Yes, the sun sure would have helped. All my warm days lately have been overcast. (They say if you don't like the weather in the temperate zones you wait a day, but one's not always free when it's nice. And then sometimes there are heavy snow showers on Easter Sunday!)

Something else that would have come in handy would've been if I'd had ste-phan's reflexes and steady hand -- which still amazes me -- to get a moving bike shot of a surprise subject: just a few minutes before I caught the geese feeding, I rode by two others squabbling on a pond, chasing each other around half flying, half kicking up spray with their webbed feet running along the surface. Now that would have been action! Oh well.