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 
Made me laugh thanks Linda 😂
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Glad to give you a laugh Brian. This is actually a self-portrait, especially now that we’re dealing with snow and are in the Deep Freeze. Who wants to leave a warm and cozy bed?
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That would be OK if you had servants 😂
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Sadly, no servants and fat chance of winning the lottery. I stopped buying tickets years ago as I rarely got more than one number. 🙂
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Most appropriate 🙂 🙂
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Yes it is Anne, especially with our colder weather and snow settling in … it’s tough to leave the warm and cozy bed, but so tempting to roll over a little longer.
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Looks like me!
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Me too Kate, especially since the colder weather is here. Who wants to leave the warm and cozy bed?
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Ha! Ha!
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I feel “rising and shining” is highly overrated!
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Those webbed feet could be mistaken for more leaves!
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Yes, the feet and leaves do look exactly the same! Usually, when ducks sleep, they stand on only one leg, so I guess this was just a wee nap to tide her over. 🙂
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Not a morning person, just like me! 😉 Nicely done, Linda. 👌
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Thanks Debbie! It gets harder and harder to get up as early as I once did, even more so once Winter (or this Winter-like stuff we are dealing with) arrives! It was a “real feel” of 0F (-17 C) and it’s snowing again!
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That’s horribly cold! 🥶
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Yes, it’s been awful here Debbie. We’ll be even colder tomorrow morning than today. I’m dripping taps, leaving cupboard doors open and doing a few small loads of laundry to keep the pipes warm. We have snow coming almost every day beginning Sunday according to two forecasters. Not my kind of Fall at all!
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Nice close up pictures Linda! It looks like she wants to go back to sleep in the last picture.
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Thanks Diane! I think she reluctantly popped her head up to take a look and what she saw wasn’t so interesting, so yes, she went back to sleep after I took the second shot. I was going to put a third picture there of her napping again and figured it looked identical to the first shot. 🙂
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It’s a COLD Winter Wet Wordless Wednesday here, Linda. Perhaps this duck was dreading what was to come.
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It’s very dreary here too TD. It was a “real feel” of 0 degrees when I got up this morning and it’s very windy and snowing again. I dread to think what the weather will be come “real Winter”.
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It’s hard to rise and shine when it’s cold. I still haven’t been able to train my husband to bring me coffee in bed.
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Yes, it is Janis. After a beautiful Fall, we are suddenly in this snowy, very windy, bitterly cold weather pattern which has not been kind to my walking regimen at all, so it makes getting up even tougher. I think you ought to negotiate on that little nicety … maybe a New Year’s resolution?
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Great before and after pic, Linda!
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Thanks Terri! Another year older for you and may make it more difficult to get up as early too! (Just kidding – hope it was a good one!)
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Just like me before I have had my morning coffee! 😂
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Me too Laurie – after my morning coffee, I’m a different person!
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Just like me before I have had my morning coffee! 😂
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Well, good morning, sleepy head! I love the way a sunbeam is warming up her feet.
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I caught this sweetie catching 40 winks. 🙂 I love the sunbeam warming her feet too Barbara. It was a beautiful October day.
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Miss Linda……………………………………..Hello everyone I’m ready to go!
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It’s amazing how a wee nap can restoreth the soul Ann Marie!
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Great pics, Linda! My morning routine is to wake up, look around, and go back to sleep.
Cool that there were duck-like birds way back in the Cretaceous period.
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Thanks Tom! She was apparently comfortable with me as she put her head back under her wing after I took the second picture. I didn’t even have to bribe her with a treat! This horribly cold, snowy and icy weather makes you want to crawl right back under the covers. It’s too early for this wintry mess. We’re retired now … we had many years of being up at the crack of dawn to go to work and now we get a break!
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Ugh winter! Is it as cold there as here? We broke a record last night -18.3 Celsius, it was sooo cold! and no better today. I really want spring to come and I bet that duck does too lol
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Yes, this wintry blast continues here too. But you guys were colder than us. We were 5F (-15C) and it broke the old record from 1974. Plus, we have snow almost every day starting Sunday morning through next Saturday! That poor duck. I feel sorry for them in the Winter. I was at Heritage Park (where this photo was taken) once on a bitter cold day. There are lots of ducks here at this park and they were all huddled together in a line on the ice near the covered bridge. It made an interesting photo but they looked so miserable.
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It’s funny why they don’t fly down south and get warm. If I could, I would lol We are supposed to get snow today too. We hardly have any on the ground right now and I hope it stays that way!!
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Our Robins hang around all Winter now, so there goes the happiness of seeing the first Robin in Spring … now (for me) it is seeing the first Red-winged Blackbird at the Park or a marsh. We are getting 1-2 more inches of snow tonight into Sunday morning. I am already done with this fake Winter and snow!
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I read a meme today, The thing I like best about winter is……………..When it’s over !! lol that is me to a tee. It’s snowing here too Linda but at least it has warmed up to -4 Celsius! Yes I agree about the robins, it used to be the first sign of spring and was exciting when you saw one.
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That meme suits me to a tee too Susan! We had about three inches of wet, heavy snow last night and some melted with the sun, but then we are in the deep freeze again tonight (real feel of 0 degrees around midnight). We’re not getting warmer until near Christmas. Too late now by then for me to recoup my miles and with the refreeze overnight, tomorrow is a “no walk” day then two days of snow. Ugh!
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Your weather sounds so much like our weather. We had a LOT of snow yesterday but today is just plain cold. We are supposed to get another big dump or blizzard on Wednesday. The thing I like best about winter is when it’s over lol
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Today was back in the deep freeze for us and more snow overnight, freezing rain by mid-day and some wintry mix on Wednesday morning. I have to remember that line and use it sometime because it is so true, especially already with this faux Winter we have now. I remember once, years ago, we had Winter-like weather started in late November and it seemed I was out there daily shoveling every day for months before I left for work. It was a very bad Winter. I took the bus to work in Downtown Detroit and just had a short walk to get to the bus stop, but I took one bus earlier than I’d need to as buses ran late in Winter, so I wonder now how I did it … it wears me out thinking about it!
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It started snowing yesterday afternoon and it’s still snowing. We’ve got quite a lot of snow and all the schools were closed and a lot of things were canceled today. I hope it stops. I have to take my car in for an appointment early tomorrow morning.☹️
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Ugh – it sounds like our weather. Parts of the area here got six inches (15 cm.) of snow early this morning – we were on the light side with three inches of snow, but it was mixed with rain, but then we got regular rain. Everything has already iced up from the melting ice/snow and is causing accidents. It WOULD just have to be a day you have to go somewhere – good luck with that drive Susan. I had an allergy shots appointment this morning but I cancelled it as I knew it would be crummy this morning. It’s just shots from the nurse, so I’ll have to go another time.
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Yes hopefully this is it for snow for a while!
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Let’s hope so for both our sakes!
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These pictures and the comments have me yawning, even though it’s the middle of the day!
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I know JP – it is the power of suggestion isn’t it? How nice to be able to tuck your head under your wing for a wee nap anytime!
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