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 
whoa, beauty, eh?!
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The beauty does take your breath away doesn’t it Pam?
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That it does. 😘
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Beautiful photos and beautiful words.
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I’m glad you liked both Ruth. The flowers are so delicate, like a water version of your Hibiscus.
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Absolutely beautiful! I am going to have to look for some lotuses in my neck of the woods. I have never seen them!
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They are so delicate and beautiful Laurie. I hope you can find some lotus beds in your area to see. They are usually at peak by now around here.
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Those are beautiful lotuses!
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Aren’t they gorgeous! I like how they don’t all open at the same time, so you can see them in different stages.
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Nature’s art, these are dazzling! More than enough to make my day. 🙂
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Glad to make your day Barbara! They are so beautiful and what’s nice is they don’t all open the same time, so it’s nice to see their various blooming stages.
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Gorgeous images and the quote resonates, as well. 💫
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Thank you Debbie, I’m glad you liked the photos and the quote!
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These sun cups dancing on water makes me happy 🎶🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵…
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They are beautiful aren’t they TD? No matter the stage of the blooms, they are exquisite looking flowers.
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Those are very beautiful. I haven’t noticed anything like it around here.
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Yes, they’re very beautiful when in bloom or even about to bloom. I wonder how all the heat affected them this year? In the Winter, the stalks and seed pods look like periscopes coming out of the water/ice which is an interesting look.
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Once I was so determined to get a close up of some water lilies that I waded in with chest waders. Very muddy bottom.
Great shots Linda!
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Thank you Wayne! They are beautiful in bloom and I can imagine how muddy it would have been, but you are lucky you didn’t get your feet tangled up in the stems that go deep underwater and are considered somewhat invasive since they multiply so rapidly into the lotus beds.
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I’m game to try just about everything at least once!
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That’s the spirit Wayne – that attitude will keep you young!
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I like your flowers on sticks.
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They are kind of unique looking aren’t they Anne?
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Beautiful lotus blossoms, Linda! I can’t recall the last time I’ve seen one myself.
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Yes, they sure are lovely Terri. I hope to see more of them before the Summer is over!
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Lotus Blossoms bring that kind of beauty that is magical. Thoreau must have been very appreciative of them. 😊
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Tom, they look so delicate, don’t they? I can’t blame Thoreau for being appreciate of them.
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Wow.. what a stunning American Lotus 🪷. Really like colour. Perfect capture the lotus flower.v
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Thank you Raj, I’m glad you liked these beautiful blooms.
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Thoreau’ quote is so absolutely true!! Lovely lotus’ blooms!! 💛
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Yes! It is very true Donna. I’m glad you liked the lotuses – they are so delicate looking.
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Beautiful, Linda. I’ve never gotten close enough to one to know if they have a scent.
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I’m glad you liked these photos Janis. I was trying for a variety of stages of lotus blooms. Yes, they have a faint fragrance, which to me is subtle, like honeysuckle, especially when it is morning and it’s hot and humid. They close up at night and open in the early morning. This is the closest I am able to access the Lotuses as the other beds are too far away to smell.
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I love seeing these in full bloom. Beautiful photos, Linda.
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Thank you Rebecca! Yes, they are gorgeous when in bloom. They are at peak here right now.
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Very nice Linda! I think they can be quite expensive, according to my neighbour, who will drive miles to pick up a single plant from someone for his fish pond. He had 3 in bloom this year, all pale pink.
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Thank you Joni! Yes, they are beautiful and these, if you pick ’em you would get fined, even if the blooms are off and they are reduced to sticks with seed pods. They are considered protective plants, but … unbelievably, they are considered invasive as well.
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I love these plants Linda and I even sunk them in pots in my ponds when I had them. They are expensive as Joni said. I also floated hyacinths and they cost $1.00 a piece. I would buy 10 for each pond and by the end of summer I was throwing them away by the handful so I had a hole to feed the fish. I just watched a nature show about them being invasive, they spread like crazy!
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I love them too Diane! They look like they would be very delicate and hard to grow, but they are hardy as you know if you had to get rid of them; look how they come back every Spring and if you go to areas where they have the Lotuses, in the Winter if the water is frozen over, the Lotus leaves are gone and all that is left is a stick in the ice with a seed pod on them. I know you can buy the seed pods at Michael’s Craft Stores, but they are decorative only. I have heard they are invasive, which seems contrary to the fact that they are protected plants and you get fined if you pick them. But the deer and muskrat eat the leaves – maybe they spit out the bloom! 🙂
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It doesn’t make sense at all they are protected.
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I agree with you Diane – not when they turn around and say they are invasive!
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excellent quote for the title and I love how your photos led us to the last glowing yellow bloom !
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Thank you Yvette! I do love Thoreau’s quotes about nature and these Lotuses are beautiful. I was happy to get them in various stages from “stick and bud” to beautiful bloom!
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Pretty lotus! I haven’t read Thoreau in a while. Great quote
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Glad you like them Esther! I bought the book “Walking” by Thoreau a few years ago – maybe this year I can get it read – it is only about 50 pages long. I’ve not read anything by him before, but like his quotes.
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These are so pretty,
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I agree Sandra – they are beautiful, no matter what stage of bloom they are in.
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Very pretty !
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They are so pretty and I’m glad I saw them here as the lotus beds at Lake Erie Metropark did not produce this year. I was there last week and it was a disappointment to see just some leaves but zero blooms at peak blooming time, so I’m glad I got to see these at the DNR Headquarters.
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