Whenever I see geese in the fall, I always think of the film "Fly Away Home". My mom and I used to watch that film a few times a year for many years when I was a kid. The film starred a girl, played by Anna Paquin, who moves in with her dad, played by Jeff Daniels, after her mom passes away in a car accident. She discovers a nest of goose eggs, which soon hatch into goslings. While her dad is reluctant at first, she takes them in and raises them, with the geese imprinting on her. In order to save them from being confiscated and getting their wings clipped, she and her father eventually build an aircraft to teach them how to migrate south for the winter.
Most people I know don't remember this film, but thinking about it always gives me a happy memory of my mom and I sitting together each year and watching the geese fly towards safety and return back in the spring. It is such an amazing journey they must take each year.
So when I saw these geese walking around a parking lot recently, I thought of the movie and how seeing geese fly each fall is a signal of winter...as well as a signal of hope and beauty.
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