On this final Saturday of the 2025 version of June, with the temperature, as measured by the Fahrenheit method, a HOT 86 degrees, with the humidity, and lack of wind, making those 86 degrees feel like 93 degrees, according to my phone's temperature monitoring, it was back to Sikes Lake I ventured for some much needed salubrious endorphin acquisition from aerobic stimulation.
I sure do like a long run-on sentence.
In the photo documentation, above, you are looking west, across Sikes Lake, from the lake's eastern shore. The lake is being mirror-like, due to that aforementioned lack of wind.
A few wet drops dripped on me whilst I was enjoying the outer world.
Soon after walking from the location of that first photo, we come to the colorful scene you see photo documented above. A patch of prickly pear cactus, minus their flowers and most of the resulting prickly pears, along with a colorful red bush.
A couple years ago Sikes Lake was the shocking scene of the mass murder of hundreds of geese. The executions brought multiple protests. The outrage slowly seemed to abate.
And now, a couple years later, the Sikes Lake goose population seems to be growing again. The new geese do not seem to be as skittish as the ones who were executed. Maybe no one has chased these new geese or done any other bad deed which causes the geese to fear the humans.
One would think the geese have rational reason to fear the humans, after that mass execution.
Maybe the new Sikes Lake geese are not aware of what has happened previously at this location.
I have no idea if geese have good memories or can communicate with one another regarding the history of what has previously happened to their species at this location.
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