Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Look What I Caught in My Trap!


Well, okay. Not really. However, this is a real picture taken in our friend's backyard last evening! They moved to Alta, WY several years ago. Everything beyond that fence is Targhee National Forest. The picture was taken from four hundred yards with a telephoto. Their son got within fifty yards on his ATV before the bear reared up and their son scrambled back. I told them I was very impressed with the size of the bear, but that I had seen much scarier human beasts in Vancouver transit buses on my way home from work.

1 comment:

Gale said...

WOW, that is a great picture. Have you seen Eric's blog? He would love to get something like that and I don't mean photograph. We've had deer in our backyard, thankfully no bears. I wouldn't leave the house if we did.