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 
Gotta love turtles!
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When they are sunning like that they are peaceful looking – there were a lot more but I would have needed a wide-angle lens to get them all in! 🙂
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Someone grabbed the best spot! 🐢
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Unbelievably there were even more that I couldn’t fit into the picture – I would have needed a wide-angle lens. But I noticed the other turtles gave the best spot to the little one! 🙂
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Enjoying the sunshine!
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They always look so peaceful sunning like that!
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awwww. The pond across the street from. Us has a log in the water at the far side. I think it’s covered with turtles but it’s hard to see. I should go out with binoculars or at least my long lens.
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There were so many turtles that day I could not fit them all in one picture – I would have needed a wide angle lens. I had to smile as they let the baby have the best spot, totally out of the water. 🙂
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Big family! 😀
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Yes! And even more turtles than you see here, but I couldn’t fit them all in the photo – I’d have needed a wide-angle lens. 🙂
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I don’t know why I find turtles so cool, but I do.
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They look so relaxed, just sunning on a log without a care in the world. Perhaps that is the attraction – we humans should have it so blissful. 🙂
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A sunny, peaceful day. The more, the merrier. 🙂
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Yes, they look so peaceful lined up there – there were more turtles that I couldn’t fit into the picture as I would have needed a wide-angle lens. I thought it was funny, they put the baby up top in the sun, while the rest where partially in the water.
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Turtles seem to be always relaxing!
I participated in the naming of the Philadelphia Zoo’s four new Galápagos tortoise hatchlings that are named Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia, after the characters from “The Golden Girls”. The mother is almost 100 years old! Did you participate?
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That sounds like fun and how clever to name them after “The Golden Girls” characters. No, I didn’t participate, but I have participated in other animal naming contests in the past. That’s amazing – 100 years old! I think I heard the story or saw headlines that she was a first-time mom?
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What a cute little turtle family, Linda!
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Glad you liked them Terri. I thought it was funny the bigger turtles let the baby go up to the top so its feet/tail were not in the water. There were more turtles, but I could not get them all in the photo!
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You must be the turtle whisperer! I don’t think I have ever seen more than 2 turtles at the same time and then they dive under the water. Nice one Linda!!!
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Thank you Diane, but truthfully they usually plop in the water when they see me too. I think since I was behind them, they didn’t see me or they were snoozing. 🙂 There were a lot of turtles sleeping at the water’s edge and I couldn’t get them all in the photo.
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Oh I love the title for these good-sized turtles.
and I just watched a documentary on the reefs and they said that only one in 1,000 sea turtle hatchlings survive to adulthood. That was so interesting
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Thank you Yvette! Bob Seger is so popular around here and that was a big hit for him – perfect for the turtles sunning. That is interesting about the sea turtle hatchlings – very poor odds and I think I have read or seen that when sea turtles hatch en masse, that depending on weather conditions, tide, etc., there are volunteers standing by to help shepherd the hatchlings to water. Here, our turtles build nests not more than 20 feet from water, so once sprung from the nest, the hatchlings have a clear path to water. I once watched a turtle digging a nest and researched it later for my post with pictures I took. I watched the nest daily after it was time for them to hatch, all the while hoping to see the hatchlings emerge in a line from the ground, but they did it in pre-dawn hours.
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Hi Linda – the sunspot baby song is one of my favs from bob seger – and I think I still have a video of my girlfriends and I singing it at a bar back in 1991 – I need to convert some 8mm tapes still – and think I still have it
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and too bad you missed the hatchlings emerge – 😊😊
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Bob Seger lived in my city for a short time and when I was in high school, both he and Alice Cooper played in local high schools until they became famous. That sounds like a fun video Yvette. I took a movie camera into work once at the ad agency. I got back the film which was on a reel but I would like to see it again, so I am thinking of having it converted too. I believe Walgreens does that if I’m not mistaken.
I was bummed to have missed it. There were some other walkers at the Park at that time who were hoping to see them. We saw the hole they came out of though and it was not big. When the female turtle made the nest and laid the eggs, she covered up the nest, so you would not even know it was there.
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hope you have a nice weekend
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Thank you Yvette – same to you!
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I love how the stick their little footsies out. 🙂
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Yes, it is cute isn’t it – a little sun on my foot please. 🙂
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Hi Linda! Oh!!!! I love turtles! That’s my goal for next week, to find some sunning themselves at our little lake!
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Welcome back Joni! I hope you find your turtles – these didn’t plop into the water because they didn’t see me as I was behind them. There were so many turtles I couldn’t fit them all into the frame!
