Wild geese over south-west Scotland | Nikon D3300 & 40mm f/2.8 | click x2 to enlarge
May I be forgiven for being a little immodestly proud of this photo? Captured today from the passenger seat of our moving car (70mph), heading north, in south-west Scotland. I think I’ve always loved geese and ‘big sky’ – even before encountering my poet-inspiration Mary Oliver – but undoubtedly more since. Mary’s Wild Geese is perhaps one of her best-known and best-loved poems, and whenever I encounter a flight like this one my heart is warmed. I think of her, and inwardly recite an array of her works. Actually, during the course of the visit, and on the homeward journey, we saw perhaps half a dozen more such flights, several of them much larger than this one. What it must be, to be able to take off like that, honking encouragement to one another en route. Oh, and that sky …
wind in my wheels 🌱 
Beautiful! 🙂
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Thank you, Phoebe.
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You may, Simon! Thank you for allowing your readers to take flight with you for just a few moments. Absolutely lovely… xo
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Thanks for sharing, Lori.
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A flight of geese, or the racing cloud formations are of never ending interest to the elderly man sitting in his armchair viewing the sky through the picture window.
How quick of you to capture it through a moving car. (Hope Jilly was driving !! )
Lovely photo, Simon.
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Thank you! Endlessly lovely, yes. And yes, Jilly was driving, bless her!
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A flight of fantastic fancy! Mary Oliver is smiling widely (as am I)..xx
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