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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

Dempsey the Downy Woodpecker orders from GRUBHUB. #Wordless Wednesday #Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) 2023 stats

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Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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Dempsey the Downy Woodpecker orders from GRUBHUB. #Wordless Wednesday #Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) 2023 stats

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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“All Creatures Great and Small” …

… is a PBS miniseries about Dr. Alf Wight’s trials and tribulations as a country veterinarian in the 1930s – 1950s in the Dales of Yorkshire, England. Dr. Wight, who wrote under the pen name James Herriot, authored eight books … Continue reading

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Precocious Parker plays peekaboo. #Wordless Wednesday #Where did you hide my valentine Linda?

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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This labor of love …

… made its debut one decade ago, on February 11, 2013, so it is time for me to EMBRACE it with this post. What better time to choose to write about your PASSION and labor of LOVE, than in conjunction … Continue reading

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Sunday Strolling. #Wordless Wednesday #Great Blue Heron at Lake Erie Metropark

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) and this song to tell the story.

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Beating the red, white and boom!

First, before I begin to weave my tale about a Sunday stroll at Lake Erie Metropark on July 3rd, it is already the first post of the new month … time to debut the February 2023 calendar page as evidenced … Continue reading

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Nature bee amazing sometimes. #Wordless Wednesday #Hmm – is that bee waving at me?

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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As the crow flies …

… it was a mere eight miles from my last stop at Oakwoods Metropark in the city of New Boston, to Lower Huron Metropark in Belleville. I tootled along a country road and suddenly I was there, having just barely … Continue reading

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What keeps me going is goals. –Muhammad Ali #Wordless Wednesday #Me too!

Wordless Wednesday – allow your photo(s) to tell the story.

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