It must be spring...

As esrblog and I were driving home from the Walmart near a local shopping mall, a family of geese nearly stepped in front of our car.

That's right, geese. On the highway. Two adult birds (a mother and father?) and about five or six fuzzy yellow goslings. I'd never seen goslings before; they were very cute.

Fortunately, the family refrained from stepping into my lane of travel, and thus did not become goose-flavored roadkill.

In retrospect, it's kind of surprising that I haven't seen more goslings around here, given how many geese we get every spring and fall.