Hey Little Grizzly....Here girl, are you hungry?

picture courtesy of the great photographing Stutzman family, who journeyed north from the colorado rockies to meet us tanzanian vagabondes in the much more rustic and romanesque canadian rockies, i was shocked that they caught a new pet, mama grizzly adams with two youngins, when all the tourists saw this beloved bear on the side of the road they all got out of their cars and started taking pictures! um, yeah, not so safe. kinda naive. very naive. actually pretty dumb. anyway, it was my first time to see a grizzley bear in the wild. as well as so many unabashedly interested and mal-informed touristidos who forgot to take a lesson in grizzly sight-seeing from smokey the bear who must be retired by now. but it was a beautiful bear, i wanted to sing to her and her cubs... next time, when there are not so many ungaurded nikon-carrying bystanders around.