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 
I loved that progression, being close and moving back. All the photographs are gorgeous. Then I got to the turtle, and I laughed. It is so cute!
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Glad you liked the photographs Anne. Emily Frank Gardens is really a lovely place, all planted/maintained by volunteers. The turtle is very cute!
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The first photo had me baffled for a moment 🤔😀
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Ha ha – I debated on whether to use that photo as the featured image or not. All you see is eyes and the pond lily leaf when you look at the photo. 🙂
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Awww, pond pictures! Love the turtle!
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I promised and delivered you some pond pictures – glad you liked them Kate. This is at Emily Frank Gardens, all maintained by volunteers and there is a guy who is the only one that takes care of the pond. The turtle is cute and I’m wondering if water is supposed to come out of its mouth since it’s open?
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Looks like it would spray water.
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I’m thinking that too. It was early Sunday morning and the volunteers don’t come to the Gardens on Sunday, so likely nothing was turned on. I’ll have to pop by one day when they’re there and check it out. I don’t usually take photos when they’re there as most of the watering is done by hand so they have hoses everywhere and also they try to recruit you as a volunteer if you linger. 🙂
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That turtle is a hoot. Great photos.
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Thanks Ally! Glad you liked the photos. I like that turtle too … you sure can’t lose him/her with all those bright colors.
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Some fish are bold and aggressive, but these seem more koi. 🙂
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Now why didn’t I think of that JP? It is better than me insinuating they are playing peekaboo. We’ve got coy ducks, so why not coy koi?
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Gorgeous pics, Linda, happy 5 years of Wordless Wednesday!
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Thanks Terri! Glad you like the pond pics. I have been having a lot of fun with Wordless Wednesday and it’s been a continuous run since the beginning of the pandemic.
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At first I thought the koi in the first picture was holding a disk in its mouth. It took a bit to figure it out. 🙂
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You know Janis, I always put some thought into what picture should be the featured image and I debated on using that photo. I thought it was unusual, but I have to admit, at first glance all you see is eyes and something flat. 🙂
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Fabulous photos, Linda, and happy five years!!
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Thank you Donna! At the beginning of the pandemic I thought it would be fun to use my favorite photos from my walks for Wordless Wednesday and thus shorten up my posts, which have been long since almost the beginning, so this was my solution.
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Wow, what a Fabulous photos,! I love fish 1& 2. You always New topic & New place sharing,Linda 😉
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Thank you Raj! I’m glad you like the photos of the pond. Do people like to have fish ponds in their gardens in your country? I like to have a little fun with my Wordless Wednesday topics – I’m glad you enjoy seeing the variety of them. 🙂
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Most welcome ,Linda! Yes, people liketo have fish ponds. Iam so glad & happy.
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Happy 5 year anniversary to WW! I always look forward to your Wednesday photo/s and you give them the wittiest titles.
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Thank you Esther! I started my Wordless Wednesday posts the week the pandemic began, thinking to take the edge off this “new normal” a little by showcasing some of my funny and/or pretty photos which otherwise would get lost in my very long posts.
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It’s a great way to showcase your photos! So glad you started and your writing schedule is easy to follow: one long post followed by a WW.
Hope you have a great weekend! It’s spring.
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Thank you – it has been fun. Before I started this schedule, I posted at all different times … I even used to have a couple of features called “Tuesday Musings” and “Friday Frivolity”. You have a good weekend too Esther. We have some cold weather out there the next two weeks – ugh.
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Happy 5th WW anniversary! Your colourful pond photos are cheery and festive. 😀 Cool turtle!
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Thank you Debbie! I’m happy to provide some Summery cheer as we experience this setback in Spring’s arrival. I like that turtle too – it’s as colorful as the flowers and the fish. I started my WW posts the week the pandemic started, thinking I could do some fun posts in this “new normal” and use it to showcase funny critter pictures or even nice pictures that otherwise would get lost in my long blog posts.