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I have to wait for a sunny day – not happening in the next little stretch of weather forecast rain and cloud. I know where to find them, but they’re not always out. Failing that, one of the nurseries has an indoor pond with quite a few of them which attracts a lot of visitors. It’s just nice to watch them move and to sleep so motionless that you wonder if they are fake!
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Yes, unfortunately they only sit on logs and sunbathe when it’s really hot and sunny. I saw a lot of them last week because it was the first really sunny and warm week and I think they all came up to the surface from where they were buried all Winter and were seeking the sunshine. I like seeing them sunbathing. That’s a fun idea for the nursery to have turtles in an indoor pond. The weather is now going to rain through Wednesday here – they said it was supposed to rain off/on today and I looked out and it was beautiful so I walked then went grocery shopping.
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I really don’t know anything about turtles. I didn’t know they were buried all Winter, but I suppose that makes sense they hibernate like the fish in fish ponds? I think we have five days of rain too….I will respond to your email tomorrow. My new computer isn’t too bad so far, but I spent an hour last night trying to figure out how to get the backlit key function to work and it’s still not right. Windows 11 doesn’t seem much different, but then I have my old Office Word 2016 on it and it’s only day one.
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Joni, they bury themselves under the silt at the bottom of a lake/river/pond until it warms up – they go into a torpor-like state which means they don’t breathe very much, kind of like a bear hibernates. Then when it’s warm, they come to the surface. I saw a lot of turtles sunning themselves the week before last when I went to several large parks … it was sunny and hot that week.
Well, they said we’d have a rainy day today and it didn’t rain … they are wrong a lot and I listen to different weather forecasts before I head out … yesterday and today, rain all day, but it didn’t. No worries – take your time as I was very late responding to yours. I am behind and getting here late as I had my art classes and did my project over a couple of times to try and get it right, then had to photograph it to send it to the instructor.
I found Windows 11 very different but then I used Windows 7 for so many years and I had the Windows 10 laptop from work, but didn’t like it, so I only did updates on it, nothing else. I had to stop using the Windows 7 as I could no longer compose a post in WP. So I only used the Windows 10 from July to end of the year and switched to this one. I’m keeping it as a spare. The Windows 10 has a backlit function and sometimes I go to close the lid and the backlit function stays lit for a long time. I never know if it is updating or just does not want to shut down completely. My boss wanted the backlit feature on his so he had the computer guy order it for both of us. It is a 2019 laptop and was not upgradable to Windows 11, so I had to get a new laptop. That’s bad enough getting used to a new laptop, but you need to get acclimated to all the new WP features too.
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They are quite social, in a big way! 😊 It’s beneficial too, because the more eyes looking about, the better the chance of spotting a predator sneaking closer.
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Yes and I saw so many of them last week Tom. I went out several days since it was such nice weather and every big park where I went there were turtles sunning on logs or on a shoreline. It makes me think it was the first time they emerged from the silt to see the sun since last Fall. More eyes is good, especially with predators lurking about.
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Beautiful turtle 🐢. I think it’s covered with turtles but it’s hard to see. I.
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Hi Raj – actually there are six turtles there, five big ones and one baby. You are probably seeing their reflections in the water as they are so close to the shoreline.
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Yes, Right that my mistake 5 big & Baby. I seeing reflection of water. Thanks,Linda 😀!
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You’re welcome Raj – that is what I thought happened. A sunny day brought good reflections! 🙂
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Yes,Linda . My sunny day brought good reflections. You have a Sunny day. How are you doing?
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I am well Raj – thank you for asking. It is not a sunny day here. It has been pouring raining all day and will do so the next two days. I hope you are also doing well?
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Iam Very well ! Here’s Warm 🥵! Good there will raining. Have a good night sweet dreams 💤
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I love turtles. I think I told you before that I had a pet turtle when I was a little kid. I feel bad now wondering if he would have been happier elsewhere
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I do too Susan and I saw a lot of turtles the week before last because I went out almost every day as it was finally warm and sunny. I think all the turtles finally emerged and were enjoying the sun. I had a pet turtle too and I’m sure it was no life for it in a plastic dish with a ramp and a palm tree. It’s kind of cruel for pet shops to sell them when they could be outside in the wild like these … the equivalent of a zoo when you think about it. [How is Paris?]
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Yes I had the same dish for my turtle! And there was a little ramp he could climb up on to be under the palm tree lol. We are just heading to Paris today and we are stopping at Versailles and then going to Paris. Yesterday we were at Juno Beach and Omaha Beach several other spots.
