Bears

 October 19, 2025

Roused from the couch last night by terrible noise out back, like somebody dismantling the tool shed, Two adult bears haunted the yard. One was wrestling with the garbage can and its bear-proof lid. The lid won, but I wonder if it would have had I not interrupted. One of the bears fled as soon as I appeared, but the other took his time, walking back into the garden, then changing his mind and walking toward me again. He passed peacefully between the car and me and out toward Lakeshore, but I watched his brown eye in the flashlight glare, wondering if he wanted to attack, flee, or was merely going peacefully on his intended way after an insignificant interruption..