Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Once Upon A Time...Jim As Bear Food
While walking the trails in Oak Mountain State Park (AL) I read a sign that said "Don't feed the black bears." Not wanting to be bear food, I heeded the warning as best I could, never actually believing that one would appear. Not one but three...mother and adolescent cubs, smelling their way to a trash can. Is the wind towards me or away? Can they sense I'm near? Should I run? Fifty yards away? What will I do if...? The green Jeep appears ...the ranger parks in my line of sight to the bears. They trot (?) off, only the sound of cracking twigs and dried leaves evidence of their direction. The walk along the trail continued to a pond...no gaters, no herons, no ducks...the story ends with a memory of Jim as bear food, happily unrequited!
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Somewhere, perhaps on a bear-blog if it were to exist in nature, I suspect you would read a similar account of this adventure--a wily hunter, poised to shoot, was distracted by a green jeep just in time to permit safe flight, twigs underfoot, and avoid the fate of becoming People Food.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the adventuring. It sounds like a trip of a lifetime.
-Edmund Feingold
Found you...be careful as you are being care-free. I have to say this because I am a Mom AND a Grandma now...Take care... almost to be Birthday Boy.
ReplyDeleteI want to be in your Vote but SD was not on the list....sorry...... Thinking of you....slo
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