They were so weird looking...at first we thought they were mallards but when they turned we could see their bills. They looked like cartoon ducks! I love the colors on the males...they were so intense and bright! They don't stay around here, my book said they are only here during migration. We saw these in the Mississippi river backwaters.

Goose! Oh Cynic, I am heartbroken. This is the first issue ever that we've not seen eye-to-eye on. Oh woe is me and my duck, duck, and GOOSE! LOL You unpack your groceries properly; you hang tissue paper properly; you keep house properly. Pack a bag and come visit. You, me, Harry, Sam, Wes, and the neighbors will play "Duck, Duck, Goose" until you get the hang of it! LOL Then my world will be properly back on its axis.

Jacqueline, Most likely it would have jumped 20 lanes had they been there. However, maybe they need to take another look at how to build the fire lanes. Back in the horse and buggy days the fire wagons didn’t have much power behind their water streams, but today they do. Same things goes for the fire lanes. Don’t fight the fires with yesterdays technology. Maybe a few water tanks spaced around the areas with pipes running to pump houses that wet the areas down such that any flying sparks can’t start new fires. Screens to catch the flying sparks. Not that any of that would work but I feel they need to sit down and take another look at it. Some time back my son told me that one of the ways they now fight fires in a building is poke a pipe through the building right into the center of the hottest fire and then suck the heat out. Sounds like that would just be adding fuel to the fire but it removes the heat allowing the water to put the fire out. Also, in this day and age why not put fire/heat sensors around such that the fires are located before they become 800,000 acres in size. A camera feeding a picture to a program that would scan the pictures for fires would allow huge areas to be monitored without any moving parts needed. Just mount the camera up high so a large area is scanned. Lets hope they get the fires put out soon as it sure is putting a hurt to a lot of folks.

Glad I found this one quickly because the background seems so boring that I did not want to look at it for much time.