This ain’t easy, I feel queasy! #Wordless Wednesday #The Lotus leaf is listing! #114th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic

Posted on April 15, 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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30 Responses to This ain’t easy, I feel queasy! #Wordless Wednesday #The Lotus leaf is listing! #114th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic

  1. singlikewildflowers's avatar singlikewildflowers says:
    April 15, 2026 at 7:21 am

    This is a fabulous shot!! He’s balancing on the broad leaf with little legs.

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  2. Pepper's avatar Pepper says:
    April 15, 2026 at 7:38 am

    So cute and he is looking right at you. 😊

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  3. Barbara Rodgers's avatar Barbara Rodgers says:
    April 15, 2026 at 7:44 am

    No fun being seasick in a pond!

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  4. Dave's avatar Dave says:
    April 15, 2026 at 7:57 am

    Looking very stable on the “high seas” there. I’m reading “Dead Wake” right now, a thoroughly researched factual account of the sinking of the Lusitania during WWI. The author has mentioned the Titanic several times already, because that disaster happened just three years earlier.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      April 15, 2026 at 8:42 pm

      This bird was definitely trying hard to get his “sea legs” on that Lotus leaf! That’s interesting about the sinking of the Lusitania and I wonder if it received as much press coverage as the Titanic – maybe not as it was during WWI? Last year, for the 50th anniversary of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I watched a lot of interesting video documentaries likening that tragedy with the Titanic’s sinking. One video was narrated by John U. Bacon, based on his newly released book, that he wrote after a lot of research into the Fitzgerald’s captain, some issues with the freighter’s infrastructure and other fascinating tidbits. All these books are interesting to learn facts so many years after a tragedy.

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  5. Kate Crimmins's avatar Kate Crimmins says:
    April 15, 2026 at 8:22 am

    That bird has found a lovely ship!

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  6. J P's avatar J P says:
    April 15, 2026 at 8:23 am

    Unsinkable!

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  7. Bay Photos By Donna's avatar Bay Photos By Donna says:
    April 15, 2026 at 3:23 pm

    I would find it entertaining to watch this Red-wing’s balancing act!

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  8. trumstravels's avatar trumstravels says:
    April 15, 2026 at 4:17 pm

    He has better balance than I do !

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  9. Stevens's avatar Stevens says:
    April 15, 2026 at 9:22 pm

    This Red Winged Black bird likes taking a boat ride after there’s a lot of rain!

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  10. Terri Webster Schrandt's avatar Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    April 15, 2026 at 9:53 pm

    He’s doing a great job balancing…he can always stretch out the wings and fly, Linda.

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  11. Joni's avatar Joni says:
    April 15, 2026 at 10:00 pm

    That’s a great shot!

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  12. Anne Mehrling's avatar Anne Mehrling says:
    April 15, 2026 at 10:18 pm

    The words and that crazy shot are super.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      April 15, 2026 at 10:30 pm

      Thanks Anne! Our feathered buddy was getting a little green around the gills from the listing leaf! I saved this shot for today since I knew the Titanic anniversary would be on a Wednesday this year, so it was perfect for Wordless Wednesday.

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  14. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    April 16, 2026 at 10:29 pm

    Blackbeard, the Redwing seafaring pirate! Rrrrrrr!

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