My apartment complex has a menagerie of animals, including a pair of geese. These usually stay in the upper yard, seldom visiting me in the lower yard.

They aren’t too noisy but when they do visit, they love to hiss and sometimes charge.

The goose doesn’t like being photographed.

Recently one has taken to visiting me regularly, first to eat my lettuce and then to eat the chipping paint surrounding my porch. I wonder what tastes so good in the paint.