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Congrats on the 5 year anniversary! I love the Painted Turtle species… and the one you photographed is truly painted! 😉
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Thank you Tom! I started doing Wordless Wednesdays the beginning of the pandemic and it gives me a chance to use some of my funny animal/bird pictures or nice pictures that would otherwise get lost in a long, picture-laden post. So, a win-win for me. This turtle takes being a Painted Turtle up a notch – it is so bright, I’m sure it glows in the dark! 🙂
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Waterlilies are always a delightful subject for photography.
Btw, I love your background pattern on your blog! A style that I try to practice when I am making patterns.
Cheers,
Amanda
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Yes, they are beautiful flowers aren’t they Amanda? This huge garden and its pond is totally run by volunteers and they do a wonderful job. Thank you! As to the background, it is the Twenty Ten theme and I chose it when I began my blog in 2013 because it looked the easiest! I have never changed it and hope they don’t do away with it in favor of more modern/complicated themes.
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Ah the Twenty Ten theme. I thought I recognized it. I used to have that theme on my blog – which I believe started around the same time or maybe a year or so earlier. I recognized your name from the early days when I was writing a comment on someone else’s blog ( can’t remember who ) and thought I was pop over. I am really glad to see some more ‘old timers’ if I can use that word, still blogging like me. I am thinking of moving to Substack but the change is a bit of a mind shift!
I now have the Dara theme on my blog as some weird things started happening with the text on the screen when I was using Twenty Ten. It looked fine for me but others were telling me it didn’t show up right. But yours looks fine! I might have another look.
The pattern is awesome!
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I’m glad it shows up fine and you think it is awesome Amanda because I created my blog on Windows 7 with a smaller screen, then last year I was forced to go to a higher platform (Windows 11) and I got a larger screen (that two inches from 15 inches to 17 inches makes a difference) after WordPress changed some things when they put in AI features. I could no longer create a post and when I saw my blog on Windows 11 at 100%, there was a lot of background. I thought it doesn’t look right, but sometimes it’s best to “not fix it, if it’s not broken” so I’ve left it.
I may have seen your name on Anne Mehrling’s blog comments, when scrolling through to comment back when we had to scroll to the bottom to comment.
I am at an age, 68 now – for the next month anyway, where there is enough change going on that I HAVE to live with, that I don’t want to purposely create change unnecessarily. Maybe that is laziness, but I don’t think so. 🙂
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I hear you Linda. Change of the technical kind is harder to cope with as we get older ( 63 for me) – and I resist updating phones for that reason. I almost had a breakdown when i had to change from a samsung to a pixel phone – they were so vastly different. And everything is on an app now – so there was a lot to change as it is linked to a particular device! Ughh… Technology.
So I can absolutely see why we should leave something that is working fine! Well done! Yes, I also follow Anne. I like that bloggers have overlaps and that there is a core community out there that is similar in their blog preferences.
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I know that some people tweak their blogs all the time, even to go with the seasons. I’d worry that once I changed the theme, if I didn’t care for the new layout, I would not be able to return to my prior blog theme and it would take a long time to fix everything. The only thing I have added since I began my blog in 2013 is to add the photo gallery. I need to update that as it’s been years since I added it. I am not high tech with a phone, but more hands on with computers, but that’s only because my boss and I left a law firm and went out on our own, so all of a sudden there was no computer guy to call and he would come over and fix things. So I had to learn a lot, then I worked from home from 2011 to 2024, so more things to deal with, especially after our system crashed shortly after I began working off site. I had to type everything from scratch until the new system was up and running again.
I have been following Anne for a while – her blog popped up because she had done a post about walking in her neighborhood, so “walking” caused her blog to appear at the end of my post and I followed her.
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I am wondering if our mutual blogging friend is Pedantry?
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Ye, Pedantry, although I haven’t heard from him for ages. Is he still blogging? I suspect we crossed each other blogging paths well before that- perhaps in various photo or blogging challenges ?
