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Oil on Stretched Canvas – Framed
36 x 30 inches
Eldridge Hardie and I were a mile or so up a creek in Alaska, just below a high bank when I heard a couple of cloven animals running through the brush. I expected to see a cow moose and her calf cross the stream, hopefully above or below us, and not over the steep bank to our immediate left.
The moose chose not to cross, however, and angled away from the river. A minute or two later another animal followed, but the cadence was different, and the hair on the back of my neck stiffened.
The big brown bear crested the bank, looking for the dinner that had just escaped its pursuit. From our angle, down on the water, it looked huge. When I banged on the side of the boat and yelled to let it know we were human, the bear stood to its full height and looked enormous!
