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  Bear paw snowshoes/ Pete Fugleberg Estate Sale 1998 Sub Bear Roo We discovered bears like to lick this car. The morning after we brought it home from Apple Valley, Mn, we found lick marks all over it, in addition to wet hairy imprints along each side. Who knew? We also saw on-line that bears like these kind of door handles that they can open  -- but don't like becoming trapped in cars like this when their protruding rumps bump the door locks and they can't get out. It isn't a pretty sight after a bear in there, wants out of there.                                         The Three Bears Bears come here to puke after Halloween. Eating grass helps them vomit, just like it works on dogs. Only thing, candy wrappers aren't digestible and don't readily biodegrade for a few years. It looks like a campground after 4th of July,

 Deer On Post on Opening Day of 2000 Deer Season in Palmville Township, Roseau County, Mn.                  Just When You Think You've Seen It All      Buckskins In Snowfall A black bear hurries from our front door after ringing the door bell. Bears enjoy annoying humans. The crafty beasts particularly enjoy Halloween and dress up; we pretend not to see through their elaborate disguises and reward their efforts. We must be popular. FREEZE! Which one of you will move or blink first? I was just going out for a tinkle when I realized something else had the same idea -- and it was him! Hoo Yah. Luckily, it wasn't its Mama. She left her calling card elsewhere . . .   As I did my cellphone in all the excitement

 Cross Hatch2 Rough Pastels Dawn Over Mikinaak Creek 3 Storm Downed Poplar. These poplar tees are safe from loggers but not from beaver, high winds and storms.  They topple over and rot into the ground feeding birds, bugs and sometimes their own seedlings around them. All of the largest white spruce here were planted by hand, in 1974, by a friend and I, and many were planted in these big fallen trees. Walks in the woods, for me, are usually solitary affairs Even though my explorations are across land that I've owned since 1971 and know extremely well, I still see something new -- and often differently than the last time I passed. The light may affect it; certainly the weather and the change of seasons. I may be wanting to see a particular thing, for instance 'sheds', antlers which have fallen off deer bucks in late winter. Or as in the case below, three years ago, a whole deer skeleton indicating it died where it fell and was buried by the snow, safe from vultures, eagles,

   Maybe a coywolf. Can't see enough of its legs to know its height.   Coyote caught on trail camera           Two whitetails, one is laying down behind it.            Two coyotes on the trail of another                               An ermine -- a weasel in its white winter coat with a vole in its mouth.  

 Images of a January walk  Beaver-downed trees              Accent down under Storm-downed