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BEARS on a BENCH, and other things

The bear family visited the wisteria arbor again the other day! They actually made the rounds of all their favorite haunts on this same day, so I'm busy sorting through loads of footage. These favorite spots have several cameras posted around them, so it can take me a while to find my favorite footage from each visit. I saved the 3rd camera angle from this visit to use in another video. I'm amazed that these bears have gotten up on that bench a few times without ever knocking it down or over, and without tearing it apart. The last bear family destroyed our rustic rocking chair pretty quickly, although truth be told, that chair probably wouldn't have lasted much longer in the elements, anyway. I love it that the bears know that the soft cushion is made for sitting on. I just wish they'd relinquish the idea that it is also for tearing apart. Thankfully, the bench cushion is still in one piece. We shall see how long it lasts! My Pink Lady Apple tree, on the other hand, was pretty much splintered to smithereens during this visit. (Thanks to the Other Darryl.) Unfortunately, the bears also destroyed my Prairie Fire Crabapple that was planted down the hill. The attack on that tree actually surprised me because it grew and remained unmolested all the years prior to this. It was pretty mature and doing beautifully. Oh well. It's not like there is any shortage of saplings in these woods, or along our forest's edge. For some reason, bears are inexorably drawn to the more expensive, hand-picked, hand-planted trees - whether they are weeping or upright, evergreen or deciduous. Maybe they like how they smell and know that they don't "belong" in the forest? Or maybe they just have expensive taste, or definite opinions on landscaping? Thankfully the apple trees I lost to the bears were on the cheap side, but I've lost plenty of others trees and shrubs before that were a good bit pricier. I must be a glutton for punishment. Somehow, being able to actually watch the bears destroy my trees - on video, after the fact - makes these losses a little easier for me, and sometimes even morbidly enjoyable. I rarely ever know the bears have been in an area until I've see the damage they've left behind, or when I see footage of their visits via my trail cameras. I planted most of these fruit trees for the critters, in the end. I was hoping my husband and I might get an apple or two out of them, but I was figuring the critters would get to most of the fruit first. I was just hoping the bears would be able to enjoy some of the fruit from the trees, without destroying the trees themselves before they could even produce any fruit. Ha Ha. (In this respect, among others, the bears really remind me of our doggies who just gotta chew. It's what they do! :-)