Driving through Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Easter Sunday evening. I stopped to photograph some turkey. (see last Saturday’s post) and while I was shooting inside a fence toward a large meadow, a bear emerged from the woods directly behind me. One large male Black Bear. I moved toward my car a few feet not sure which way he was going and took a shot of him. Then moving even closer to the car (although the top was down on the Miata, so more like an entree bowl to that bear) but he stayed on a course about 40 feet from me and heading out into the meadow. I get a few shots of him traveling in the grass toward the bottom and, I think, a stream. He even smiled for the camera as he crossed the field - so quite a friendly bear. Right?
