Author Archives: Linda Schaub

Ahhhh, breathe in deep and experience the sweet smell of lilacs in May. I imagine it must be just heavenly at the annual Lilac Festival at Mackinac Island. During today’s walk it seemed that every corner lot I passed lilac … Continue reading →

Michigan weather this week is definitely bi-polar. Monday at 8:00 a.m. when I went outside to take the blanket off my Dwarf Japanese Weeping Maple it was a frosty 32 degrees. Teeth chattering and hands freezing, I went back to … Continue reading →

Earlier today I was out and about with a bout of repeated sneezing that actually took my breath away.  I decided to walk to the Lincoln Park Post Office to mail some cards – mind you, I could have gone … Continue reading →

Linda’s terminology for the first really warm Spring day when you realize you left the house with too many clothes on and have to shed some of them. I rode the bus for decades and I was never without my … Continue reading →

Another beautiful day dawned and I was out the door by 9:00 a.m. and headed to Council Point Park for my walk around the perimeter path. I am convinced that this haven of water, brush, trees and a little bit … Continue reading →

What a glorious morning for my 3 ¼ mile walk today. It seemed the whole world woke up early and decided to get out of the house and celebrate this beautiful day. It seems hard to believe a mere two … Continue reading →

Yellow, yellow everywhere. In my clothes and in my hair. Pollen flying from all the trees. Making me just sneeze and sneeze. —–Linda Schaub (2013) Well a little Ogden Nash-like poem there – nothing fancy. Yellow is the word of … Continue reading →

Oh Mother Nature, you’re such a tease!  You gave us two bright and beautiful days and today you get an “E” for effort as we had to endure yet another all-day rain.  Once again I relied on the meteorologists on … Continue reading →

If this was a Jeopardy question, you’d answer:  “what is a traditional Indian battle cry just before invading the enemy” … heck, this is something you probably did as a kid, running around in the backyard holding a feather to … Continue reading →

‘Nuff said!!! The calendar, which touts the arrival of Spring nearly five weeks, is soooooooo wrong. Even the advent of the pretty pink moon tonight doesn’t conjure any pastel Spring images when people are still in warm weather gear and … Continue reading →