I bleed Bridgeport, but reside in Redding, a wilderness hamlet to the north. When not analyzing the political minefields of Connecticut’s largest city the sticks behold a solitude of woods for creatures to roam.
Early Saturday evening bore a grunt underneath the back deck. I slipped the slider open, walked out on the gravel and came face to face with a black bear, just a few feet away. In the distance climbing trees two of mama’s cubs. I don’t know when I’m gonna check out but the thought occurred to me I could be a father’s day weekend meal. Don’t be around mama bear with cubs around.
“Bobbi,” the state-tagged bear, grunted, looked at me like I smell (which I do) and peeled off toward the cubs. Phew! Bobbi checked on her cubs and then cased the property for a bit before heading off. I managed a few pics.
So how was your Father’s Day weekend? Beary, beary good?
Lennie,
As news of climate change, sustainability, and perhaps survival enters into the news in lots of ways, you were able to offer us a very near, clear and practical incident regarding global changes (at least in the past decade or two). It is not yet down to which being will be dinner for the other, thank goodness. Awareness of habits and responses allow for co-existence. It is one part of respect.
Yet the other landscape you cover daily does not have the same level of respect, sense of co-existence, or sharing of the basics of life needs. I am speaking of OIB of course.
Isn’t it interesting that #45 seems unaware of much of the serious science, data and theory, from worldwide stations, that could inform our national interest better than his failure to attend his Science 1 course in the severnth grade. And while his seeming ignorance of melting glaciers raising sea levels for our national attention, he is seeking ocean barriers across the Atlantic for his golf properties??
Honesty, consistency, and curiosity are reasonable values and attributes for those in charge. When they go missing, keep your protective floatable life vests handy? Do bears seek high ground naturally? Time will tell.
He saw a bear. That’s it. It’s not global warming, it’s not change. A bear came into his backyard. Period.
Haha..exactly my thought Bob….. Lennie, no worries, that poor creature is more scared of you than you are of her.
Bob,
Thanks for “baring” it all with your brief response that LG’s story is not a story of change. Your troll time line is temperamental. Perhaps you do not consume enough greens? Time will tell.
Harvey,
LG had the right story. A mother bear will defend her cubs from any danger. This is not Lennie the Three Bears, after all. Connecticut has more green tree cover than at any time since when the original settlers cleared the land of virgin forests to create room to raise crops and support livestock. That is change. And animal as well as plant populations are indicators, to those of us, who will pay attention, to some of the changes, I believe. Perhaps it is why I close with, Time will tell.
I have a friend that live in redding and let me tell you I could not live there. seems like nothing to do there and also to get on a highway is way to far. I need a town or city with things to do. My friend told me last year bears are a normal there. anyhow downtown Thursday starts this week can’t wait. its a fun thing to do in the summer in bpt.
Donj, back in the day that was the thing to on Thursday night, being downtown Bridgeport where the department stores stayed open until 9pm. People shopped but they also came out to be seen and meet and talk. The streets were filled cars driving up and down Main St and Fairfield Ave. and the sidewalks were filled with people especially on the corner of Main St and Fairfield Ave, people waiting for buses, it was a totally different Bridgeport.
Wow Ron really??? That must have been awesome!!! Downtown thursday is the best thing going on But if you ask me. Last year was my first time attending it and loved it i went all summer. Its a great thing to do after work and believe or not its a very peaceful event. Also people patronize the business downtown after or during the event. I have cousins who live in Ansonia who come to downtown thursday every week in the summer.
Donj, this was taken before my time but Bridgeport was like this in 1960’s. I found this picture on the Bridgeport Public Library website, they have a wealth of pictures of the City going way back to the beginning of Bridgeport.
https://bportlibrary.pastperfectonline.com/media/285EB5E1-A1E2-4007-8712-506922817510
Christmas time, Main Street and Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport, Connecticut,1947