Wow! What a surprise! I would love to see a bear like this (inside and safely away from attack of course)! All we get in our garden are sparrows, the odd cat and the occasional frog looking for the pool that once was sited at the far corner of our garden long before the houses on our estate were built.
What stunning pics, Mechtild! I find it hard to imagine seeing a bear taking a stroll in our garden!! The most exciting thing we've ever had is foxes and we haven't seen one of those for ages; squirrels and birds are now our main inhabitants. I particularly love the deer pics - the one taken in Feb 09 where he's staring into the camera is so amazing - and that spotted fawn is just too adorable for words!!
Well, you don't live in a small city in the middle of northern wastes, either. Of course there are no bears! Do you ever imagine, just for fun, what England might have been like in the days when there still were bear and boar and wolves? Where you live wouldn't exist, of course, but you could imagine yourself in a home of the day, whether humble or wealthy.
Glen took a lot of lovely photos of that group of deer that day. They could make a post all by themselves! They let him come very close, all of them young, half-tame deer that hang out in a park near a breakwater on Lake Superior, not far from where he works in a small town up the shore, about 25 miles from here. It seems there is a small herd that lives in that park. I've taken friends on the little walking trail that goes through it before and sometimes have come across some of the deer. They stand right in the path and don't move off into the trees until you are nearly face to face. If you stand still they just stay where they are, browsing the leaves and twigs.
Plenty of deer and foxes? Sounds like where my mother and brother live, the VA suburbs southwest of D.C. Even in the midst of where my mom lives, terribly crowded with people and housing developments and condos and shopping centers and business and industrial parks, all cheek by jowl, and intense non-stop traffic, deer seem not only to live but thrive. My brother's suburb is further away, where it was truly the country when my parents moved to the area. There they see not only deer but foxes, racoons and beavers. Perhaps your area is like his.
Look, here he is being held by Faramir (film Faramir) against his will in Osgiliath. Soon he'll go bonkers and offer the Ring to the Naz-gull (here the Ring-wraiths ride gulls, for we have many).
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Glen took a lot of lovely photos of that group of deer that day. They could make a post all by themselves! They let him come very close, all of them young, half-tame deer that hang out in a park near a breakwater on Lake Superior, not far from where he works in a small town up the shore, about 25 miles from here. It seems there is a small herd that lives in that park. I've taken friends on the little walking trail that goes through it before and sometimes have come across some of the deer. They stand right in the path and don't move off into the trees until you are nearly face to face. If you stand still they just stay where they are, browsing the leaves and twigs.
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