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I haven’t heard from Pedantry either. I got a tip on my About page from Pedantry that I should link my Gravatar to my blog and we had a little back-and-forth. I looked and that interaction was back in 2018. I just clicked on his gravatar and he has not written much, but he did write in February this year after a lapse of time. Actually the first and only blogging challenges I’ve participated in is Terri Webster Schrandt’s Sunday Stills Challenge and I’ve only been doing that for about 18 months. She would occasionally link a post I’d done, usually Wordless Wednesday, then asked me to participate, so that’s it though. I can kind of tailor my walks or miscellaneous posts to Terri’s Challenges.
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Good to know that Pedantry is still blogging. I will pop over and check him out.
There are many blogs that I have to search for in the reader as their Gravatar wasn’t linked to their blog.
Sunday Stills and Wordless Wednesday are also fun challenges, but I rarely do them these days.
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It sounds like Pedantry has become involved in other projects besides blogging. I wonder if I got unsubscribed to him, because I didn’t see the February post. I will see and also I’d like to subscribe to you – bear with me as I’m sometimes late with comments and my “like” button does not work. 🙂
Marsha is someone who runs a blog challenge, but I don’t follow her and she asked me to join a while back, but with work, I said I could not – since my blog is about walking (well most of the time), there is walking, then taking pictures, writing about the longer walks … that was taking enough time as it is. I have been retired almost one year and truly, I have not accomplished very many things I was happy to start doing. In fact, I wanted to study French again as I enjoyed it while in school. Today it is Day #150 studying French and there was a review of words/phrases from several months ago and I did horribly. It is getting more difficult, more grammar and quite honestly, the fun part has gone and it has become a chore now. I doubt I will travel again, though I enjoyed it when younger, so while I don’t like being a quitter, with nicer weather finally on the horizon, I am not sure I can devote the 60 to 90 minutes I’ve been devoting to French.
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I hear you on the language practice, Linda, as I’ve been studying German. I have a leg up with some of the Danish words that I know, which are the same in German, but for some reason, it just doesn’t stick like language did years ago. I persist because learning a language is good for an older brain. Maybe that’s the challenge of it the remembering of the words doesn’t come as easily, and so we have to work at it which helps stimulate parts of the brain that we don’t get stimulated anymore.
It is no good if it’s become a chore – we have limited time to spend on hobbies so we may as we’ll do the ones that bring us the most pleasure.
It would be lovely to have you subscribe to my blog, but I quite understand if there is no time for this. Bloggers follow so many blogs, and so many people follow us it is impossible to subscribe to every one of them and read them regularly.
We do what we can. Cheers,
Amanda
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Amanda, I am Canadian, but have lived here since 1966. Studying French was mandatory in Canada and I took it for four or five years, then not again until college. I enjoyed it, memorized the vocabulary and the verb conjugations and it “stuck” in my brain. The last two years of college we had no books to study from as we spoke only in French while in class and discussed current events or gave oral and written book reports. I had hoped to recreate some of that magic about re-learning French and also because it is good for your brain to learn new things. I’m not going to quit, but I admit I have to devote considerably less time to it … tonight I was glad to leave the lesson to be honest.
I thought after I retired I’d keep up better; once I was 14 days behind in Reader, then we had a bad ice storm and I had no internet for three days. I don’t access blogs on a phone, so it took me weeks to eventually catch up. Yes, we do what we can and blogging has been a great way to meet people from around the world. I had no idea it would be such a satisfying hobby. I started my blog because my late neighbor/friend asked me to as I always wrote her e-mails or Facebook messages about where I went on my walk that day and I would send her pictures. She had COPD and was on a large oxygen machine and rarely left her home anymore, so I did it for her. I had no fellow bloggers that followed me, only three friends the first four years, so it has been quite an experience.
