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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

Canal living and some culture too!

As the sign above indicates, this excursion took place in Gibralter, Michigan, a quaint, waterfront community located along the Detroit River. I had not been to Gibralter since I was a teenager when our family visited my father’s coworker who … Continue reading →

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Juvenile Barn Swallow and his buddies. #Wordless Wednesday

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Marsh Madness! A morning chockful of whimsy and beauty.

As soon as I stepped onto the Cherry Island Trail and saw this oddball “thing” in the murky marsh, I knew it would be my featured image because it reminded me of the word “pareidolia” (seeing faces in objects that … Continue reading →

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King of the hill, er … dead tree. #Wordless Wednesday #Great Egret

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Darling ducklings!

There were also some mellow Mallards and grumpy Geese too. On July 22nd I headed to Dingell Park, … … the first time I’d been there since that frosty February day when I went for the Great Backyard Bird Count. … Continue reading →

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Sherbet-colored fleurs at Memorial Park. #Wordless Wednesday #Trumpet Vine and Daylilies

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The last stop on my slow roll through 1976.

With this very long post, I have finally exhausted my long trip down Memory Lane circa 1976. First, I wrote about my mom’s 50th birthday and how my grandmother and Aunt Frances took the bus from Toronto for a surprise … Continue reading →

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This shutterbug asks: why does this goose look bug-eyed? #Wordless Wednesday #Saw a ghost, Nessie?

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Oh boy, Koi!

Summer is fading fast! I mean, how the heck did we get to Labor Day weekend already? Wasn’t it just Memorial Day, the unofficial gateway to Summer and now we’re at the unofficial gateway to Fall? Not that Summer wasn’t … Continue reading →

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House Sparrow embedded in a Cup Plant. #Wordless Wednesday

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