.
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We have a lot of turkeys around here, too. Since it rained last night, I encountered lots of turkey tracks around the property and down our dirt road.
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I wouldn’t mind to see a flock of wild turkeys around these parts – we do have them in the more rural areas. I see maybe one a year in the larger parks. I’d have gotten a better shot of it as it crossed my path, but I was enamored by the singing frogs to my left.
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Happy Thanksgiving day. ,Linda. Beautiful Turkey. You celebrate Turkey day.
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Thank you Raj!
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Welcome, Linda! 🤠
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Run Turkeys Run ! lol Happy Thanksgiving to you Linda 🙂
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They need their running shoes when Thanksgiving nears! Thank you Susan!
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Happy Thanksgiving, Linda! Smart gobbler, getting outta there. 😆 We don’t see any wild turkeys around here – too urban.
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Thank you Debbie. Yes, he/she was smart getting away. I don’t see any gobblers in my area either, but the more-rural cities around here see them all the time. This was at Elizabeth Park and it was the first time I ever saw one there … usually is it just squirrels, geese and ducks. I’d have gotten a better shot, as it crossed right in front of me, except I was watching a puddle in the grass with singing frogs and taking photos of them, then turned around and saw this guy. A few years ago, I was on a trail where I had seen a couple of turkeys before and I was looking for some for my Thanksgiving post. I was looking everywhere, didn’t see them, then I turned around and five or fix deer were having a little parade in front of me, likely taking advantage of my back being turned. You have to have eyes at the back of your head (like moms do to watch their kids).
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They are so elusive around where i live. There are tons of hunters in this area… so they justifiably flee from humans. I’m glad that i am mostly vegetarian (though i do eat fish now).
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I don’t see them around here much either Tom. If I’m lucky, sometimes they are wandering around the edge of a large park. I remember you were vegetarian. I no longer eat red meat, just fish mostly, some chicken.
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Hoping your Thanksgiving was a good one. We rarely see wild turkeys around here. The Butterball ones are ubiquitous, of course. 😉
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It was quiet Ally – I hope yours was enjoyable. I was happy we avoided the big storm, but it was dicey out this morning. I wouldn’t mind seeing more of these wild turkeys, but they are either in larger parks or in rural areas. Sometimes I’m just lucky, like this time, but I was checking out the singing frogs in a pool of water in the grass when this turkey walked across my path and I could have gotten a closer picture of it.
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What a brave sole to be out and about this time of the year! Love your picture Linda!
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Yes, he/she was taking chances for sure Diane! Thank you!
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I hope you were spared, butterball!!! If you did not meet your demise for Thanksgiving, it’s all good from here. Turkey dinner season is over.
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I hope it was spared too Esther. Yes, people are thinking ham now so if you’re a pig, better try and hide. 🙂
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Turkeys and pigs, beware in the month of November!! Yikes, we had both turkey and ham. I can’t eat it anymore.
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Yes, with only four in your family, having both a turkey and a ham, you won’t want to see it for awhile. Maybe make soup with the ham? My mom and I just got a turkey breast the last few years after our rib place had new owners and they closed Thanksgiving and the restaurant with the buffet we sometimes went to for Thanksgiving or Easter went out of business. At Christmas we sometimes got the 1/4 ham at Honey Baked Ham and my mom made split pea or bean soup with the rest of the ham.
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