they had me at hello....

we were blessed yesterday

with some warmth that felt balmy to us midwesterners

and

since I don't run or ice fish or bike

which is what everyone else was doing here in madison

I knew my day

was only going to be about finding some

camera love

so hubby and I jumped in the jeep

with no plans or directions except to stay close to the lakes

well
this bank is close to one of the lakes
actually it sits beside an inlet
and
there were geese and ducks everywhere just wandering around aimlessly
like us
so we pulled up thinking they would hate the intrusion
and
instead they loved us
~
john stayed in the jeep laughing at me as I became really good friends with
barney-sylvia-hank-gracie-tommy-bumpy-creme puff
and
360


and
NONE
of these pictures were taken with a zoom lens
because I had almonds I was hand feeding them
which john, in a panic state, had dug out from the backseat of the jeep when I screamed
"why don't we have anything to feed them"
and
they walked right up to my knees
checked out my shoe laces
didn't charge at me
and
made lots of noise as in
"we don't really even like almonds but you look like a nice person"
~
then like a miracle sent from heaven
a little girl and her brother showed up out of nowhere
with loaves of bread

so we laughed
as the kids got scared when the geese got right up next to them
and
I of course kept saying
"just keep throwing the bread {you little weenie, they're just geese and I promise they won't take your finger off} because I'm getting some fun shots here"

it doesn't take much to make my day
or make me laugh
or even smile
and
this was by far the best day I'd had in a long time

until I saw this
and
this made me very sad
but it didn't seem to bother him at all
and
he played really well with the other geese who had perfect feet
and
he didn't seem to be in any
"feel sorry for me"
kind of mood
even after I named
360
~