This evening was just fucking beautiful. I was sitting out back on the patio just before 8pm and noticed one of the local geese heading my way, so I grabbed my camera real quick-like:

A few more appeared:

A few moments later all of the little goslings showed up and started picking around for stuff to eat. They’ve grown a bit since their last appearance:

A little while later this couple tried to cross the street with some smaller babies and when traffic would come by the momma goose would give the car absolute hell:

The funny thing is everybody in town is pretty cool about the geese that live around here. I’ve literally seen 6 lanes of traffic just sitting and waiting for a row of geese to strut their way across the road. They run this town and they know it.

Then just for fun I took stupid pictures like only I can. Such gems as this:

I couldn’t believe how much the zoom lens compressed that shot. The intersection in the background is about a quarter mile beyond the hydrant (and I used Streets & Trips to measure). I’ll have to remember that for future use…somewhere.

The worst part is that until about a month ago you couldn’t even see that intersection through all the trees that lined the pond there. They cleared it out and I suspect office-type buildings to go in to match the ones they put in on the other side of the main road. It’s amazing how much that whole little area at the entrance to our little ‘community’ has changed just since we moved in – and that was less than a year ago. Meh, whatever – Little Man has a great view of all the excavation and construction vehicles from his bedroom window and I’ve caught him just hanging out watching them work a few times.

It was just a really nice evening out. :)