Beautiful Wayfarer

Today was a rather long day....not terribly busy, but long!

I wound up taking a shortcut through the mall parking lot and spotted several Canada Geese enjoying the pond nearby. I stopped and just watched for a bit. I really love watching waterfowl.

Although the mall has a gaggle of geese around at any given time, I think many of the ones seen now are migrants, making their way to warmer climes. This time of the year, it isn't unusual to see huge flocks gleaning any stray kernels of corn in farm fields. Sometimes tiny ponds look even more miniature with hundreds of geese in and surrounding them.

This particular goose was enjoying a sip of water, then saw me and the camera. Almost on cue, the goose posed so lovely for me! I was sad I didn't have my little bucket of cracked corn to feed the geese, but I suppose the security guy probably would have scolded me, anyway!