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 
Good grief! That is most amusing!
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Anne, this bench is at the Botanical Gardens and I always thought it was petrified wood until recently when I saw the big hole – yikes! There are actually two of these benches there and both have holes like this; I didn’t include the other one since they look identical. Glad to give you a smile!
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That looks like a great place to get termites in the tush! Or ants in your pants?
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That’s funny JP – of course I’m asking myself why I didn’t think of either one of these. 🙂 Believe it or not, there are two benches, close in proximity to each other, at the Botanical Gardens. I always thought they were made of petrified wood until recently when I saw this damage.
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Nope, I wouldn’t sit there. Not sure it could my weight on top of the splinters.
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No way would I sit there either Kate and oddly enough, there is another identical bench nearby. They are both at the Botanical Gardens. I thought they were both made of petrified wood until I saw this damage in both of them. Guess it is not petrified wood – yikes!
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I like this bench! It’s different…don’t know if I’d SIT on it, but I think it’s pretty.
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I wouldn’t sit on it either Dawn. It is at the Botanical Gardens and amazingly, there is an identical bench nearby with the same damage, but both benches’ damage is recent, not vandalism, but I think weathered wood from last Winter’s ice/snow/cold. But up until I saw this damage, I thought both benches were made of petrified wood as they had a glossy look to them and they were very pretty amongst the plants.
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Good advice in either case! 🙂 Interesting bench – is it very old?
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Yes, very good advice Debbie! Well interestingly, up until this year, I thought this bench and a companion bench nearby, (both located at the Botanical Gardens at Heritage Park), were petrified wood. They had a glossy look to them (probably just shellac) and looked sturdy. But this year, both of them have the big hole, right in the middle of the seat (strange). I think it is weatherworn from last Winter’s ice, snow and cold, since I’ve been going there for about ten years and never noticed it before.
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Miss Linda………………………………………………No way will I sit on that old bench……………………………………………..
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No way for me either Ann Marie – did you recognize the bench from the Botanical Gardens at Heritage Park? There are actually two of them and they never looked like that until this year, so I think last year’s Winter done them in.
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A lot of truth and wisdom in this, Linda! I love rustic benches, but always wear pants! 😄
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Yes, words to live by Terri! 🙂 I wouldn’t sit on this bench either, in pants or otherwise. This is at the Botanical Gardens at Heritage Park and up until this year, I always thought this bench and a similar one nearby, were made of petrified wood. I was surprised to see the damage to both and I don’t think it is vandalism, but more so the aftermath of our icy, snowy and brutally cold Winter.
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Yes, words to live by Terri! 🙂 I wouldn’t sit on this bench either, in pants or otherwise. This bench is at the Botanical Gardens at Heritage Park and up until this year, I always thought this bench and a similar one nearby, were made of petrified wood. I was surprised to see the damage to both and I don’t think it is vandalism, but more so the aftermath of our icy, snowy and brutally cold Winter.
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The photo andvthe quote made me smile. Thank you.
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I am glad you liked the photo and the quote Lakshmi.
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I bet there are bugs in there. Splinters would be better than sitting on bugs! Lol
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Bugs … something I didn’t think of Diane (and believe me, I ALWAYS think of bugs). Nothing levels me more than walking into a room or turning on the light and seeing a creepy crawly. The centipede from earlier in the Summer is still at large. 🙂
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The centipede was scared of you and ran away! 🤣
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Yes! I hope so, but I still cover my shoes so it doesn’t hide in there. I keep my shoes I wear to water or go outside if I don’t walk in the cellarway and put a napkin over them, so it doesn’t hide in there (like it couldn’t crawl underneath). I have a picture somewhere in my blog of the centipede that was on the bar of soap in the bathroom. It freaked me out and I was afraid to try to kill it as for sure I would miss, so I went and got a clear bowl and put it over the soap dish and soap, then the stupid thing didn’t die for a long time. I have no guts when it comes to killing spiders and centipedes.
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Love the rustic vibe – it might be more useful holding a couple of potted plants!
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That’s a good idea Barbara! I have to look and see if I have any photos of this bench (or the other identical one) from a few years ago when they were in the prime, looked much less rustic and I actually thought they were petrified wood as they were shiny and in pristine condition. I think the elements did a number on them this past wicked Winter.
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Mother Nature is always working to reclaim her materials!
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She is a smart lady!
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It looks like termites have been sitting on that bench as well.
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Thereby making the expression “having a bug up your butt” very real!
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good one Linda!
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Thanks Wayne!
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I think that you might be correct about the winter ice rotting the benches especially because you didn’t see this decay before. I’m glad that you got out to the botanical gardens. I hope the sightseeing lifted your spirits!
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TD, I will have to look for an old picture of the bench to be sure, but I go there so often that I’m positive it was the bad Winter weather, although a few people have suggested termites as the reason. They might have chewed other parts of the wood as well though if it was termites. I was there last Sunday taking photos for my October 29th post. I have been to Heritage Park a lot this year due to the heat/humidity – a smaller park, usually something to photograph, but not out in the hot sun across several miles like Lake Erie Metropark which is so much larger, plus I worry about ticks – here it is not in the deep woods on rustic trails.
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Yikes! I would be afraid to sit on it for fear that I’d be the “straw that broke the camel’s back” and bring the whole thing down. 😱
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I’m with you on that thought Janis – it was always a beautiful bench and I thought it was petrified wood as it was glossy looking. There is a companion bench, also with the same problem. I was sitting on a kitchen chair a few years ago, heard a big crack and down the chair and I went onto the kitchen floor. The chair had a wobbly rung, but apparently that rung was more important than I thought. Luckily I didn’t break anything as it was a short fall, but still ….
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It’s a shame to see it rotting away. At this point, one should be very careful how they sit upon it.
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I agree Rebecca – the Botanical Gardens has everything else looking so nice, that I am surprised they let that bench look like this and it would be dangerous to sit on it – you might not only get splinters, but take a tumble.
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Splinters and tumbles aside, you made this work so well.
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Thank you Barbara! I wish I’d thought to go back in my blog and see if I had a picture of the bench in its glory days and include it in the post as a side-by-side (like the recent birdhouse pictures) For some reason I believed this bench and a similar one nearby were petrified wood. I guess not. More like being “petrified” to sit on it. 🙂
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Woof. That looks more like a work of art than a functioning bench!
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Ha ha – it used to be a beautiful bench once upon a time, as was the companion bench close by which has the same issue with the seat – go figure. It is at the Conservatory and Botanical Gardens which is usually a little more persnickety about the grounds. For the longest time I thought it was petrified wood as it was glossy – WAS is the operative word here. 🙂
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Confucius very wise about man and what happens to bum when sitting on splintered bench!
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Yes, it was a polite way of saying “don’t let the bench stick it to you!” 🙂
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