Salute to Heart Month! #Wordless Wednesday #A pair of bees in a “Wishes ‘n Dreams” Dahlia.

Posted on February 4, 2026 by Linda Schaub

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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About Linda Schaub

This is my first blog and I enjoy writing each post immensely. I started a walking regimen in 2011 and in 2013 I decided to create a blog as a means of memorializing the people, places and things seen on my daily walks. I have always enjoyed people watching, so my blog is peppered with folks I meet or reflections of characters I have known through the years. Often something piques my interest, or evokes a pleasant memory from my memory bank, so this becomes a “slice o’ life” blog post. I respect and appreciate nature and my interactions with Mother Nature’s gifts is also a common theme. Sometimes the most-ordinary items become fodder for points to ponder over and touch upon. I retired in March 2024 after a career in the legal field. I was a legal secretary for almost 45 years, primarily working in downtown Detroit, then working from my home. I graduated from Wayne State University with a degree in Mass Communications (print journalism) in 1978, though I’ve never worked in that field. I would like to think this blog is the writer in me finally emerging!! Walking and writing have met, shaken hands and the creative juices are flowing in Walkin’, Writin’, Wit & Whimsy. I hope you think so too. - Linda Schaub
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41 Responses to Salute to Heart Month! #Wordless Wednesday #A pair of bees in a “Wishes ‘n Dreams” Dahlia.

  2. Pepper's avatar Pepper says:
    February 4, 2026 at 7:41 am

    A beautiful pic to tell a story. 😊

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  3. J P's avatar J P says:
    February 4, 2026 at 7:43 am

    They look busy. 😛

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  4. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    February 4, 2026 at 7:57 am

    Busy bees found a lovely place to do their work!

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  5. Kate Crimmins's avatar Kate Crimmins says:
    February 4, 2026 at 8:02 am

    They shared nicely!

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  6. Dave's avatar Dave says:
    February 4, 2026 at 8:44 am

    That’d bee a spectacular photo bees or no bees!

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  8. Terri Webster Schrandt's avatar Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    February 4, 2026 at 10:35 am

    So pretty, Linda, and a wonderful pic of the bees hanging around the dahlia. Love was in the air!

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  9. Laurie's avatar Laurie says:
    February 4, 2026 at 1:55 pm

    Perfect post and picture for this time of year, Linda. Sorry I have been MIA lately. we have been on the West Coast visiting our twin granddaughters. Love, love, love those little girls!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      February 4, 2026 at 8:49 pm

      Hi Laurie – I thought you might be somewhere warmer than PA! You picked a good time to get away with all the snow at home. I know you and Bill are spoiling those little girls. Time flies as it seems like you were just telling me about helping out these first-time parents with the brand-new twin babies! Flowers and bees = Summer and I thought we needed a dose of Summer to get over this Winter hump!

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  10. trumstravels's avatar trumstravels says:
    February 4, 2026 at 4:58 pm

    Beautiful flower and the little bees ! I bet they will be glad for spring to come too lol

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  11. Stevens's avatar Stevens says:
    February 5, 2026 at 4:38 pm

    Miss Linda………………………..that beautiful colorful flower the Dahlia, will lift anyone’s spirits…………………..even though there are 2 bees close to it…………………………..

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      February 5, 2026 at 8:49 pm

      Yes, that was a beautiful Dahlia Ann Marie. I’ve never seen that variety before with the single petals or even that color combo. Then I was lucky to see the bees nuzzling down into the pollen and I hurried up and took the picture. I’ll have a few more bee-related posts down the pipeline as we stay in this wintry weather.

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  12. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    February 5, 2026 at 10:17 pm

    Nice to see bees sharing the bounty!
    For right now, too much freezing and too much ice!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      February 6, 2026 at 8:49 pm

      I hope they all make it back Tom! Only so many of them can fit in the “bee hotels” and the leaves didn’t fall on the ground in many places (here in SE Michigan included) until after the snow fell. I have a bush where the sparrows flock to and seek refuge and the leaves are now brown, but they are continuing to drop and the leaves are sitting on top of the snow. Crazy weather!

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  14. indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
    February 6, 2026 at 10:37 pm

    Are you sure you don’t pull up a chair and wait for shots like this? I have never had Dahlia flowers, very pretty!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      February 7, 2026 at 7:43 pm

      Ha ha – no I did not Diane. That was just a lucky shot … two bees in a bloom. I never had Dahlias either. A fellow blogger decided to plant them and wrote she had to remove all the bulbs in the Fall, then replant them in the Spring again. Too much work … I will look at them at a garden like here. 🙂

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      • indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
        February 9, 2026 at 11:43 pm

        In my younger days I did that with canna’s flowers and they multiplied every year, a lot! I started with a few in a half barrel and ended up with a huge circle of them. I also did it with glads. Never again!

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
        February 10, 2026 at 8:57 pm

        Yes, the bulbs are a lot of work. We had cannas in the planter’s box when we lived in Canada. I don’t remember them as much as I do the hummingbirds that visited them. I think I’ve mentioned before that my father wanted tulips and ordered some from Halland and planted them all over the side and front of the house the first Fall after we moved here. In the Spring he was doing Spring yard clean-up and found all the tulip bulbs, half chewed up (squirrels) all over the yard. He was mad and only one tulip took and it was under a birch tree in the front yard … the tree got birch borer disease, but before it did, every year, this one tulip would come up. 🙂

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  15. Rebecca's avatar Rebecca says:
    February 7, 2026 at 4:14 pm

    A sharp, beautiful shot, Linda. Very neat to get two bees in the flower at the same time.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      February 7, 2026 at 7:50 pm

      Thank you Rebecca! That was a lucky shot to get both bees in one flower. I’ve never seen single-petal Dahlias before and being two-toned with reds and pinks made it perfect for Heart Month.

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  16. Amorina Rose's avatar Amorina Rose says:
    February 9, 2026 at 5:27 am

    Nature at its best.

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