Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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Linda Schaub
- Mr. & Mrs. Cardinal (and a pal) partake of peanuts at the Park. #Wordless Wednesday #A favorite vintage ornament.
- Lean, mean and green.
- Which way is Santa Claus? #Wordless Wednesday #Remember those days?
- When there’s wicked wind, wildflowers and …
- Before and after a cup of Joe. #Wordless Wednesday #Sadly, we don’t ALL rise and shine!
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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 
wonderful photography . Beautiful butterfly on flower. God bless you,Linda.
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Thank you Raj! Butterflies are very beautiful creatures … so delicate. Do you have butterflies in your country?
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Welcome,Linda. Yes, It’s so delicate.
Yes, we have butterfly our country.
When I was in school, I would show the flower-bird on the way or I would catch it, tie it with a rope and release it in the air.
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That’s good Raj – I would not want you to miss out on these beautiful creatures.
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Warm and colorful!
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Hope the pictures warmed you up Anne! How I wish I could be standing there now … it will be a while before we see these beautiful creatures again (unless of course the Groundhog comes through for us bigtime).
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Cheerful! And can’t we use some of that right about now?
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Yes we do – glad to provide some color and cheer into your day Ally. Unless the Groundhog comes through with some positive news next week, it’ll be awhile until we see flowers and butterflies.
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Thanks for this reminder of summer. Beautiful butterfly pictures!
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Thanks Laurie – glad you liked them. Sadly, it will be a while until these beautiful creatures are flitting around.
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I need more warm thoughts! 🙂
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You and me both Kate! One butterfly, although beautiful, cannot make the doom and gloom of Winter go away! Time for me to do another Summertime walk post.
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Fancy name for a butterfly! Is “swallowtail” a reference to a bird?
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Yes, it is Dave. There are other types of Swallowtail butterflies, mostly Eastern Tiger Swallowtail which are predominantly yellow and black, but all Swallowtails have hind wings that extend down. Sometimes by the end of Summer, the hind wings are often tattered. In the first picture, you can see part of the hind wing which comes to a point, like a swallow’s tail.
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Oh, that looks so warm! Just lovely, Linda.
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Glad to warm you up with this pretty butterfly Zazzy. How many months ’til we see this sight again?
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Starlings are hanging out in my big maple tree and are making me wonder what they are doing here this time of year. You think spring might come early?
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I don’t think I have seen or heard Starlings here yet, so I’d think that is a positive note. Our Robins overwinter now, so gone is the first Robin of Spring sighting that always made us so happy.
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Warm thoughts are welcome. Penny so much needs some long walks in the woods, but it’s too darn windy and cold and slippery. She’s just moaning and moping around the house, complaining that her old parents are so BORING! I love looking at hints of the summer to come, thanks!
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I thought we needed another infusion of color and warmth during the gloom and doom of Winter. I never remember a Winter with endless days of high winds being the norm, do you? Attempting a walk, on a windy day, with slippery surfaces is a recipe for disaster. They never plow the path at the Park, so my only option is to walk in the snow. Hang in there Penny – you are “young stuff” and don’t have as far to fall as Mom and Dad should you wipe out on a patch of ice.
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I think I’d rather have a Butterfinger than a butterfly. 🙂
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That sounds good JP! A Butterfinger is the perfect antidote to the doom and gloom of Winter. Unless the Groundhog gets it right on Sunday, it’ll be a long time before we see the likes of butterflies on Coneflowers.
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I feel lucky when I see a butterfly. Your photos are lovely!
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It is supposed to be lucky if one lands on you TD! I had one land on me once at the Park. Another walker saw it and knew I always had my camera with me, so she offered to take a photo. I said “thanks, but it’ll fly away when I move my arm to take the camera out to hand it to you.” That butterfly stayed on my shoulder the entire mile-long pathway. Thank you – I hope you warmed you up seeing the photos.
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Gorgeous captures! I’m ready for Spring!!
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Thanks Donna! I love seeing butterflies – this was my only Black Swallowtail last year. I am ready for Spring too and an end to the cold, snow and endless gray and gloomy days.
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Stunning, Linda! Spring is right around the, er, several corners!
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Thanks Terri! Yes, several corners and hopefully six months from now, we’ll be looking at coneflowers and butterflies with our camera lens and not just photographs of them!
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I’m ready for warm weather too! It’s not too cold where we are but it’s nothing like warm spring where you can just head outside and be in comfortable weather.
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Yes, the thing about Winter is one nice day, a day like today when we had sun and blue skies and it got to 43 (yes, makes no sense at all), gives us hope that we are inching toward spring. The days are starting to get longer … the downside is Friday we get rain, freezing rain transitioning to snow, which turns our attitude around again pretty quickly. It was cold when I went out, so I try to get ready after the furnace does a run, because if I don’t, I’m really warm by the time I get layered up, then have to stop to put on my hiking boots and lace ’em up, etc. Whew, I can’t get outside fast enough!
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Great pic of an elusive butterfly, Linda! And it’s angelic wings are in good shape! 😊
I saw a robin the other day! No Black Swallowtails though! I don’t know what these early robins are eating now, but soon they will be eating little winged creatures (before the worms are available).
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Thank you Tom! This Swallowtail is in good shape, with no tatters on its wings. My Coneflower had a few blemishes on the petals, unlike your flower which was perfect. Such a beautiful butterfly and not one I often see, mostly the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. I didn’t realize that Robins ate winged creatures, hopefully not moths and butterflies. Our Robins at the Park overwinter now. I notice it about five years ago. I had a picture of one sitting on a snow-covered branch. The problem is they get fooled by the warmer Winter a couple of years in a row and think it is the norm. This Winter, after the new year, has been rough for the birds that stayed. At the Park yesterday I saw about 50-60 geese. They were everywhere and that is unusual. We may have 15-20 at the most. With worries of the avian flu in waterfowl, this is not what we need at this Park after the County destroyed one entire side trying to enlarge the Creek last year.
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Miss Linda…………………………..It’s like a breath of Fresh Air………………….thank you
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I know Ann Marie – we need a little warmth and color in this very gray and gloomy weather, especially today with all the rain. Will this breath of fresh air tide you over until Spring arrives? Hopefully the Groundhog will give us hope on Sunday. 🙂
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What a beautiful picture Linda. Nice way to brighten up my day!
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Thank you Diane! That was the only Black Swallowtail I saw last year – they have been scarce the last few years. A preview of coming attractions if we can hold on that long!
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The body has patterns too?? Perfect symmetry. God makes wonderful designs in nature.
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Yes, amazing isn’t it Esther? When I see Monarchs with their black bodies with white polka dots I am always amazed at nature.
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The variety of them is endless! Tiny creatures with so much beauty.
I know mealworms are not the most visually appealing bugs, but their transformation from a mealworm to a beetle is amazing. Yesterday I was picking out beetles and tossing them inside a bush from Dart’s mealworm box.
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Yes it is. Years ago when Marge and I both bought Monarch butterfly “kits” to watch the tiny caterpillars grow into Monarch butterflies, it was just so amazing to see how big they got in such a short time, then forming the chrysalis. Nature is amazing. Mealworms into bugs … I forgot Dart ate them live. He must eat the larvae only, not the bugs … that’s interesting.
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