This was a conversation my wife, Carolyn, and I had on May 28th, 2021. We were in the garage ready to head to Loveland to get important stuff like Sam’s hotdogs, chicken fried rice, and a 35 pack of Diet Coke. I was putting my camera in the back seat, and she said, “Why do you take your camera everywhere?” I answered, “Because, you never know.”
Twenty minutes later, we were part way down the canyon, when we came upon a line of cars pulled over. Carolyn saw it first, a large black bear was standing tall on the front porch of a small cabin, pounding his front paws on the door (how do bears know it’s a door?). She was huffing and puffing like a big bad wolf. Then I pointed at the twin cubs clinging to a branch high up in a tree.
Carolyn yelled, “Get your camera. Get your camera.” Grabbing my Canon, under my breath I teased, “You never know.”…