In the limelight. #Wordless Wednesday #Great Blue Heron #Lean, mean and green!

Posted on June 17, 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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40 Responses to In the limelight. #Wordless Wednesday #Great Blue Heron #Lean, mean and green!

  1. Anne Mehrling's avatar Anne Mehrling says:
    June 17, 2026 at 6:47 am

    Love the lime in title and color!

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  3. Dave's avatar Dave says:
    June 17, 2026 at 7:53 am

    You’re a pro when it comes to wordplay, Linda 😉

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  4. Pepper's avatar Pepper says:
    June 17, 2026 at 8:54 am

    A perfect title for this post and a great photo. Love the reflection of the heron. 👍🏽

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  5. Terri Webster Schrandt's avatar Terri Webster Schrandt says:
    June 17, 2026 at 10:30 am

    Great shot of the heron, Linda! Its reflection surrounded by all that green looks amazing!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 17, 2026 at 5:52 pm

      Thanks Terri! I was bummed when there were zero ducks at the duck pond when I was hoping to find some Wood Ducks, but this bright green reflection and the heron’s reflection made up for it. 🙂

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  6. singlikewildflowers's avatar singlikewildflowers says:
    June 17, 2026 at 2:57 pm

    This is an amazing shot!

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  7. Joni's avatar Joni says:
    June 17, 2026 at 5:09 pm

    It’s very green!!!

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  8. ruthsoaper's avatar ruthsoaper says:
    June 17, 2026 at 7:55 pm

    It does look like “lime” light. Funny,

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 17, 2026 at 8:58 pm

      Yes, like it’s a pond filled with lime Jell-o! This is the duck pond at the Ford Estate and I was hoping to see a few Wood Ducks and saw the heron in the green reflections instead. I sent you some info for your daughter in a separate comment with some links to sites to get her started. Be sure to have her check out the YouTube channels for all three artists … there is lots of basic info, drawing/painting to kind of “test-drive” first to see if you like their style. It’s been raining steadily for hours … I hope the severe stuff fizzles out.

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  9. ruthsoaper's avatar ruthsoaper says:
    June 17, 2026 at 8:00 pm

    Linda, this is an off-topic question. I think in the past you had mentioned online art classes you were taking. Do you have a link or a website for those. My daughter is interested in sketching classes and right now online classes would work best for her.

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 17, 2026 at 8:50 pm

      Hi Ruth – I’m happy to share the info and I hope your daughter enjoys the online classes.

      I would suggest your daughter try Julia Bausenhardt as I enjoyed her classes very much and they are all nature related. I have given you the YouTube channel and you can find lots of free, full-length tutorials there to try her out before investing in a course.

      Julia has a blog and if you go on her blog site, you’ll see the various courses you can take. She does step-by-step for drawing, then watercolor painting. You pay for each course and I took about five courses with Julia, then she had some health issues, so I found another artist. I still liked Julia best and I liked her content best (nature). She speaks perfect English and she speaks slowly and is thorough.

      Here is her blog, which is free and she gives lots of ideas and I get the blog by e-mail and did for years while I was still working, though I took no courses until last year.
      https://juliabausenhardt.com/blog/

      On the blog page is her courses (keep scrolling down here – the birds, butterflies, flowers I took are down the page a little):
      https://juliabausenhardt.com/courses/

      *** Tell your daughter to see how she likes Julia by trying out her YouTube channel. Julia has lots of free, long tutorials, some are the exact same as you would pay for. So, do this first. Here is Julia’s YouTube channel:
      https://www.youtube.com/c/NatureSketchbook

      The second artist’s name is Ellen Crimi-Trent. I saw her on Facebook where she did “shorts” which were short videos, but there was not enough step-by-step in those videos, so I signed up for her online classes. Ellen does things differently. I signed up for $8.00/month last Fall and you get about four or five new videos per week. I am not so keen on a lot of her abstract paintings, but I like her holiday paintings, which are cute and whimsical. Ellen also has a vast collection of prior videos, so you search for a topic and she often has multiple videos and they are easy to find and categorized well. She does all her videos on YouTube, so once you pick the picture to draw/paint, you click it and go to YouTube. Ellen also gives you traceable PDFs for each of her paintings. I don’t use the traceables as I don’t have a printer and I prefer to draw them – she does show you how to draw them, but briefly as she gives you the traceable – I use it as an example before I paint. I signed up for watercolor only – you can sign up for her acrylics only or combine them for a little more money.

      Here is Ellen’s website:
      https://www.patreon.com/cw/ellencrimitrent

      Here is her YouTube site … like Julia, you can get the feel of if you like her style or not and there are plenty of videos there to try out, even long tutorials.
      https://www.youtube.com/@ellencrimitrent

      I have a Canadian woman artist, Emma Jane LeFebvre, I’ve been following for a while, but I’ve not committed to signing up for her monthly tutorials … they are more reasonable, $2.50 a month. Ellen has plenty – right now I’m trying to get out and get photos for my blog so I don’t run out over Winter. I like this woman’s style too, some flowers, nature, fun stuff. Here is her YouTube channel:
      https://www.youtube.com/@EmmaLefebvre

      Hope this helps get your daughter started!

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  10. lindalouslife's avatar lindalouslife says:
    June 18, 2026 at 12:57 am

    Such a nice, subtle reflection.

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  11. Stevens's avatar Stevens says:
    June 18, 2026 at 10:23 am

    Miss Linda………………………………….I didn’t know that GBH’s were considered mean……………..they are skittish if you come to close and fly to the opposite side of the pond…………………………….I like watching them eat fish……………………………………

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 18, 2026 at 6:53 pm

      Ann Marie, I was thinking mean as they always squawk at you like you are terrorizing them, for no reason at all, and then they fly away. I like watching the herons eat fish too and a few weeks ago I saw a heron and an egret out in the marsh. I am sure the heron was showing the egret how to fish. The heron put its head underwater, grabbed a fish, looked at the egret, then gulped it down. I thought it was a teaching moment, although the egret didn’t seem to catch on too quickly! 🙂

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  12. J P's avatar J P says:
    June 18, 2026 at 11:21 am

    Next week – a green heron in blue water? 🙂

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  13. Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog's avatar Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog says:
    June 19, 2026 at 1:45 am

    Wow! Great capture, Linda! Herons are elusive! They sure are good at being the predators that they are!

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 19, 2026 at 7:50 pm

      Thank you Tom! It was a fleeting moment with that brilliant green reflection! I went to the duck pond hoping to find some Wood Ducks, but I was happy to see the trees’ reflection.

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  14. trumstravels's avatar trumstravels says:
    June 20, 2026 at 6:25 am

    I do love herons! We saw one in Indonesia but he was different than ours, not sure what type he was.

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  15. Prior...'s avatar Prior... says:
    June 22, 2026 at 6:55 am

    this was such a great pop of green – with some clean sheen – ha! I could see this being painted with oil pastels

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    • Linda Schaub's avatar Linda Schaub says:
      June 22, 2026 at 9:29 pm

      That was a lucky break for me Yvette as I was looking for some wood ducks, or any ducks for that matter, as they hang out at this duck pond, but the only ducks I saw were hanging out by the picnic tables looking for handouts. I’m sure that beautiful green, shimmery reflection didn’t last long, but I could see it as an oil pastels creation. I actually had my oil pastels out today. I was doing some watercolor paintings today and thought I’d try out the pastels for a change I bought them a few years ago and never used them, but I wasn’t keen on how the sky looked – I tried two types of paper and the crayons didn’t seem to glide, nor meld nicely. I have only used the chalk pastels years ago.

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