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Linda Schaub
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Linda Schaub
- Is that a Canada Goose, a canoe, or a torpedo? #Wordless Wednesday #April Fool’s Day – yes, you silly goose … of course it’s a goose!
- Ribbits and Rabbits!
- Early Spring Wildflowers #Wordless Wednesday #Along a woodsy trail: #1-Trout Lilies, #2-Wild Violets, #3-Lungworts, #4-Forget-me-Nots
- Bear with me …
- Be quick with a quip and caption this pic! #Wordless Wednesday #Celebrating six years of continuous WW posts!
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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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Love these bee images. Now I can’t get the music “The Flight of the Bumblebee” out of my head. 😁
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Thank you Pepper! I thought the title might become an earworm. 🙂 I was lucky that the in-flight bee was over the sidewalk where the planter was sitting, so the plain background worked well here.
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Love it when those “right place, right time” moments happen. 😉
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Yes, me too!
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That burst of color has me ready for spring!
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Yes, I agree Dave. The brilliant purple was stunning! We have odd weather today which feels very Spring-like, almost 60 degrees!
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That purple was so welcome on a dreary day!
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Yes, I think so too – it is Verbena. I’ve never had that flower before, but it was mid-September, after all that long hot Summer and it was still going strong. We had dreary weather too, but it got to 60 degrees, although foggy a good part of the day.
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It’s in the mid 50s at 8 am, so these shots are really timely!
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Yes, same warm temps for us too … we ended up at about 60 but it’s been foggy most of the day. Think Spring!
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Bee-utiful! Love the purple backdrop!
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Wish I’d thought of “bee-utiful” Barbara! 🙂 Yes, those purple Verbena were stunning and just dripping out of a big planter. The bee zipped over the sidewalk to the planter, so it made its wings-in-flight path look better.
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Loved your title and those bees hanging in midair!
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Thanks Anne! My first bees in flight, enroute to a flower, so that was fun to capture.
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Wonderful captures of the bee in flight, Linda! Lovely purples in the flowers.
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Thank you Terri! That was a first for me to get the bee in flight. I was lucky he was zipping across the sidewalk to a planter so he had an unobstructed background. Those are Verbena and I’ve never grown them, but considering how fabulous they looked in mid-September after our hot Summer, it might be worth a try. I have to put it on your Flower Hour site right now.
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Great pics, I love the colour purple, it’s my favourite.
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Thank you Susan! I like purple too and also purple and yellow paired together, two very vibrant colors.
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Wonderful flight shots, Linda! They do live up to their ‘busy as a bee’ motto!
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Thank you Donna! My first bee in-flight shots. I was lucky that the bee was zipping along over a sidewalk to the planter, so you can see those wings whirring! Yes, always busy, those bees!
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These bumblebee photos took me back to my childhood, Linda. We used to catch the bees with a white spot in the middle of their heads with our bare hands. They do not have stingers! The ones in your photos are not that kind. I saw their heads are all black.
Thanks for the wonderful summertime pictures!
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Thanks Laurie – all the Summer shots will help us have warm memories and get us to Spring hopefully. We had 60 degrees today and I just heard a rumble of thunder. Crazy weather! That is amazing that you could catch bees like that and not get stung. When I was still living in Canada, we had two brothers in the neighborhood (ages 6 and 8) and they used to catch bees and cup them in their hands too … bees and grasshoppers as I recall. I wonder if they were the same type of bees? I think they did to impress us girls who were around the same age. 🙂
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Beautiful captures! It’s a little hard to believe that those chubby bees can get airborne… but I’m glad they do!
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Thank you Janis! I was excited to get photos of my first in-flight bees! Yes, this bee was chubby. It was mid-September and it had been feasting on pollen all Summer.
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Your pictures make me anxious for spring! Nice job capturing the bee in flight!
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Thank you Diane! It was my first time being lucky to capture a bee in flight. The bee is usually already on the blossom. This was a huge planter in the City square and so in mid-air, the bee was over the sidewalk, so it was not a cluttered background. That was Verbena and looking nice considering we had such a hot Summer and it was already mid-September.
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Sweet Bumblebee shots, Linda! I used to play the Flight of the Bumblebee on the accordion. That was many years ago.
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Thank you Tom! That was my first time to capture the bee in flight, so I was pretty excited. I have not heard the song in many years but I, too, played the accordion … I remember Lady of Spain and Bicycle Built for Two. We used to give recitals in nursing homes. I took lessons from age seven to ten, then we moved to the States and could not find any accordion teachers, so that was it.
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This was me after I got my full-sized accordion. I had a little red accordion with just 12 bass buttons.

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Beautiful photos, Linda, and such a beautiful purple color on the flowers. I enjoy watching the bees buzz around the flowers and walk on their dainty petals.
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Thank you Rebecca! My first bee-in-flight pictures so I was excited to get them. This was a planter filled with Verbena in a city square, so the bee was flying over the sidewalk, which was great as there was no background colors making it easier to see it flying.
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