It's starting to look like Spring here.....inside the greenhouse. The pansies are beginning to bloom. Ron

No actual bear photos, except from zoos. Although at one point we had a bear on our front deck, and at another point our neighbor shot a bear that was repeated raiding his trash cans. I do have this picture of my brother from a trip to the Smokey Mountains National Park where he took part in a nature program put on by the park rangers about the important animals in the local ecosystem.

Murraysmom - I love your dogs, they are so cute! I'm not a "dog person," but if I was ever to have one, I would choose adorable breeds such as you have.

Annie Deighnaugh I don't know if you know anything about ferrets but if you want to see dead sleep they are the ones that do it best. One of our ferrets had gone into dead sleep and this was the first time we had owned ferrets and the first time one did this. Scared the crap out of us!!! We were panicking and shaking him (not violently of course) and calling his name. We finally laid him on the bed to try and think of what to do and he just woke up like nothing happened. :\