I like the Blue Anemones. Exceptional color, might try to replicate it next time I have a bike frame made. Great slide show!

@alliwant

Thanks.

@Mofo1953

Karen was carrying bear spray.

@dalefvictor

At age 22, while hiking in the Olympic Mountains, WA, I rounded a corner and surprised a small, black bear eating berries on a hillside by the trail.

The bear and I stood, startled, looking at each other. The he turned and ran back into the woods. Why do they always go the direction I'm heading?

Of course, we saw Grizzlies while backpacking at Yellowstone National Park. Eight Grizzly bears were gathered at a river near our campsite, catching and eating salmon. We shouted and banged pots and pans. Satiated by salmon, the bears ignored us.

@LiterateHiker Referring to seeing Bears in Yellowstone is not allowed. I used to liven in Livingston and have been to Yellowstone in every month of the year. Seeing a Bear is a given if they are not in hibernating. The stories of the interaction between people and Bears during the Summer is just hilarious. I do not see why more people just do not become lunch. People can be so stupid. I have only seen one small black bear in the wild. I was deer hunting in the mountains northeast of Yellowstone. I heard what I thought was a large machine breaking everything it was running into, lots of noise of breaking trees and brush. This little bear came running up the hill about seventy-five yards away, moving so fast it disappeared almost as fast as I could recognize what it was. I did not think something that small could move so fast through thick brush.

@LiterateHiker The bears are so used to seeing people they do not pay attention to them. I was told not to pitch my tent on a trail that came out of the woods that was also in a direct line to a trash can. They will run right over your tent. They are not afraid of people, which is why they are so dangerous.