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Goose Island News: Pre-Christmas 2023
The seasons, and the years, come and go swiftly. Were we ever that young, and are we now that old?
December 1949–Hagerstown. Me and the Man! At four years old, believing in Santa Claus was still exciting.
December 2023– Seventy-four years later, no longer believing in Santa, I still love the good cheer of the Christmas season.
For the past three years, visiting the Festival of Lights at Brookgreen Gardens in South Carolina, it’s impossible not to tumble into the spirit of the holiday season.
For us, Brookgreen is more magical than Disneyland for Kathy and me.
Chip’s painting of Hillsboro in the snow and a December full moon a few years back was one of the town’s Christmas cards this year.
Have a Holly Jolly!!
Chip
Goose Island News: California Bound
For much of July, our Goose family has been taking wing and flying off to other parts of Loudoun County, Virginia for days at a time. Until early August they’d been gone for a week. Now they are back for a while.
These photos were taken mostly in May. Now in June, the six surviving “babies” are “teenagers.” They have all their feathers and markings and are beginning to flex their flight muscles during land and water calisthenics.