Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Don’t be a turkey – click here!
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 
Smart turkey!
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Yes, running for the hills before someone eyes it for dinner. 🙂 P.S. – glad you liked the card. I was concerned people might not see the link. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Have a relaxing Thanksgiving, Linda! Our wild turkeys are strangely absent here. Friday they’ll all be back! 🦃
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Thank you Terri – it will be a relaxing Thanksgiving as we’re having day 2 of 40-45 mph winds and freezing rain overnight. Not great for the travelers, or our big Thanksgiving Day parade. Your turkeys are wise, that’s for sure!
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Good choice for Tom’s dinner.
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Yes, ham works for them for sure Dawn! 🙂
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You got some good turkey photos, Linda! We are at my Oregon son’s house for Thanksgiving. Their wooded neighborhood has a resident flock of wild turkeys. I love seeing them strut along the street! I know you are originally Canadian, but will you eat turkey tomorrow?
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Thank you Laurie! I finally got a photo of a turkey with its fanned-out tail feathers which made me happy, even if only peeking through the brush. I wish I could get closer to them, but they hang out in a very rustic area with tall grass and due to our abundance of ticks, I stayed on the path. I’d love to see them strutting out in the open like you see there in Oregon. I remember once your whole family gathered for Thanksgiving, probably before COVID, at a resort I think. That’s nice you’re visiting there for Thanksgiving and hopefully the weather is good there. Ours is lousy with 40-45 mph winds today/tomorrow and freezing rain early Thanksgiving morning. I’ve been walking my socks off so this is a setback for a bit. For Thanksgiving I am having turkey, but making it as a crockpot meal, with green bean casserole and Durkey onion rings and stuffing on top! Happy Thanksgiving!
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Loved those dragonflies! Happy Thanksgiving, Linda!!! 🦃🦃🦃
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Yes, flitting about in the card, which is something different for this time of year. I still haven’t looked at my photos taken in early Fall where I might have gotten a dragonfly on one long walk. It will be quite a big job when I finally settle in to go through those pictures. These turkeys were near the Environmental Interpretive Center where they hang around a rustic area. I did not get any closer as it’s quite overgrown with grass and brush, so I steered clear to not come home with ticks. Back at you Barbara!
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Such wonderful photos and the perfect ecard for a nature lover!
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Thank you Linda! This is the first time I got a photo of a turkey with its tail feathers fanned out, so I had to find an ecard with a turkey with its feathers fanned out as well. I wish I could get closer to this group of turkeys, but it was in an overgrown area and I didn’t want ticks to hitchhike onto me.
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Amen! Ticks are just… *shudder*
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I had one in my ear in 2024, but luckily it didn’t attach. I’m overprotective of myself, but we had an influx of tick bite cases in the E.R. in 2025, so I have a reason to be careful. You can buy clothing to thwart ticks, but I’m wearing sun protection clothing as I don’t like to use sunscreen when using the camera.
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Jacquie Lawson cards are so amazing. Thanks!
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Yes, I am constantly in awe of her creative team’s talents – glad you enjoyed the card Eilene!
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Cute card Linda ! We had wild turkeys running through our campsite just before our Canadian Thanksgiving. I kept telling them to run and hide ! lol
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Glad you liked the card Susan! Good for you, helping those turkeys out. These turkeys stayed in the bushes for the most part, making it difficult for me to get clear pictures of them and I didn’t want to traipse through the long grass with all the ticks. Still they were wary of me, even though it was long before Thanksgiving. 🙂
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Great title Linda! Did you make that up? I read this Wednesday night as I was getting into bed. Laughed all night long. On Thanksgiving morning, Yorkie was very excited to see that Tom didn’t make it to grandma’s house for spiral-ham but landed on her plate smoked for dinner! Tom the turkey was delicious for the both of us!🦃🦃
We hope that your turkey crockpot recipe was yummy to your tummy. You might have cooked up Tom’s cousin. 🦃
Great card for your post!!! So fitting with the themes that you enjoy writing about the nature critters. 🍂
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Teri, I’m glad you liked the title of the post and yes I made it up. Many years ago, long before the internet, I saw a fax coversheet from a client and it had a ink drawing of a turkey holding up a sign “Enjoy Ham this Thanksgiving!” So I was thinking of that drawing when I wrote this title.
