Canada goose for day 6. I encountered this goose the first spring after the winter in which I moved to the so-called Hudson Valley a few years ago. The intensity of winter and then the equal intensity of the spring was deeply disconcerting — it’s very different from the Mediterranean climate of the Bay Area, where my heart and soul (and at least some of the the pattern-recognition parts of my mind) still resided.*
This encounter was a bit downriver from where I live now, at a river park where there are always many Canada geese in the warmer months.
I don’t see as many Canada geese up here, still on the so-called Hudson River — they must be here somewhere, but not in the places I tend to go.
It’s mostly gulls and ducks that I notice on the river now, and bald eagles overhead, and swans in the marsh.
* My soul will always belong to the Pacific; though, as it turns out, there is part of it that can belong to the river, as well.
Blog post: https://calendsofapril.com/canada-goose-on-the-river-october-6-sketch
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