| July 4th - I just have to share a bit of my excitement tonight. Rather than watching fireworks I spent part of the evening taking pictures of a bear in my backyard! Les and I arrived home around 8:00pm and as we drove up the driveway we were greated by the site of a black bear enjoying our garbage strewn across the backyard.
We thought she wasn't a very big bear so we just thought she was young. We ran her off by banging on a metal pot with a metal spoon. She went off a short distance in the woods but wouldn't leave completely. Les picked up the garbage while I stood by with pot and spoon at the ready to keep banging to scare her off if she came back.
After we returned to the house she came right back in the yard. We thought things were going to start again with her getting back in the garbage can again. However, she came to the base of the tree where she had been before, climbed up a bit and then 2 baby bears started following her down the tree. They were so cute! Now we understood why the mother bear wouldn't leave. Below are pictures of the momma bear. By the time the babies came down the tree it was too dark for me to get pictures.
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