Your dinner sounds very good. I did enjoy my crockpot dinner and, like everyone else I will have leftovers. I bought the turkey in a package, already cooked, to throw into the crockpot. I cut it up into smaller pieces first. It is Oscar Mayer Carving Board turkey – it comes in thick slices like you would get if you carved it from the turkey yourself.
I’m glad you liked the card … Jacquie Lawson has a lot of cards for each holiday, so I wanted a turkey fanning its feathers like my turkey fanning its feathers and I found this one. I’ll do the same thing for my Christmas post and try to match the card to the post.
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Oh yes, Oscar! Tom’s cousin for sure!! 😄
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Ha ha – yes, Oscar, I love it!
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As i have mentioned before, the wild Turkeys in our area are very elusive (due to the many hunters in the area). Great shots!!!!!!
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Thank you Tom! I don’t blame your wild Turkeys for being elusive. These four turkeys were near a nature center on the Henry and Clara Ford Estate grounds. They were spooked by me and ran through the brush and I was not going to go after them – who knows what was in that tall grass and brush and most likely ticks.
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Yes, i would not go anywhere where ticks might be. My arthritis is bad enough without ticks contributing to a lot more. Ticks are getting worse (and more numerous) each year in the Midwest, and that should be a big concern to everyone. They have vaccines for ticks for dogs but not for humans.
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No, ticks are not to be trifled with at all. I stay away like you do Tom. The turkeys have to be viewed from afar – I saw them three times this year, all in the same location, not clearly visible for photos. Yesterday at the Park, I was speaking with a woman who was walking her dog and the subject of ticks came up. She has a Labradoodle and it has curly fur. The dog got three ticks in one day in her own backyard and she lives in a residential neighborhood, not a rural area. She told me she uses a natural tick deterrent which is a collar which has natural unpolished amber beads. The beads give a static charge that prevents ticks from clinging onto its fur. She said that if a tick does try to get onto the dog, it cannot attach and fill itself with the dog’s blood. She said it was better than using chemicals and this is safe and costs about $40.00 for the collar which lasts one year. I am wondering if it was possible to use the collar around a human’s socks or long pants. I only wear long pants (with sun protection). I am going to research it a little over the Winter. I don’t see that it could hurt. The outdoor company REI has tick repellent clothing, but for me I just stay away from woods once the ticks are out and stay on paved pathways. I worry more about sun damage especially near shorelines where I often walk.
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So, are they serving turkey at the pigs’ grandma’s house? 🙂
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Ha ha – your comment made my day JP! Yes, no ham, bacon or sausage shall touch the pigs’ lips at their grandma’s house. 🙂
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Your blog title reminds me of those Chick-fil-A cows (“eat mor chikin”) 🙂
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That’s funny – I’ve never been to Chick-fil-A, nor seen their ads. Years ago, we had a client fax something to the office around Thanksgiving and the fax coversheet had a pen-and-ink, hand-drawn turkey holding up a sign “Enjoy ham this Thanksgiving!” That was long before the internet, memes, AI – just good, clean fun and sharing some holiday spirit.
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We left fast-food behind years ago, but the one very occasional exception is Chick-fil-A. It’s a very good sandwich; about as healthy as you can get from a large-scale chain.
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I do aim to try Chick-fil-A some day. One finally opened not far from me, causing big traffic jams for a while as people lined up to try it out. I know some folks slept outside to be first in line to get a sandwich every day for a year.
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We rarely see turkeys here, we scared them all up north, you’re welcome!🤣
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Really? Thank you for sending them here Diane! 🙂 I wish I’d see more of them. I see these four turkeys nearly every time I go to the Environmental Interpretive Center. They hang out in the bushes and tall grass (full of ticks or I’d step closer to them). Once they were on the Gateway Trail and I didn’t see them crossing ahead of me as I was looking up in a tree to find a Goldfinch I heard singing … turned around and they were crossing very quickly. All I captured were the last one’s tail feathers!
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