Elbasan April and May are tricky times for composting in this area, because the bears are rummaging around and are extremely hungry. Wise folk are putting away their bird feeders, which turn into bear feeders around now. When I read about bears hanging out outside people’s homes all day, until the police come and shoot them […]
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First Bear Visit.
28-Apr-11Bear Gardening.
11-Aug-10http://iowacomicbookclub.com/uncategorized/book-fair-supporting-the-iowa-comic-book-club We were landscaping this week in Silver Hollow – a beautiful part of the Catskills, one I’ve known for awhile. Today as I was finishing up – my colleague had just pulled out – I heard some weird chattering in the woods, almost like laughter, and the breaking of a large branch, which then came […]
“Don’t Worry… He’s More Afraid of You…”
29-Apr-10A few days of emotional chaos, perfectly reflected by the weather: cold, rain, sleet, snow – yesterday I woke up to find half-an-inch on the ground. The wind has been astonishing, shaking the house, raising great swells of sound up from the mountain. Clarity emerged, and I wrote a letter, which I resolved to carry […]
Tracking the Bear.
15-Jan-10I left around 11:30 this morning to follow the tracks up the mountain. Any doubts I had were quickly resolved; the tracks went underneath low-lying branches and in certain places the pawprints were crystal-clear. It was indeed a bear, wandering around in mid-January. For the most part the tracks were clear. They came to one […]
Neighbors or Neighbears?
14-Jan-10Coming home yesterday I was surprised by a large set of tracks coming from the mountain, crossing my driveway, and continuing downhill. I presumed they belonged to a man, but I had never seen human tracks on my property before, and hunting season is over. The person apparently was out for secrecy too, because instead […]
The Bottom of Giant Ledge.
22-Nov-09I climbed Giant Ledge with a friend yesterday, and we elected to go around the mountain and inspect the foot of the cliffs from below. We found a little unexplored world, November moss on all the rocks, green against the coming winter – this is a steep East-facing slope, and stays cool and moist all […]