Everything's coming up roses.

     I mentioned yesterday that something demolished our bird feeders the first night we had them out and that we were guessing it was elk.  Guess again.  This bear was seen at our community center that same evening.  He/she is a beauty!

                   Image from Facebook

"In a world older and more complete than ours, animals move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.  They are not underlings;  they are other nations, caught up with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth." ---Henry Beston in Outermost House

"One may live without bread, not without roses."---Jean Richepin