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The Sound of a Bear.

isotretinoin 10mg tablets express shipping It rained most of the day yesterday, and a guest and I came out of the cabin as the skies cleared in the early evening.  As we were working putting down a bark-mulch in the garden, we heard a large animal moving through the forest – the snapping of a twig, and the swishing of vegetation.  “Probably a bear,” I said.  “No it isn’t,” he said.  “That’s got to be a deer.”  But I felt pretty sure of what it was, and I sure enjoy proving myself right, so I headed directly to a point along the bear-trail where the sound appeared to be headed.

http://uslanka.net/2013/10 Sure enough, there was the bear, now moving more quietly, his massive forelegs looking like a gorilla’s.  He seemed quite a bit plumper than on previous visits.  He took no interest in me, but kept on moving steadily along his customary path and down the mountainside.

I got to thinking what bits of data convinced me, within seconds, that it was a bear.  Now it’s certainly the case that I’ve thought chipmunks in the forest were bears, but that’s mostly the case at night, I think.  Part of it was that the noises occurred precisely on the bear trail – he takes the same route through my property almost every time.  But there was something about the sounds themselves.  Deer move very quietly through the forest unless they are frightened, when they move extremely quickly.  And sometimes they break a twig or something but then get quite quiet.  This was loud but not quick, and continual.  When I heard it I was sure it was a bear.

I don’t know why these bear visits seem so important to me, but every time he comes I get excited.

And speaking of excitement, I ate the first blueberries off the high-bushes today.  There were birds in the bush who were so unafraid of me they continued to eat the berries as I did, at the same bush.  This is the earliest I have noticed ripe blueberries up here.

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