Some day my ship will come in, but for now I’ll perch on Lucky 7!

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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39 Responses to Some day my ship will come in, but for now I’ll perch on Lucky 7!

  1. ruthsoaper's avatar ruthsoaper says:
    May 7, 2025 at 7:21 am

    Love your title, Linda. 😁

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  2. J P's avatar J P says:
    May 7, 2025 at 7:50 am

    There is something timeless about a photo of a gull and her buoy. 🙂

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  3. Kate Crimmins's avatar Kate Crimmins says:
    May 7, 2025 at 8:01 am

    Hanging on there for dear life!

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  4. TD's avatar TD says:
    May 7, 2025 at 8:12 am

    Ha! …and on the 7th day of the month!! Waiting for my ship to come in on lucky 7!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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  5. bushboy's avatar bushboy says:
    May 7, 2025 at 8:14 am

    Great title, made me smile

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  6. rajkkhoja's avatar rajkkhoja says:
    May 7, 2025 at 11:32 am

    Perfect title you make me happy ☺️

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  7. Prior...'s avatar Prior... says:
    May 7, 2025 at 1:12 pm

    great title and I like the angle and layers in this perched bird image

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  8. Rebecca's avatar Rebecca says:
    May 7, 2025 at 6:09 pm

    Seven, the perfect number. The gull found a perfect perch. 🙂

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  9. Debbie D.'s avatar Debbie D. says:
    May 8, 2025 at 2:47 am

    Perching on buoy number 7 and the date is May 7. Bound to be lucky! 😀

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  10. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    May 9, 2025 at 12:38 am

    Lucky 7 looks like it was made for gulls to make use of! Great shot, Linda! 😊😊

    The winds around here are endlessly insane, these days. They are going to leach all of the moisture out of the soil (and the farmers, who don’t believe in global warming, will have puny, terrible crops).

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      May 9, 2025 at 9:45 pm

      I agree with you Tom – gulls like sitting on those buoys as they sway in the water, a perfect perching place. I spoke to one of the interpretive guards at Lake Erie Metropark last year and he told me the same thing. You would not believe how the marshes around here look. In many cases, there is no water, the marshes are all dirt. This was last year already when he told me this and he said ‘it’s going to get worse.” And it has gotten worse as there were even more dry marshes in the Spring – the waterfowl have to find new places to go. Yes, the farmers will suffer too and if they didn’t believe in global warming before, they will now. More expensive produce for all of us.

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      • Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
        May 11, 2025 at 6:58 pm

        I talked to a farmer neighbor today (who cuts my grass with a big riding mower) and he is all despondant about the frequent winds and the lack of rain. He made positive comments about my hybrid car and i think he is realizing that we can all do better concerning the environment.

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
        May 11, 2025 at 7:35 pm

        That’s good that people are finally starting to see what we have known for a few years now … and now they realize there is something to worry about, especially for the farmer as it impacts his livelihood. The wind situation as I understand it is from instability with an unsettled weather pattern over the past few Winters making our winds gustier than ever. Michigan is one of five states with above-average wind gusts. The marshes in the bigger parks have areas where they are all dried up. Today I left the house and the windspeed was about 5 mph. Fifteen miles away at the metropark, the wind began gusting, making it difficult at times to take a picture without a little bit of “shake”.

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  11. Watsonville Carpet Cleaner's avatar Watsonville Carpet Cleaner says:
    May 9, 2025 at 1:22 pm

    Such a great shot, thank you for sharing!

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  12. indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
    May 9, 2025 at 5:23 pm

    I wonder if they get sea sick, it would make me sick swaying back and forth on that buoy! You come up with the best titles Linda!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      May 9, 2025 at 9:53 pm

      I wonder too Diane – I would think all that wavy water (and this was right by the boat launch area) would make them seasick and they would fall off! Thank you – I am glad you liked the title. 🙂

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  13. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    May 10, 2025 at 7:05 am

    May it be worth the wait! 🙂

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  14. Amorina Rose's avatar Amorina Rose says:
    May 11, 2025 at 11:11 pm

    I know the feeling.

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