So, where’s that dinner? I’m waiting, but my patience is wearing thin here …
(He should try the publishing industry, eh? 
)
Katy Yin is expected to spend another two weeks in hospital
recovering from being attacked by a bear in Coquitlam, B.C., last week.
(CBC)
From CBC.ca:- The Coquitlam woman who was attacked by a black bear last
week says she wouldn’t be alive if a quick-thinking neighbour hadn’t
rammed the bear with his truck.
Speaking from her bed at Royal Columbian hospital in New Westminster on
Tuesday, Katy Yin told CBC News the risky move gave other neighbours
enough time to drag her to safety.
Yin said the incident began when she was peacefully gardening in the
front yard of her Westwood Plateau home last Wednesday morning.
Then suddenly she was looking straight up into the face of an aggressive black bear.
She tried to turn and grab some rocks from her garden to throw at it,
but by the time she turned back, the bear was on top of her.
She knew, once the attack began, her only chance was to fight back or die, Yin said.
“He’s going to eat me. He’s not going to go away. It doesn’t matter. So
I used all of my energy to yell and if I can do something, I have to
help myself. I’m not ready to die. I’ve got to fight,” she said.
Yin suffered several severe injuries in the attack, including multiple
fractures, deep bruises and countless cuts on her legs, arms and torso.
One massive wound on the back of her head required 20 staples to close.
A week after the attack, her body remains covered in scars and surgical
dressing, and her left arm still requires more surgery where the bear
ripped it right down to the bone.
She is expected to remain in the hospital for at least another two weeks.
The bear was later shot by police. Officers said it was likely hunting
Yin as food, but the results of a necropsy planned by wildlife
authorities to try to determine why the attack happened have not been
released.
The Mountie and his tracker ….
This beauty had a light golden coat on his shoulders and back, and was totally oblivious to my passing by — looks like that time of year again, when the only thing the bruins are worried about is obsessively chowing their way up to hibernation weight.
For those who have asked how close these wild animals are to passers by, I walked around the trail from where I shot the above photo, and tried to take another shot (shown below) for perspective. See the guy riding by on his bike? He didn’t notice the bear at all. Neither did the golfers putting away on the green to the left of the biker. I shot the above pic a little further ahead and to the right of that cyclist — and the bear is the brown blot hidden behind greenery in the depression to the right. Make sense?
And just to see how often we walk past these foraging beasts, perhaps not even noticing they are there – if you look real close at the pic below, you can see the ear and part of the back of the head of a fairly large black bear munching berries in a patch about two arms lengths off the trail …. can you spot him? Makes one think twice before scrambling through the brambles search of berries, eh?
In this last pic (below), you can just see the very black, rounded tip of his ear.
Welcome to my slice of life in B.C.’s wild and wet coast mountains. This ’running commentary’ offers a small window – often visual — into the life of a romance writer, on the run. Or on skis …
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