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I got my turtle and trappings when we moved to the States. On the way home from school I passed a pet shop so begged my parents for a turtle. Your tour sounds comprehensive – I am sure it was a sombre experience at Omaha Beach, then the grandiose palace, then Paris in the Springtime. I will enjoy it vicariously here in rainy Michigan. 🙂
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It is very cold and windy here! Clint has been wearing a touque 😊 they had a hailstorm the other day that was quite bad and one of the churches we saw today had small holes in the stain glass that our guide said was caused by the storm
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Oh no! And here you thought you were escaping the cold, rainy and dreary Canadian weather only to have deal with it in France. I feel badly for you. Good thing Clint was prepared with his touque. It’s miserable to be hot and humid out, but cold and windy is no treat either, especially if you’re taking photos. I hope your weather improves soon for the rest of your Paris in Springtime trip!
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Me too! But honestly at least it’s not raining!
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Well that’s good … you sure don’t want to be traipsing around this beautiful city in the cold, wind AND rain! How is the language app working out? You may not need it as your tours always have guides, but you and Clint sometimes like strolling around town.
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I haven’t used the app, so far my French has gotten us by! I know the basics and most people here speak some English or a lot😊 we were told in their school system, you have to learn French and English and a third language.
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That’s great you are able to get along without the app. That is something good about Europe, in that so many can speak their native language, English and another language – it should be mandatory here as well.
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Yes I agree. My problem is we don’t live in a French community so I have no one to practice with. But I should start listening to French radio or something to keep up
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That was my problem when I finished college after five years of French, the last two years where we spoke no English in the classroom. At that time there was no internet etc., so I occasionally bought French newspapers to read if I could find them. I was following a Duolingo group on Facebook for a while and some people said to start by buying easy-to-read French books and find French films with subtitles until you don’t need the subtitles. Also, if you use a VPN, someone suggested to set it in France so you HAVE to read. I have a VPN and tried that, but then I couldn’t get a lot of regular internet sites then.
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Those are all great ideas. I think I am going to try to keep my French and Spanish up. I also took Spanish but that is not good at all !
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Great – glad to help you out Susan. I am still in the group, but I just turned it off as they were always asking why they got the answer wrong (at Duolingo) – they were further along in the course than me. This is just for French-English. I’ll see if they come up with any more ideas and will pass them along.
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Thanks Linda!
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You’re welcome Susan. (So, I went on there today and someone suggested going on Project Gutenberg for a few free French novels. Are you that advanced to read a novel? I’ll send more tips as I happen upon them.)
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I can take a look first sure, probably too advanced but you never know😊
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Well, I hope it helps … I will keep watching as people were always throwing out suggestions. Some people who have Duolingo pay extra to speak to one of the characters. I have the paid version, but not that one, but you can have a one-on-one conversation, your topic choice.
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Susan, here’s the search feature in their website so it is handy. I had it in my favorites from awhile ago, though I’ve not read anything there. I can’t even get my books read.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/
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Thank you!
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You’re welcome Susan – continued safe travels. P.S. – the DNR is pausing goose gassing for one year. I will mention it in my next long post, but thought I’d let you know. They are pausing due to so many complaints by animal rights groups and caring citizens.
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I love turtles. We see them here on the ranch occasionally. Usually terrapins when they come to lay their eggs. Wonderful capture. 🙂
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I love them too Robin and I saw so many in the large parks where I go as it was finally sunny and warm enough for them to come out of hibernation. Glad you liked the photo – there were actually more turtles than this, but I could not fit them all in the photo.
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Look how shiny those turtle shells are! Those fellows must be eating healthy. And I love how they let the little guy have high ground. Great shot, Linda!
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Thank you Nancy, I’m glad you liked this photo. Yes, their shells were glinting in that hot sun – hopefully they did not use Turtle Wax to get that shiny. I was surprised to see so many given our brutally cold Winter and cold Spring. Believe it or not, there were more large turtles in the line-up, but I couldn’t fit them all in the shot. I like that they put the little guy on high ground too! They couldn’t take a chance on losing him. 🙂
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Linda.I wanted to tell you I found my turtles last Sunday! First time I’ve seen turtles in the wild, and it was great. the zoom lens worked good too. I will respond to your email this weekend. It is a holiday weekend for us here, but I bought way too many flowers today, and have to plant them tomorrow, as we are expecting rain on Saturday. Your watercolors were lovely!
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That’s great news Joni and you’re enjoying your camera too which is great. I forgot it is your holiday weekend. I got some more turtles last Sunday when I was out. I am behind in e-mail and want to respond to your longer e-mail, but I had computer issues Sunday through Tuesday night and it put me behind. I am glad you liked the watercolors. I have this week and next week left and I have three more assignments to do for this week and a post to write. Hobbies are conflicting with getting anything else done. It doesn’t help staying up late due to the weather either.
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