Bearly in Time

Fall is the time when bears are feasting on salmon in the streams and getting ready to den for the winter. Here in Sitka I have only seen a bear way far away. Charles hadn't seen one and Anna REALLY wanted to see one as one of her AFS friends had just seen one.
Well, just a quarter mile from home on Tuesday on the main road(Sawmill Creek) we saw a fairly small brown bear(ie, grizzly) who had just crossed the road and climbed up some rock and into the woods. Lori has seen several bears in our neighborhood. Besides my aforementioned sighting, I have seen bears 2 or 3 times when on Prince of Wales Island for work... Those are black bears as they don't have the browns. Of course, we don't have any black bears here.