Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.
Linda Schaub
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Linda Schaub
- 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!
- Mixin’ and minglin’ on the cusp of Fall …
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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 
Linda, the colors are vivid and springy! So pretty and with the days getting longer, you’re going to find so much more.
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They are like a breath of fresh air to our Winter-weary souls, that’s for sure Esther. Unfortunately, they are last year’s wildflowers that I saved for Spring 2026. 🙂
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We are just starting to see the early daffodils here. Looking forward to more flowers. They soothe the soul!
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Kate, I wish I could say these are from this year, but I saw them in 2025 and saved them for this year. All I’ve seen here are some bedraggled-looking Snowdrops. Lucky you seeing Daffodils already!
P.S. – I got an e-mail from WP today that I have to do this: “Time to refresh your site’s background image” and it must be done by June 15th. I figured that meant my theme which I have been expecting as you and I were discussing as our themes are similar and older. It is just the color combination. I have posts done and scheduled until April 22nd, so I don’t think I want to mess with it, even though the video I watched looks easy. My luck, there would be some issue and I’d launch eight posts all at one time!
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What theme do you use? I use one from 2011! Every time I’ve looked to update it didn’t seem worth the effort.
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I just looked as I was 100% sure it was Twenty-Eleven and it is Twenty-Ten. I have heard from WordPress (an AI-generated answer, but I thanked them and got a human Happiness Engineer reply for my thank you). They assured me it is NOT a theme change, just a background color change. They said it won’t affect my previously scheduled posts. I was going to do it now, but we have severe weather coming in around 2:00 or 3:00 and it is already rumbling out there. I don’t want to change my theme – I like “simple”.
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Beautiful harbingers of warm sunny days to come!
Love it!
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Laurie, I figured we needed something Spring-y looking to brighten our days. These are from last year and I put them away for this year. All we have so far are our bedraggled-looking Snowdrops!
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Spring is here!
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It doesn’t come a moment too soon either JP! I hope the snow has taken a hike for good.
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Wildflowers in any season or even last year’s are always beautiful to see, Linda! Spring will visit you soon!
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I agree with you about the beautiful wildflowers Terri. The Environmental Interpretive Center naturalist posted pictures of these wildflowers he saw while walking on the trail, so I went there the next day to see them. We are supposed to warm up next week, thankfully, but tomorrow we get to about 70, but it comes with severe weather (again).
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Are you seeing these already? I need to get out to the woods.d
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Dawn, I knew I should have put “Full disclosure – these are from 2025” … unfortunately I’ve only seen some bedraggled-looking Snowdrops and that’s it.
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I can’t wait to see flowers springing up around here !
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Same here, so far we only have bedraggled-looking Snowdrops. Unfortunately, these are 2025’s beauties!
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So pretty. I can’t wait for them to pop up out of the ground. 😉
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Yes, me too Pepper. I guess all this rain and today’s warm weather might help them out.
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Seems like it should. 😊
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If only our weather would stay consistent … tonight we have snow showers and then it’s warm on Tuesday with another shot at severe weather that day!
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Impossible to keep up with from day to day.
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I agree Pepper. I was sitting here at the computer and all of a sudden, the little weather icon flashed “one inch of snow next Thursday” – say it isn’t snow!
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Noooooo! I had not seen that but you are right. 😜 That’s okay. It won’t last. It won’t last. It won’t last. 😁
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Yes, that’s true it won’t last. We have a wild and wacky week of weather, rain every day (chance of snow Thursday) this week. My walking regimen is taking a beating.
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So sorry about that, Linda. I know walking in this type of weather is not pleasant at all.
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Well Pepper, I am keeping it in perspective with all the severe weather going around. I used to walk a lot in the Winter, unless it was icy, but I never remember all these extreme windy days either. By mid-March I was well on my way to my first 75-100 miles. I just got back online a few minutes ago and looked at two weather reports and now the first clear and storm-free day is Easter Sunday. Well, that is good to have nice weather for church services and picture-taking of kids in their Easter outfits and their Easter baskets. Now I’ll worry about this severe weather for Monday night through Tuesday night. I went to see these two weather forecasts and both of them were live-streaming right now about the upcoming severe weather. I didn’t watch it – will wait until tomorrow in case it fizzles out. I was grateful we didn’t get the severe weather on Thursday that was predicted.
