Some of Gee's Best Friends

Some of Gee's best friends are geese---Canada Geese.

She loves to hear and watch myriads of them fly over as they change venues from pond to pond.

“The majesty of geese lifting themselves over the road and surging into the morning sky laid bare the meaningless rush of cars speeding off to places that seemed much less important than those for which the host of magnificent geese were destined. And I thought that there is more meaning in a handful of geese aloft than a million men on a thousand roads.”
(Craig D. Lounsbrough)

She loves to see babies and teenagers grow into adults indistinguishable from their parents.    

She sometimes has to hold her breath and not watch as a geese parade of mamas and babies, watched over by the daddies, crosses the busy road  by her house as they make their way to and from the pond.   

She loves it when the geese parade causes the cars from that busy traffic to stop going both ways to let the parade pass undisturbed. 

It reminds her of when the Ballentine Dairy cows used to stop traffic on Sunset Lake Road as they came home from their day in the pasture.  

From: The Independent Newspaper Sept. 2, 1987

There is no telling how many generations of the beautiful creatures come back to the pond at Gee's house each year and call it home. Gee likes her friends, the geese.   

"And God blessed them, saying, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.'”
(Genesis 1:22)