Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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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Linda Schaub
WALKIN', WRITIN', WIT & WHIMSY 
Those look like some of those old Sputnik light fixtures from the 50s!
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Ha ha – yes they do JP! I had to Google Sputnik light fixtures to see an example. I had never seen one before – for $239.00 you can get one from Amazon.
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Nature’s sparklers…how cool! AND they don’t scare the dog by going off at night!
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Yes, very cool Dawn! I took this photo last Summer and waited almost a year to use it. Yes, silent sparklers and they won’t scare dogs at night!
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I feel like I should know what they are but I don’t.
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They are Allium plants and they are also called Wild Onion. I took this picture last Summer at the volunteer garden near my home. I went looking for butterflies and there were all these dead Allium plants and they looked like sparklers to me. They are tall and have light purple flowers that look like a ball.
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Yes after I left my comment, I realized what they were. Beautiful when they bloom.
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Yes, very pretty plants.
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Very pretty, whatever they are, and perfect for Independence Day! 😉
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I thought they were pretty too Barbara. I took this photo last Summer at the volunteer garden. I went there looking for butterflies and found these dead Allium plants, a/k/a Wild Onion. They are tall and their little light purple flowers are clustered together like a pom pom. I decided they’d be perfect for Independence Day!
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Cool!
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I thought so too Ally. I have held onto this photo for almost a year to use for Independence Day – they are pretty when in bloom.
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Perfect Independence Day (week) photo from you!
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I thought it would be fun to use Dave. I took this photo last Summer and saved it for Independence Day!
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Perfect independence day photo shoot.
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Yes, it is perfect for the holiday Raj!
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Happy Independence day,Linda! (Sorry late wish to you)
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Thank you Raj – no problem at all.
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Most welcome ,Linda
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Happy Independence Day, Linda!🎆✨
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Thank you Ruth! I like your fireworks too!
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Miss Linda…………………………………….yes they do look like SPARKLERS don.t they??
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Ann Marie – it’s amazing how much these Allium plants look like sparklers! I took this photo last Summer to use for Independence Day!
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LOVE these in my garden 😍🥰
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LaShelle – you’re back! It’s good to see you here. I’ll have to follow you again. I hope you are back to blogging again as you had a lot going on before and I always loved your photos! P.S. I’ll be over later. I see you posted today.
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Clever optical illusion! 😀 Wishing you a peaceful 4th of July. 🎆
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Thank you Debbie! I’m glad you liked these very quiet fireworks!
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How pretty! They look exactly like fireworks (and a lot less noisy). 🙂
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Yes, they look just like fireworks when the plant dies off – amazing isn’t it? They are very pretty when in bloom too, a lilac-colored flower that looks like a pom-pom on top of a long stalk. Yes, much quieter than the real deal. 🙂
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Perfect photos for the 4th of July! That allium does look like a firework!
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Thank you Laurie! It amazed me too how much it looked like a firework!
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I am back and back to writing too! Just posted a new one around 3 AM 😅
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That’s great – I hope you are well.
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Sparklers for July 4!
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Yes, courtesy of Mother Nature!
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Amazing photos!
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Thank you Anne – I thought they these dried Allium looked like the “real deal”!
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How pretty, Linda, nature’s sparklers! Hope your 4th is fun! 🇺🇸🎆
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I thought they were pretty and unique looking too Terri. Mother Nature gets an A+ for creativity here! You enjoy your 4th as well!
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I love allium so I planted it and it died off by the next year. They are perennials aren’t they. Great title for this post Linda.
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Yes they are perennials Diane – you have such a green thumb, so I wonder why they died off? I should go and check them out at the volunteer garden as they might still be in bloom. I took these photos last Summer after I went to the volunteer perennial garden looking for butterflies and saw these allium which I thought were unique! Thank you – I though they looked like the sparklers we used to hold in our hands when we were kids.
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They sure do Linda, the grandkids come here and do sparklers and other legal fireworks then we watch the neighbors display at dark. He usually does about 45 minutes and they look Like we were watching them at a business or city’s display. They are exciting to come again this year.
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I thought I remembered you telling me once that your neighbor put on a great show every 4th of July. We just had a good rain for about a half-hour which I’m happy for as it made the grass wet in case a firecracker landed in the grass. I hope your weather is good … I went out this morning and it was sickening hot.
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Sparkler – always – that’s what I love about them; they just keep on giving! Lovely, Linda xx
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Thank you Linda! Those Allium are beautiful when in bloom and I thought they were pretty unique here after they went to seed. I actually took these photos last Summer and saved them for now. This is at a volunteer garden and they have a lot of perennials and bees butterflies when the flowers are peaking in late Summer.
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How wonderful – we’re in a freezing (by our standards) Australian winter here, so it’s so refreshing to see garden glory of any type! L xx
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We are hotter than normal right now here in Southeast Michigan, but I know we are not alone with heat waves going on in Europe right now. Hemisphere flipped for the opposite season has always fascinated me. I had a childhood friend whose father was transferred to Australia for his job and we corresponded for a while and it was interesting. I always gaze at garden pics in the middle of our Winter too! It seems difficult to believe sometimes that any flowers, bushes and trees will come back after months of cold, ice and snow.
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Yay to Mother Nature to being so resilient under so much pressure – Spring will come soon enough (for us) and they’ll we’ll probably be melting too!
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It is pretty amazing how resilient Mother Nature is, especially when you see all the flowers pushing up through the Earth after a brutally cold Winter. We are in this hot spell right now and just had a storm, thankfully not volatile, as many of them have been this Summer. I am ready for Autumn which is my favorite season. I think the older I get, the less tolerant I am of all the heat and humidity.
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Spring is my favorite – so we’re both going to be happy soon!
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Yes we will Linda!
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🙂
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Prettier than the manmade things by far. Additionally, there is no danger in harming people in tragic ways.
Great pics, Linda! 😊
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Thank you Tom! This is at a volunteer garden and I took the photos last Summer. I went over to look for butterflies and bees in the perennial garden and found these instead. Nature’s sparklers. 🙂 I think they are prettier and long-lasting too and yes, safer!
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Yes, they are much safer. They are the right kind of explosion! 😊
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Yes, safer for the environment and gentler on the ears!
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I read the comment about the Sputnik lights and I agree ! They are pretty
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I had to Google them as I had not heard of Sputnik lights – I know I’ve seen these somewhere before though and yes they do!
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Love these! They are so pretty.
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I thought they looked so unusual having gone to seed. They are even prettier in bloom. These were the purple variety, but they have white ones too.
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