Bearing up

We're slowly getting onto the new time zone. I slept from about 10pm to 6am last night, which is my usual non-Spain pattern. In Spain it was more like 11pm-7am (or 8am, haha). It was cloudy today and threatened rain, but non appeared. What did appear was a pair of bears:

This one and another, clearly unhealthy, frailer one came to the property several times. Betty puts out feed corn for them and the deer. I think she just likes to see the animals. I find it interesting to see how the two seem to travel everywhere together. The sickly one is missing 90% of its fur, is significantly thinner and is clearly not long for this world. The healthy one seems to tolerate its presence. Similarly, there are three healthy deer that visit--two males and a female. They have visited the property as a trio each of the days we've been here.

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Laura and I took a bit of a hike in the woods. We walked along the ridge behind the property and then down to Red House Hollow about 1 mile above Betty's driveway:

Then we walked the length of the road down to the paved road, Holden Creek Rd. This is a photo of Holden Creek:

This is the Freeland's house near the intersection of Red House Hollow and Holden Creek Rd:

The Freelands live locally and have visited this, their "cabin", on the weekends for many years. It's a lovely home and property.