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6 is really kind of you to start a blog for someone else! Blogging is satisfying- I agree and while it took me to a new career after early retirement – I wrote for publications, the most enjoyment I get is writing personal blog posts. It is like speaking to a friend that is always keen to listen!
I think you would be far more competent than me in speaking another language!
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Amanda, my friend/neighbor Marge kept sending me other posts from other people she followed, all on different platforms and kept saying “read this, you can tell more people about your walks, write about walking.” So I did it to be nice as she was a good friend and neighbor and after my mom passed away in 2010, we became close. But I did not do it for me at all. She passed away in 2017 so I wish she could see how many photos I take and read my blog now that is filled with more nature posts than when she was still here.
That’s exciting that blogging took you to a job writing for publications! I am just the opposite because I have a degree in Mass Communications (Print Journalism) and never found a job in that field. I worked at an ad agency for about 18 months, but we lost our major account and I had a mentor who was going to help me get up the ladder to a junior copywriter position, but he left, as did most of the writers in the Creative Department where I was a secretary. So, for me, blogging is the writing career I never had. I really enjoy writing. I agree that blogging is very satisfying.
Interestingly, the French I learned back in the 70s (I graduated from college in 1978) is not the same French I learned. The speech is definitely not as formal as what I learned, even what I learned as a youngster. And words and phrases that I remember are not necessarily the same. Plus, there are new words like cellphone, computer, videos … just three words, but there are others related to technology that don’t come to mind. Like you thinking that having knowledge of Danish words might help you learning German, I similarly thought I had a leg up on learning French. The words I remember are some I learned as a kid, like colors, farm animals and food. We had pictures of scenes, like a park, a farm, a restaurant or grocery store and the teacher had a large roll-down picture and we did not use books, but memorized the words in the scene and when we learned them and were quizzed on them and used them in sentences, we moved on to the next “scene” – that’s how we learned.
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The way you describe learning a language with scenes and words would be, for me, as a visual learner, easier to remember as I could visualise the scenes and recall the words. And I think languages must be dynamic, evolving, and changing. Old language books are filled with word forms that are now largely obsolete in society. It is a challenge!
And yes, it is ironic that you are the one with the degree, and I am the one getting paid to write. I write for community magazines and newspapers, so it isn’t so lucrative, but I have deadlines and word counts to adhere to. I enjoy it but sometimes it is too much for a semi retired person.
Would you ever consider submitting a piece for publication these days?
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I really liked that way of learning too Amanda. I keep asking myself now why it was so much easier to learn, even that verb conjugation which is a pain, back then? At that time I was going to school full time, worked weekends, holidays and Summers (waitressing) and had other activities going on associated with school Maybe too much is crammed into my brain now, like a computer that needs more memory. 🙂 I loved working on the college newspaper and was the Editor of the Student Handbook one year while at Community College, so I know how deadlines and word counts can be difficult to deal with sometimes. As a matter of fact, when I did the Student Handbook, I had to use a proportional typewriter to get a justified right margin. That was in 1975 and a long time before using computers or the early word processors. This typewriter was huge and to get your flush right margin, you had to count the spaces of your characters and the space between the words to get to the specific character count for that line. I did the Handbook one Summer and worked full time waitressing, but had one day off a week, the middle of the week, so during the week, at night after work, I would count the spaces in each line and compute them, so I could type it out on Wednesday. No printer typesetting it … it was a lengthy project and while I was paid, I did it primarily for the byline and to look good on my résumé. After I started blogging, my friend/neighbor Marge, whom I mentioned last night, encouraged me to get my blog on the blogroll at two local papers, so I did that up until about a year ago. One was a hyperlocal, totally online newspaper and they changed the format for blog contributors where the photos were gallery-style instead of within the post which didn’t work for my narrative. The other local newspaper, I was on their blogroll and they just linked to my blog. I didn’t get any comments or interaction and for privacy reasons I decided to discontinue.
