Ursa Major and Me

I have been suffering from Insomina of late – not fun if you couple it with my current case of vertigo – but what are you going to do. I really wish I could capture the feeling on film. Hmmm, maybe I will try.

So last night, while I couldn’t sleep, I was standing on my deck looking at the stars. This action sets off some nice spinning action for me so I had to look down to regain my balance. It was a good thing too! As I looked down in the dark, I saw something moving in the parking lot across the lawn. Something big followed by a bunch of something small.

The something big made it into a patch of light – and OMG! is was a bear and her FOUR cubs! In my backyard too. It was a good thing it wasn’t garbage day. Just last week at the pool (see the last post) we had been discussing this very bear and her habit of tearing down people’s fences. Well, here she was but thankfully there were no broken fences that I know of.

I wish I had a photo, but it was too dark and I didn’t want to make her mad with the flash – so I just watched Ursa Major on the ground instead of in the sky.

On an unrelated note: this photo is a fun one playing with focus and the night sky.

Posted in Blog — by alicia on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 — Comments (0)

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