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 
Beautiful butterflies!
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I love Monarchs – I just saw one clinging to a chain-link fence a couple of weeks ago, probably in between winging its way to a warmer place. I think they’re all gone now.
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Halloween makes me think of Butterfinger more than butterflies, but this one’s colors are appropriate.
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Now, I wish I had thought of using Butterfinger in my title of this post … this Monarch was dressed to impress for Halloween. 🙂
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Those photos are gorgeous!
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Thank you Anne! This Monarch even made the weed look nice with its presence.
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Nice photos! I didn’t even realize today was Wednesday!
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Thank you Dawn! What better way to celebrate Halloween than sporting black and orange? For some reason I have thought it was Thursday all day. It’s like when we worked and had a long holiday weekend. It took a few days to get it straight what day it was.
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Beautiful photos, Linda.
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Thank you Rebecca – I guess these beauties are now gone until next May (for us anyway)
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Ha! That’s cute! I hope it doesn’t rain on Halloween, as I bought way too much candy.
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Thank you Joni! It was a perfect Monarch, no tears or tatters in its wings. They have backed off the rain for Halloween, except for around 6:00 p.m. which is too bad as most of the young kids are out at that time. That’s a shame if you end up with lots of candy – I hope you bought some of your favorites. 🙂 Congrats to the Jays and good luck for tonight!
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Thanks Linda! Game just started and we already have two home runs, but it’s early days.
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I just looked and its 3-1 for Jays … top of the 4th. Hopefully it doesn’t go into the wee hours of the morning again!
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Middle of the 8th, 6-1, Jays – yay! Off to bed for me.
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I was just going to comment, but you beat me to it. Yes, it’s looking good. Only need 3 outs now and game over. Game over! They did it! Dodgers fans look stunned. But I think it will go to game 7 as in game 6 they have to face a good pitcher.
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I put the news on as soon as I got up this morning and heard the score – great job by the Jays. Too bad about the Game 6 Dodgers pitcher though, but at least the Jays have home field advantage, so that’s a good thing.
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It will be a miracle if they win tonight, but miracles do happen. I hope the tricker treaters are done by 8pm or I’ll be running back and forth to the door!
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Well, hopefully the kids are long gone because they also want to see the game! Good luck to the Jays!
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Well, sadly they did not win and tonight’s the night for them to win – it will be quite a game from what I hear. They are talking about it in Detroit as Max Scherzer is starting. I think I heard he retires after this, if I heard correctly. Well fingers crossed once again they win.
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Well the score says bottom of the 7th, 4-2 Blue Jays, so I’m sure I’ll wake up to them as winners.
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I guess it wasn’t to be…..and they were so close. I got a bad feeling in the 9th inning, 3 outs away and a series of mistakes and bad luck, as it could have gone either way. I even watched the post-game interviews after and the guys were very emotional. I feel sorry for them, for battling so hard all year. Some of them are free agents so doubtful they will be all back next year….when the dodgers with the big payroll will probably win again. I saw a facebook ad, congratulating Japan! Money equals might in the US.
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That’s too bad Joni. I was shocked when I turned on the news this morning as I figured home advantage, they were ahead and they wanted to win so badly. The Dodgers already won last year and a few years ago … I did hear that Max Scherzer, who is a free agent, being paid by multiple teams as he’s been traded so often, may reconsider retiring since he wanted to go out on a winning note for his 18th season. Sigh.
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Yea, there will never be another chance like that, as Ernie Clement said, “We are a group of uncommon men. Others would have given up long ago.” As so many of the team members are free agents this year, with all the trades etc., next year won’t be the same. I’m still feeling sad, plus they united the country at a time when the US is relentlessly picking on us.
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That is sad that it will never be the same group again – it’s like when the graduating seniors at the big universities are gone and it’s just not the same the following year – new team, etc. I “get” about everyone feeling that united front and there were many people here in Michigan that wanted the Jays to win … to go so far and not take home the big prize is so disheartening.
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Beautiful butterfly photos. How long ago were they taken? Are there still butterflies in your neck of the woods?
This year, as in other years, we took a beach vacation to SC in late September. We see the monarchs migrating past every day. One time, I counted over 100 in about 15 minutes. This year, we saw a Lantana bush COVERED with hundreds of monarchs early in the morning. It was beautiful!
I would love to go to Mexico to see their overwintering sites, but the Mexican state where the butterflies roost is rated 4 by our state department – do not travel!
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Thanks Laurie! Monarchs are so beautiful and I saw this one in late September on a weed. It was perfect, not a single tatter in its wings. That would be beautiful to see the Monarchs en masse and on a Lantana plant which is beautiful to begin with. I read that the place in Mexico where the Monarchs congregate involves a rigorous trip to get to the actual area, but I am sure it is well worth it. Good thing you checked into whether it is good to travel there or not – yikes!
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Lovely butterfly, and the perfect colour scheme for Halloween! 🙂
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It was a perfect butterfly Debbie, which is rare for late in the season (September) when I saw it. I decided I had to save it for the Halloween color combo! 🙂
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Love it for Halloween! One Monarch Butterfly just trick or treated by me!! I noticed the double you gravitar too!!! Clever you… 😄
I sent you a hopeful, interesting and current article that you might want to share with others on your blog. 🍂
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That would be fun to see TD. I saw a group of Monarchs once at the Park. They zipped past me on a very cool, windy Fall day. I had the camera with me, but it happened so quickly, I just watched them instead of photographing them. This Monarch was back in September and had no tatters on its wings – good, since it was late in the season. Thank you again for the article – I will save it. I took some pictures of butterflies, Monarchs and Admirals (I think – I’ve not looked at the pics yet) and bees on Virginia Mountain Mint, an all white flowering plant and it looked amazing to see them.
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Today was the first day I saw a monarch butterfly. By the end of the day I had counted 11 migrating by.
I took down the hummingbird feeder as it has been a while since I’ve seen any. All mine have migrated, hope successfully.
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That would be a sight to see all of them migrating by in their Halloween colors. Our hummingbirds left a while ago, just as it finally got cooler.
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A very beautiful Hallowe’en-ish Butterfly ! Happy Hallowe’en Linda !
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This butterfly was into the spirit of Halloween with its black and orange! Happy Halloween to you as well Susan!
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The perfect Halloween butterfly!
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Yes, it was gorgeous Janis, not a tatter on its wings and dressed to impress for Halloween!
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Perfect images of the monarch to celebrate the colors of Halloween, Linda!
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Yes, it was dressed up in its finery for the holiday Terri! 🙂
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Is it just me, or are butterfly’s scary? One flew into my house one time while I was doing cabinet painting. I punched the cabinet it landed on, which not only ruined the paint, but created a nice hole in my cupboard that I had to get fixed. I will happily admire them from afar.
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Well Tricia, if you’re not expecting one and, since you were working hard painting the cabinet and it flew over and startled you, I could see how you could be scared! What if at first you thought it was a small bat, not a butterfly? I have never seen a bat, but I know they have very small species of bats and I sure would not want to see a bat, even if people say they are cute and harmless. That’s too bad it caused you a mess and a fix-it job …did the butterfly actually get stuck on the paint and then couldn’t fly or did it die when you punched the cabinet?
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This butterfly is all ready for Halloween and ready for trick or treating…all year round!
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Yes, it is dressed to impress, even in the off-season. 🙂
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That’s their natural look too!
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Yes! 🙂
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