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Your days writing for student publications sound heady and vibrant, Linda! There was a lot more skill in typing back in the ‘old days,’ before word processors. As a child I was given an old typewriter with a ribbon and round keys surrounded by metal rings. It was huge and heavy – an antique even in my day. There was something satisfying and a little addictive in flicking that carriage return at the end of the line. But accuracy was everything! Unless you wanted to dabble with liquid paper!
I like that the local publications promoted blogs. That didn’t happen here. Bloggers only got followers from social media. I found WordPress when a Norwegian penpal started her blog. I had numerous penpals in those days and I think that was where my writing energy linked to, after similar years writing newsletters for schools and community groups. My penpals were in Europe, Japan and Scandinavia and I visited many of them. Although writing letters seem to have become a relic of history, I stay in touch via social media. I find it fascinating to think you can have a long distance friendship such as this. I guess writing has been the link!
You mentioned privacy and in the face of pervasive technology, it is not a bad practice to reduce exposure in a public space, that is unnecessary. I use a pen name for my professional writing for that reason. Then I think about how much personal information I have added to my blog over the years. I have always been careful and withheld family names and specific details. However, photos have location metadata and collectively our internet use builds a profile of our interests and life. It pays to withhold certain details, and along with the disengagement, I can understand why you discontinued with the newspaper.
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I can identify with the really old typewriters too Amanda! We had to take typing in ninth grade and had that style of typewriters, plus I did many term papers on my mom’s old Royal typewriter. It was a portable, in a case like a suitcase and I’d clipping along, swinging the carriage and the cadence of the vigorous typing, etc. would cause thumping on the case bottom which was on a table. I remember that if you typed too fast, your fingers slid down in between those high keys. When you got to the end of the typewriter ribbon, you flipped it upside down and used it again. And yes, you didn’t want to make mistakes because, in my early typing days, long before Liquid Paper came along, there were those chalky sheets you slid in between the paper and keys to hopefully strike out the wrong word – we had to be much better typists in those days, nothing like today.
I had two pen pals, but unlike you I didn’t get to visit them. In elementary school in Canada, our teacher gave us a list of pen pals that she had coordinated with a teacher in Seoul, South Korea. I kept in touch with him after we moved to the States, but eventually we grew apart. Then in the early 90s, a co-worker passed out names of military personnel that were fighting in Desert Storm. I wrote to that guy for a while, but his letters were infrequent and eventually he stopped writing too.
It was nice that the newspapers give bloggers a chance to put their blogs “out there” for other non-bloggers to see. Through the hyperlocal newspaper, (“Patch”) that was owned by AOL (America On Line), which was where most people had e-mail accounts in the beginning when you accessed the internet by “dial-up”, I met other Patch bloggers from around the country. We had a Facebook group of these bloggers and we shared our posts with one another – that was fun. But AOL sold Patch and Hale Communications bought them and no longer wanted editors for each local community, but just several regional editors across the U.S. We were not paid to contribute our blogs, but the editors for the local newspapers were paid and they lost their jobs with the new owners, then they changed the blogging format, so we bloggers quit posting. It was fun while it lasted though. I went onto “Patch” a few years ago and I was still listed as a blogger, even though I hadn’t posted in a while. Tonight, I could not find my old posts, except by Googling for them. I’ll send you a link to see the hyperlocal paper in a separate comment.
That is how I stay in touch with people, on social media, e-mail mostly. I connected with some high school friends when I joined Facebook in 2009, but we don’t keep in touch on an everyday basis. Most live out of state now. Blogging and having blogging friends all around the world is a lot of fun. I have written a lot about myself and used my own name. Sometimes I do a “Walk Down Memory Lane” especially at the holidays. A couple of mouse clicks and Google can yield a lot of info.
