Geese and Blizzards

So this is somewhat random, but I thought it was cool.  When we first moved on Goose Lake Circle, I thought that was a silly name.  I mean, really.  The 'lake' is more like a big pond, and are there ever really any geese on it?  The answer is a definite yes.  And, I know that they're just geese and probably not exciting to anyone else, but I find it so cool that every year in the fall we have lots of geese on our little body of water.  We hear them passing over-head the whole season long.  This year, it started to get crazy.  I looked out our front window and there were literally hundreds if not thousands of geese landing on the lake at the same time.  The sky was full of them.  Later that morning we drove past and the whole lake was full of geese.  So we decided to get the camera and walk back.  By the time it took us to get back, there was not even a tenth of what had been there before:

 

 

We were very sad but took pictures anyway.

There were a ton of geese for several days, and then we got hit with a blizzard.  They must have known it was coming.  We wished that we had known when we were booking our flight to get home for Christmas, because we instead were not able to get there until Christmas Eve.  So we played in the snow for a couple days.