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Yes, probably best to wait and see. 😉
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these were a floral lift – so lovely
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Wildflowers are such a reward after toughing out the Winter. They do make you happy to see them!
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here are some vitual flowers for a hello – 🌼💐🌸🌷
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I enjoyed them – thank you. We have snow flurries tonight, so no seeing or sniffing any sweet flowers here for awhile yet!
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🌞 – well I hope you stay snug as a bug indoors
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It is a good thing that I enjoy my indoor hobbies too Yvette. I was at my computer and saw the little weather icon display “1 inch of snow next Thursday” – sigh.
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🫖☕️🧡
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Yay, spring!!! Love those lungworts.
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Yes, so delicate and pretty! (Unfortunately they were from 2025 – we have a way to go for wildflowers yet.)
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I love your new background!
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Thank you Barbara! It wasn’t planned though. I got an e-mail and a notification from WordPress Tuesday that I had to change my background/color scheme by June 15th for technical reasons. So, I contacted them to verify this was just the background and not my theme as I am a month ahead on my posts, something rare for me, maybe a week or two, but not eight posts ahead. Anyway, they were nice and assured me it was a few steps only and would not mess up anything. So I picked flowers again – they are a nice, muted background and much different than the former bright background!
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Wow Linda….that’s amazing that you have seen all those. All I’ve seen is snowdrops, but I haven’t been to any wooded areas.
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They are beautiful aren’t they Joni? I should have put a disclaimer in the title because they were wildflowers from 2025 and I saved them to use for when Spring had sprung (on the calendar anyway) in 2026. I didn’t see these beauties until April 24th. I remember this date specifically because I saw a post by the Environmental Interpretive Center naturalist where he took photos of the wildflowers he saw on this trail. So I went the next day on that trail, a day where it was unusually hot and got to 85 with a “real feel” of 90 by the time I got to the car in early afternoon. I had walked six miles total but I got three posts’ worth of photos. The wildflowers were very pretty, springing up all along the trail. We’ve only got Snowdrops too and they’re looking pretty raggedy from the heavy rain, all the wind and cold temps. We were below freezing several mornings, tomorrow too, despite reaching 70 today.
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Aw….I thought you were having an earlier spring than us. It snowed last night, wet flakes but on the grass…gone this morning, but it is cold.
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No, unfortunately we are having pretty much the same weather as you are Joni. We did not get the snow (and even ice in some places) that the northern suburbs got last night, but we have some crazy weather the next week – severe weather on Tuesday throughout the day as we have another heat spoke and next Thursday we get an inch of snow. More and more I am glad I reduced my miles in my walking regimen to 1,000 miles from 1,256 miles, but is it going to be reduced even more down the road?
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Pretty Pretty!
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Yes, unfortunately a little awhile yet to see them yet Donna. This was last year on April 24th. I saw the naturalist at the Environmental Interpretive Center posted about seeing them on the trail, so I hurried and went there the next day and saved their “debut” for a Spring 2026 post.
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Sweet pics, Linda! Tomorrow i have to go for a CT Scan at the hospital. I have to fast and not even drink… then i have to drink that creepy Contrast potion, which i think is iodine. Yuk!
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Thanks Tom! Your Forget-me-Nots were much more identifiable and gorgeous. About 15 years ago, I bought some Forget-me-Not seeds to sprinkle around the backyard in between the bushes to give a little color to the yard in the Spring, but never again! It was the first time I had ever sown seeds and they took alright! They spread quickly, were invasive and every Spring, I’d pull out handfuls of them as they weren’t small plants, but leggy and looked horrible. I’ve finally gotten rid of them and appreciate them more along a trail where Spring wildflowers are always a joy to see. We are having snow flurries here overnight. I hope your CT scan went well – this is a follow-up to your bout of pancreatitis I’m assuming. Hopefully, you don’t come home glowing in the dark!
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I have never heard of trout lilies or lungworts Linda. Beautiful flowers on all of them but I LOVE the leaves on the lungwort!
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Yes, those spotted leaves are unusual aren’t they Diane? I follow the Environmental Interpretive Center on Facebook and saw the naturalist took a walk on this trail and he had pointed out all the flowers and their names, so I went the very next day. Unfortunately, it was 2025, not this year, where we are still having snow a’flyin’.
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The lungworts look like little trumpets 😃
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Yes, they are kind of cute aren’t they? Especially with their spotted leaves!
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