Post by Lee on Jul 25, 2021 20:52:35 GMT -5
This thread continues the thread formerly called Bear which disappeared into antiquity.
I saw a bear yesterday, first bear I’ve seen all year. Last year I saw six bear in all, four adults, two cubs.
This bear was being loaded into the back of a cal trans truck (California transportation) near where I live. I was motorcycling back from a new California state rally in roseville ca. It had been struck by a car and died thankfully, soon after impact.
I chanced to intercept the cal trans truck a little later, where I get off the freeway to go to my home. I flagged the drivers down and I’m asking them about the bear I saw being picked up and they replied, “It’s in the back”.
Yes it was. A beautiful 400 pounder, sprawled across the open tailgate of the full size truck. It’s hind paws with claws struck me as particularly beautiful, gloved in appearance, a perfectly fashioned appendage for negotiating the rough country, a landscape I always wear shoes in.
I got home and thought of returning to retrieve the bear myself. Surely, such a beautiful animal deserved to be immortalized, not dumped off somewhere unrecognizable, to be abandoned, forgotten, as if none of its glory had ever really existed.
I parked my motorcycle and got in my truck. I drove to the freeway exchange in vain, the caltrans workers had already left, surely onto their trivial task of dumping this bears body somewhere God only knows where, not even burying it. I had thought I would request the bear and was prepared to do my best job to gut him and preserve him (or her).
What a day. Today my pastor spoke of the sanctity and respect we should feel for all life. Indeed!
The bears will be back when the California coffee berry comes ripe next month. Earlier when they emerged from hibernation first of May they were feasting in the manzanita blossoms. They’re quite tasty, I tried them myself!
I live one mile high in the California, Tahoe national forest.
I saw a bear yesterday, first bear I’ve seen all year. Last year I saw six bear in all, four adults, two cubs.
This bear was being loaded into the back of a cal trans truck (California transportation) near where I live. I was motorcycling back from a new California state rally in roseville ca. It had been struck by a car and died thankfully, soon after impact.
I chanced to intercept the cal trans truck a little later, where I get off the freeway to go to my home. I flagged the drivers down and I’m asking them about the bear I saw being picked up and they replied, “It’s in the back”.
Yes it was. A beautiful 400 pounder, sprawled across the open tailgate of the full size truck. It’s hind paws with claws struck me as particularly beautiful, gloved in appearance, a perfectly fashioned appendage for negotiating the rough country, a landscape I always wear shoes in.
I got home and thought of returning to retrieve the bear myself. Surely, such a beautiful animal deserved to be immortalized, not dumped off somewhere unrecognizable, to be abandoned, forgotten, as if none of its glory had ever really existed.
I parked my motorcycle and got in my truck. I drove to the freeway exchange in vain, the caltrans workers had already left, surely onto their trivial task of dumping this bears body somewhere God only knows where, not even burying it. I had thought I would request the bear and was prepared to do my best job to gut him and preserve him (or her).
What a day. Today my pastor spoke of the sanctity and respect we should feel for all life. Indeed!
The bears will be back when the California coffee berry comes ripe next month. Earlier when they emerged from hibernation first of May they were feasting in the manzanita blossoms. They’re quite tasty, I tried them myself!
I live one mile high in the California, Tahoe national forest.