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 
A pretty little schoolhouse
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Yes, it is Brian. I love the color of it and it once was a real schoolhouse. Inside it looks the same as a vintage schoolroom, even down to the little chair in the corner with a dunce cap sitting on it, each desk with a flip-top lid. They only open it to visitors once a year.
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Pretty in pink!
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Yes, I took this picture when Spring was erupting with lots of pink trees. I’m glad I enjoyed Spring to the fullest before this long, hot Summer set in.
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Definitely an institute of higher learning for the goose. 😉
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Yes, it was important to him to stay on top of things. 🙂
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Good answer!
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😂 Good one!
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The schoolhouse always looks so cheerful.
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Yes Anne, it really does in that bright-red color and it is maintained inside just as it would have been back in the day, right down to a dunce chair (and hat) in the corner. One day I’m going to take a tour – they offer a tour of the historical buildings once a year.
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It’s amazing how far school has come.
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Yes and they call birds “bird brains”!!! For shame!
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Unique shot! It’s unusual to see a goose perched on a rooftop. The little red schoolhouse looks like it’s in good shape as well. Happy Wednesday, Linda!
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I was lucky with that shot Debbie. I was hoping that goose would move closer to the bell so I could say it was ringing it. Once I was there and they were tolling the school bell, maybe testing it in advance of the annual event where you can tour all the historical buildings. The Little Red Schoolhouse is in good shape, considering how old it is – it was built in 1882 and moved to Heritage Park and then restored in 1992. Happy Wednesday back at you!
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Wow!! I love this schoolhouse. The goose on the rooftop is looking for the kids to come to class.
I wonder what it was like to study and learn in one of those places.
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I like this schoolhouse too Esther – so quaint and cute. Once a year they open it for a tour. I’ve not gone on the tour, but you can look inside the windows any time and Heritage Park posts pics of the classroom inside when they have the tour. It has the wooden, flip-top desks, even a dunce chair and hat on the chair seat in the corner.
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That goose is at the top of the class!
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I like that JP! In fact I like it better than my own quip about higher learning, which pales in comparison. Geese are not birdbrains!
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I’ve always loved your photos of this school house!
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It is a cute and quaint little schoolhouse Shelley. One of these days I’m going to go to the annual open house for the historic buildings and take photos of it inside – they have it decked out just as school might have existed in the 1890s when it was built. 🙂
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That sounds like a wonderful idea and a blog post waiting to happen ;-)!
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I will have to look into it -I follow Heritage Park on Facebook so I know when there events there (usually so I can avoid going when there is a crowd).
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A “goose of the loose” and a “goose on the roof” sounds like it should be an excellent Dr. Seuss book. 🙂
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That would be a fun Dr. Seuss book Rebecca! I have always liked Dr. Seuss!
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I love those old fashioned buildings where they tell about the old days. Although I don’t recall a goose. I remember helping with elementary school trips to two of them and I took a client to one. Boring after the first time going. The places I went to you pay to get in, you can’t just walk around.
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I agree with you Diane. It is fun to see how life was back in the “real olden days”, long before our grandparents lived, but once you have seen it once, it is the same thing again. I have peeked in the window and that’s how I know what it looks like inside, a very small room. I have also taken pics for a blogpost, I think right after the start of the pandemic, of two large dolls dressed in period clothing, looking out the window. I should go on a gray day as the window reflection doesn’t allow you to get good shots. At least here at Heritage Park you don’t have to pay to get in and I think their annual tour of the old log house, schoolhouse and sawmill are free.
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wow this little red school house is in great condition
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Yes it is Yvette. I think that bright-red color makes it so appealing and there is a hand pump in front also painted in the same bright red.
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That Goose is definitely on top of his studies!
Sweet pic, Linda!!!!
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Yes, he is Tom – no one is going to call that goose a birdbrain!
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Awesome Pink school 🏠. Beautiful area around the trees & water.
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It is very picturesque Raj – I like the reflection on the water and it is nicest to see it in Spring when the flowering trees are in bloom and in the Fall when the leaves change colors.
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Gorgeous area around the schoolhouse. All over the wooden structure. Beautiful rooftop & colour. I like,Linda the reflection 🪞.
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I like reflections too Raj – they add a lot to the photo.
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Thanks, Linda 🤠. Very good add to the photo.
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The goose is probably waiting for someone to chase and be angry with lol. They can be engaging and also quite miserable. I love that little school house
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I agree Susan – the geese are always wanting to pick a fight, so this one up on the roof could get a bird’s eye view of whom he should pick a fight with. 🙂 I love that little red schoolhouse too. One day I’m going to take a tour of it – the park has an open house once a year and I always say I’ll go some day. P.S. – I just thought of you two yesterday. My desktop image was a gorgeous picture of a moose and it was so close up I felt like I could touch those velvet antlers.
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Oh nice! I love moose, we leave next weekend for up North to photograph them.
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It could have been either of your photos. 🙂 That’ll be great and I know you’re looking forward to Algonquin Park just as the trees start to turn color. I am envious!
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And here I thought it was fish who were in schools.
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Well I have to say my followers have come up with better quips than I did – good one Janis!
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Miss Linda……………………………………….I feel a sigh of relief seeing a school this time of the year……………………………………..I don’t have to get ready for the first day of school working day and night…………………………………….
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You did put in your time with your classroom duties Ann Marie, both during the day teaching, then daily preparation, grading papers, etc. You earned and needed that three-month break every Summer!
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Very appropriate for the first week of school. This year the curriculum is by Mother Goose. LOL.
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Thank you Ruth and yes, Mother Goose is in charge of the curriculum this year – love it!!! 🙂
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I love this photo!!
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Thank you Vero! It made me smile as well and some commenters had much funnier quips that I did about that goose, one even saying it was a Mother Goose curriculum. 🙂
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Now I feel the need to google how a goose ended up in so many childrens’ reading material!
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At least Mother Goose stories, which I remember from toddler days, (dare I say the late 50s/early 60s), were safe reading material with a very cute subject.
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My “toddler days” were even farther back than yours, and yes those Mother Goose stories were very safe. (Lots of violence at times, with animals and even people getting “eaten up” by wicked beings) but we took it all in stride and just took care to protect ourselves from all those nasty characters.
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We were a smart bunch back then weren’t we? I don’t think I had any concerns about “boogie men” under the bed and the like, but was a softie instead, crying in the Disney movies when the animal main character died, like in “The Red Pony” and “Old Yeller” or even Charlotte in the book “Charlotte’s Web” … I was a gentle soul, even back then. 🙂
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Me too. There’s no way I would watch “Old Yeller” again even now. That was so upsetting!!
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Yes, too sad and I had the same reaction reading those books. Animal stories with sad endings would get me now too.
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😭😭😭
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I like this little schoolhouse. It seems intent on not sliding into the pond. And it’s cute as can be.
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Yes, I like it too Ally. I think it is the most picturesque building of the historical buildings on the pathway, especially since they removed the fir tree that was listing badly for years. Having a goose parading around on top of it made it even more quaint.
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What a cute little schoolhouse!
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I think so too and one day I’m going to take a tour of it. Once a year, they have an open house for each of the historical buildings. I have peeked in the window and taken pictures, though it’s difficult due to the reflection on the glass, but they have life-sized dolls dressed in vintage clothing looking out the window and the inside of the schoolroom is as you might imagine it from a bygone era.
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