Yesterday morning, I was feeling a bit spacey. Yes, you there snickering in the corner, I know what you're thinking, but I was more spacey than usual. I was so unwithit that my morning Sudoku games looked like they were being played by a toddler who chanced upon his mother's iPad.
I had a Christmas card to post — just one card this year — so I stopped at the mailbox. Just like most communities in Canada built in the past two or more decades, we have a community box at the end of the street. I grabbed the key, opened my box, grabbed all of the cards that people had sent flyers and went merrily on my way. It is the time of year to be merry after all.
I completed my errands, pretending that my mind was in working order, and returned home. I pulled in the driveway and put my stuff into the bag that the pet store provided with the new litter lifter because I broke the other one that very same morning. In went the video that I had obtained from the library. In went the flyers. Whoopsie! The card that I had set out to send was still on the car seat.
I trudged back to the mail boxes to finally post the darn thing. A skein of honking geese flew over. These are the geese that are, apparently, too lazy to fly south to warmer climes but not too lazy to fly back and forth willy nilly honking their tiny brains out. The sky was a clear blue. I decided to take a phone shot.
You know how many times, I turn on the phone camera accidentally when I don't want to? Well, wouldn't you know that I couldn't seem to find the camera right then when I wanted it. The leading geese were just about out of sight when I finally found the camera. Can you see the little dots in the sky. They could have made a decent photo when they had been directly overhead, but Oh No! that would have been too much to ask for on such a spacey morning.
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| In the vertical middle stretching all the way from left to right. If you click, you might actually see the dots. |
That's a lot of dots. Try coffee or tea? Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteThose days happen.
ReplyDeleteI thought there would be more to the card saga - namely in taking the photo of the geese you forgot to mail it again. Glad to hear you weren't spacey all day.
ReplyDeleteThose geese still thrill me...but I've not been outdoors enough lately to see any. And I certainly understand the phone camera trouble. I wanted to show my friends the photo I had taken, and they were talking about. So I pressed the icon for FaceBook, and kept wondering why it didn't give me the screen with all my photos. I tried 3 times...see, I beat your record...and said "I can't work my phone." Then pressed the little camera icon and found it at once. Ahhh. Nobody knows how stupid I felt. Unless it's someone else who's sitting in a similar chair.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, I clicked on the photo and saw the dots. Awesome!!!
ReplyDeleteOoh, tiny dots! I believe you when you say they're geese! Ours do that pointless short trip process, too. They never migrate. I hope you and your wits are reunited today anyway.
ReplyDeleteBut it was certainly a better photograph than you could have taken with your other camera still back home. As they say, the camera with you is the best camera to have.
ReplyDeleteTis the time of year when spaciness abounds, AC, so you are not alone. Geese flying over the river below our apt is a commonplace sight many days, but I have never taken any photos usually because no hone or camera is in reach, so good on you.
ReplyDeleteThe spaciness sounds familiar. I blame lack of daylight
ReplyDeleteI think the geese look great and so does the blue sky. (jealous) I get easily distracted and it's worse as I age.
ReplyDeleteI've been having a morning like that. My very short blog entries are due to the "no one home" factor.
ReplyDeleteThat blue sky caught my attention. So rare lately! The dots were a bonus.
ReplyDeleteI found them. That's a lotta geese!
ReplyDeleteI have spots before my eyes.
ReplyDeleteJoin the club - JG's shiny new snowblower? The manual has disappeared.
I also know the spacey feeling. don't give me too many tasks at one time. I tend to write things out to keep me a bit organized,
ReplyDeleteI think we all been spacy and I hear there a reason for it. But I don't recall.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on and stay safe
This sounds like what we're up to. Forgetting what we were about to do.
ReplyDeleteI have noticed that some birds are later than others. The ones who fly farther north seem to be more cold tolerant, or perhaps it means they all aren't flying south at the same time. Mysteries!
Waterloo University campus always has geese. They don't go south at all. Not only that, they will lay eggs near a chosen entrance, then attack students who unknowingly wanders through the door.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter studied there. So I heard all scary geese stories. One time the mama goose chase me for trying to take pictures of her little ones.