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A large orange and black Monarch
butterfly landed on the bushes next to
us. Heather pointed to it. “Oh, look,
Elli, it’s a flutterby.”
As we stood there watching the
‘flutterby’, a flock of geese noisily
winged its way north in formation
above us. Heather pointed to them.
“Those are called gooses. The noise
they make is honking.”
Elliana looked impressed with her
big sister’s knowledge. “Why are they
honking?” she asked.
“Because,” Heather answered, with
an air of four-year-old wisdom, “they
are anxious to get home, and the ones
in the front are going too slow, so the
ones in the back want them to get out
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