Today in Pictures: Dec. 28, 2012

Cody Mooney, visiting from Loveland, Colo., tosses his 17-month-old daughter Willow in the air as snow geese take flight behind, Dec. 27, 2012, in the Skagit Valley near La Conner, Wash. Bird watchers took advantage of a day without rain to gaze at some of the tens of thousands of snow geese that spend the winter near the mouth of the Skagit River. (Elaine Thompson/AP Photo )