These are “beary” good

It is hard to believe that our trip to Yellowstone where we met the Grandkids (and their parents) happened over a year ago. We were there in early September and had a great visit. We were staying near Jackson Hole and drove up to Yellowstone each day.

As we drove back to the condo on our first day out we drove through Grand Teton park on a narrow country road. We rounded one curve to find cars parked along both sides of the road. There was barely enough room for a car to drive through the “parking lot.” Cars stopped along side the road is usually an indication that there is something (usually an animal) to see. We slowed down – had to for all the parked cars and crazy pedestrians – and began looking in the direction people were pointing.

We saw nothing and slowly continued our forward progress. When we were in the midst of this craziness we finally saw what everyone was looking at – a Black Bear sitting in a tree very close to the road enjoying a meal of berries. We were so close to the bear that I had trouble getting my camera to focus on the bear. And, people were out of their cars even closer to the bear than we were and we were in the car!!!

Made a few clicks – I had to have Kathy move the car forward a few feet so I could focus on the bear – and got out of there before the bear decided to eat something (someone?) other than berries…