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Your description of typing on the old typewriter brought back memories! I had forgotten about the thumping on the table underneath my antique beast and the way we needed to turn around the ribbon. My typing wasn’t too fast or too accurate. I couldn’t take typing lessons at school – that was only for the “commercial” class – girls that would end up in typing pools in offices. My parents made me take the academic stream at school that didn’t include typing. So I taught myself to touch type. Consequently, if I tried to speed up I might press two keys too close together and the two lever attached to the each key would jam and I would have to unstick the letters, which usually left you with ink on your fingers. Ah… such memories! Thank you for triggering them again.
I can see how the change in ownership of the hyperlocal paper and centralization of editorial input led to a decline in blogging on that platform. I am grateful that WordPress has stayed relatively consistent (albeit with reduction of some features) over the years. And it certainly is fun to re-visit old posts.
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Amanda, we had to take typing and a business class as part of our ninth-grade curriculum. My mom had gone to business school years before and I remember bringing home the projects we had to do, actual bookkeeping, for the class to show her. Yes, the more you pounded the keys and swung the carriage, the typewriter seemed to come to life with a cadence all its own! At that time (1968-1969), wearing big and gawdy-looking rings and bangle bracelets were “all the go” and our teacher would make us remove all of them and put them in a pile next to the typewriter before we started typing. Years later, charm bracelets were popular and they’d get hung up on the keys or the carriage return lever. Did you have to use carbon paper too? That was another reason for being a good typist, less mess to correct the copies. At the law firm, we’d keep file copies of invoices sent out (before there was accounting software and word processors) circa 1980s. The office manager thought it was more cost-effective to use carbon paper than using the xerox machine because it used costly toner. It is all so easy now.
I researched a little before I started the blog as I wasn’t sure what blogging platform to use, but the samples I saw for WordPress made it seem easier to use so I went with them.
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Oh yes- carbon paper…I used and remember that. I don’t miss it!!!
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I don’t either Amanda! Like the old Virginia Slims cigarette commercial said “we’ve come a long way baby!”
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Haha. I don’t know that slogan but I totally agree!
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It was a big commercial back in the day – now manufacturers cannot do any type of cigarette ads, on TV or print. I’ll send you the commercial in a separate comment. They were very creative (at that time, late 1960s).
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Here is the commercial I referenced Amanda – very clever at the time. (It should work even though it says it was disabled, unless it is because you are in another country,
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I can’t see it! Sorry.
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Sorry, I thought that might happen. It would have left you an ear worm too. 🙂
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Here is one of the blog posts I did on the “Patch” blogging platform.
https://patch.com/michigan/wyandotte/tuesday-musings-43
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Cool. Thanks I will take a look.
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A beautiful place, Linda! You captured some fun photos. Congratulations on 5 years of Wordless Wednesday!
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Thank you Rebecca! I’ve enjoyed doing the Wordless Wednesday posts as I often have quirky animal poses, or something that is pretty and would get lost in my longer posts. This is a beautiful place – the gardens are all run by volunteers and one of them, a man, maintains this pretty pond.
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Always love the photos.
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Thank you Barbara! A little touch of Summer to tide us over until the “real deal” arrives.
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LOL Opposite hemisphere here. Going into autumn although our weather at present has been nothing but rain.
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Yes, that’s right; Autumn is my favorite season, the chill in the air and beautiful colors. Rain definitely is a spoiler no matter the season. Our Spring has not been nice so far and we have rain and wintry mixes for Friday through Monday and the long-range for April to June will be very warm temps and lots of rain. That is worrisome as it means bad storms. I may wish for Autumn then. 🙂
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So many beautiful colors!
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That pond is just gorgeous as is the entire Emily Frank Gardens and all run by volunteers. The fish were inquisitive that day – it was Sunday, the volunteers’ day off and they probably thought I had some food for them and came over to see me. I understand that Koi fish interact with the people that feed them, even taking food from their fingers.
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Congratulations! I admire your consistency! 🙂
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Thank you Barbara! It’s been a great way to use my quirky photos of critters and/or if I have unique or pretty photos, that otherwise get lost in my long posts.
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