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!

Posted on April 1, 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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34 Responses to 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!

  2. J P's avatar J P says:
    April 1, 2026 at 6:57 am

    A goose and its caboose. If the plural of goose is geese, is more than one caboose some cabeese? So many questions! 😁

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      April 1, 2026 at 7:50 pm

      JP, of course I am smacking the palm of my hand against my forehead as to why I didn’t think of the word caboose as this goose clearly has a big caboose. Once again you had a better title than me and I have to answer that I’m putting caboose/cabeese into the same category as mice/meese. 🙂

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  3. Kate Crimmins's avatar Kate Crimmins says:
    April 1, 2026 at 8:59 am

    Wonderful shot!

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  4. Laurie's avatar Laurie says:
    April 1, 2026 at 11:39 am

    Happy April Fools Day, Linda! I hope the start of April marks the beginning of your ability to range far and wide again. Get your steps and your snaps in!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      April 1, 2026 at 7:59 pm

      Same back at you Laurie! I was conflicted about whether to write about April Fool’s Day or National Walking Day, always the first Wednesday in April, which I don’t even think was mentioned on the news or social media today. It’s been a slow start to our Spring unfortunately – it is 40+ degrees colder today than yesterday, but we’ve had a lot of storms/rain. In fact, I took a screenshot of our week of weather – seven days in a row of rain coming up. I took the screenshot just in case I need to whine again for not making my walking goal again. I did notice this morning, before the raindrops fell, that a few green shoots are coming up and some green is showing up on the bushes. It’s a hopeful sign for sure! I hope your wintry weather is gone and you and Bill are getting out for a daily run.

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      • Laurie's avatar Laurie says:
        April 1, 2026 at 8:57 pm

        Our wintry weather is pretty much gone. It was 80 degrees today. Bill and I are now running every other day, but I am feeling good. Getting ready to travel again next week.

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
        April 1, 2026 at 9:15 pm

        I’m glad you’re feeling better Laurie. Every other day is good – better than I’m doing with walking and I have to step it up once this rainy spell is over. Safe travels to you and Bill!

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  6. trumstravels's avatar trumstravels says:
    April 1, 2026 at 4:41 pm

    Hopefully spring is almost here ! although we do have snow in the forecast …..blah

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      April 1, 2026 at 8:13 pm

      The weather – ugh! We have a “wintry mix” coming up in the next few days, but only a couple of weather forecasters are mentioning that, but we had rain today and will have it now for the next seven days … it was only supposed to be through Easter Sunday! I guess all of April will be rainy. I looked forward to Spring for this?!

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      • trumstravels's avatar trumstravels says:
        April 3, 2026 at 3:32 pm

        Yeah I agree, this hasn’t been a great spring so far, we are due for a ton of rain over the next week or so, maybe they will be wrong with their forecast. Fingers crossed !

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      • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
        April 3, 2026 at 6:55 pm

        We are getting a few inches of rain Saturday … torrential rain and some thunderstorms. As of now it is not severe, but it really was warm today (73F/22C) so before it gets cold on Sunday, it might be problematic … again! I hope they are wrong with our rainy forecast as well. Today, it cleared up, the the winds were humming along at 30 mph/48 kmh!

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  7. Pepper's avatar Pepper says:
    April 1, 2026 at 6:13 pm

    Not sure! It could be all three. 😂

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  10. indianeskitchen's avatar indianeskitchen says:
    April 3, 2026 at 12:16 am

    I look forward to your captions, you’re so funny! Nice picture Linda.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      April 3, 2026 at 6:51 pm

      Thank you Diane! I didn’t think that Canada Goose had such an elongated body when I saw it in real time, but it sure looked wide on the computer screen! One person commented “the goose and its caboose” and I wish I had thought of that line for a title.

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  11. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    April 3, 2026 at 3:41 am

    You are wrong, Linda. It’s not a Goose. It is a great photograph (on a computer screen) of a Goose. 😉
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      April 3, 2026 at 6:45 pm

      Thank you for the link Tom – that was interesting. Many years ago I had to take an art appreciation class as part of my core program studies. I may have read about the pipe art at that time – that was exactly one half-century ago. This Canada Goose did not strike me as all that elongated in real time while I was trying to capture the reflection, but on the screen, it was “wow!”

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  12. Vero's avatar Vero says:
    April 3, 2026 at 8:00 am

    Love your sense of humor!

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  13. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    April 4, 2026 at 8:49 am

    Or maybe a football? Nice reflection picture, Linda.

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  14. Stevens's avatar Stevens says:
    April 4, 2026 at 9:41 pm

    Miss Linda………………………..You take the best pictures ……………and………………………..Geese let you take their best pictures

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  15. Dave's avatar Dave says:
    April 7, 2026 at 10:42 am

    Trick photography? The head looks somehow displaced and out of proportion. I wish my neck were as flexible!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      April 7, 2026 at 7:58 pm

      Dave, this goose and its posture reminds me of egrets and herons … one minute their neck is outstretched as far as it goes and the next minute that neck is compact, looking like it is folded down with the head near their body. The goose was relaxed here but the angle of how it was standing made it look very elongated.

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