Swimming Lessons

There was enough room for everyone at the pond on a recent Sunday in Lagrange. Canadian geese gave swimming lessons to their young not far from where we were fishing with the kids. Red-winged blackbirds perched on cattails in the boggy edges of the pond. The sun was shining and the fish were biting wherever we cast. Small-mouth bass, blue-gills, sunnies. All thrown back, of course, but their brief company was appreciated.