August 7, 2008
AND THEN THERE WERE BEARS …
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.
Posted by Loreth @ 8:10 pm | MANHUNTER,RESEARCH,THE NORDIC LIFE,THE RUNNING LIFE,THE WHISTLER LIFE,THE WRITING LIFE
Toni Anderson Says:
That’s a nice picture
For something so big it is amazing how they disappear like that.
Sam Says:
Hey Loreth,
I know that’s your last name, but its so dang beautiful I had to use it. I recently moved to MN from FL, and while I don’t think we have any bears pawing around the lake of the Isles, the scenery is similar sans water.
Loreth Says:
Ah, thank you Sam … but if you;re referring to Loreth, it is my first and real name. I know it’s a last name as well, and popular, I think, in Germany, but my parents made it up as composition of their two names.
Lucky you — *warm* Florida …