Birds Of A Feather

I took the photograph above of some geese at the Colorado State University Botanical Garden up in Fort Collins last week.  As regular blog readers know, I grew up in the Brainerd neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, and can't even remember seeing a goose there. However, we did learn in school that geese - along with other birds - fly south for the winter and north in the spring. Well, here in Colorado, they don't go anywhere - they stay here year round. In that respect, they are just like all those transplants from California that have settled here recently. Perhaps we need to set up a GoFundMe page to raise the money to truck them (the geese) up to Canada this spring. Coming from Chicago, that makes perfect sense to me.