Little Bear's Adventures
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Sunny April Day Special things are happening in Houston.  If you go out to Hermann Park during the month of April, you take a ride on an elephant's trunk. Only Me Well, people actually aren't supposed to do that. Beth could only stand beside the curled up trunk with its mighty tusks.  No climbing allowed... unless you're a 2-inch bear. 100 Elephants! There are 100 of these life-sized elephants.  The beautiful creatures were made in India, out of a plant called lantana. It makes pretty elephants, but in India it harms the land where elephants live. Another Trunk I climbed onto another trunk. It felt smooth and warm in the sun. Kind of like bamboo.  This trunk belonged to a Mommy Elephant. It was curled down low, so I could look over at the sweet baby, nearby.  That baby was my favorite. Maybe someday I can climb on a real elephant like Beth did once.
I hope so.
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Sticky Posing This is not my first time posing with a plastic baby. Not my first time resting on white icing, covered in purple, yellow & green sugar sprinkles!  This time the baby was attached to a little crown. I was tempted to feed that skinny baby some cake! But I didn't want to get any stickier than I already was!
Happy Mardi Gras 2025! Feed the Birds We had snow in Texas and Beth worried for the birds. She put out 2 bird feeders.  Beth let me sit next to 2 little Peanut People.  She put the house in the snow, but worried a squirrel would eat up all the seeds.  She hung it a little higher and let me see a bit. Then I noticed a cardinal on the other feeder.  I suddenly had visions of being eaten by a bird.
Beth took me inside. January 21, 2025 Today I am in Texas, sitting in the snow.  It's very cold and very pretty. Yesterday I was in California.  We had to come home a day early because snow was predicted the day we were supposed to fly home. Houston airports were going to close.  That seems pretty dramatic to close airports, for this pretty fluffy stuff.  But we arrived in Houston late at night and drove home safely. In the morning we woke to snow!
And I got to play! I Love Marble! There's a lot of cool, smooth marble inside the state capitol in Boise, Idaho!  It felt cool to sit a while and look around.  I wanted to sit on the other side of the column and look into the dome. But there was a man watching. Big Dome! Look how beautiful this dome looks from the bottom floor.  I promise, I did not jump over the railing.  But here I am, in the very center of the marble design, beneath the big dome.  I had a great view from that spot on the floor. Silly Don and Beth Beth said she wanted to enjoy that same view. She looks a lot sillier than me.  She and Don had way too much fun. Then they got some even sillier ideas.  Don dropped me and Beth tried to take a picture, looking like I'd jumped all the way from the tippy top of the dome.  I was exhausted from their silly play.  I finally said. Just put me back in your bag.
Christmas 2024 This is a picture of Christmas Day, of me and another Little Bear.  I am still the LITTLER Bear! But this whole thing was a little worrisome. Charlie's Christmas Wish My Little Buddy, Charlie asked Santa to bring her a Little Bear for Christmas.  That scared me. Am I not good enough? But then I remembered, that I live with Beth.  Charlie asked Santa to also bring a little bike and a skateboard for her Little Bear. 2 Bears and 2 Toys That actually worked out pretty well!  Beth brought me out of the bag and I was introduced to Charlie's Little Bear.
But Big Little Bear got to ride the tricycle and she put me down on the skateboard. I felt like I was taking a nap. No fair.  Then she helped me sit up on the skateboard and I could enjoy the action!
Yay for a new friend and new Christmas toys! Old Tree This Redwood tree is old. I'm feeling very old myself. Too old to climb trees.  I like to just lean back into the bark and rest a while. I don't know how many hundreds of years old this tree is, but it's very tall.  It would have taken me a whole week, if I'd tried to climb to the top.  It might have taken me only a couple seconds to fall to the ground... if the wind blew!
That's why I don't climb trees anymore! Deja Vu This is not the first time that I've sat on the top of a pinecone.  I've also been on this very beach before, in South Lake Tahoe.  Pinecones on beaches. That just seems odd. I wonder if this is the very pinecone I sat on about 8 years ago!
A Song? Beth says there's a song called Me and My Arrow.  I don't know about that, but here's a picture of... me and my arrow.
I'd like to tell you that Beth skillfully shot the arrow with her bow and I rode along!  But that is not the truth. She has no archery skills. She just posed me for the photo.  She gave up trying to shoot the arrow and put it way. Then we headed off towards those mountains, to Joshua Tree National Park.
She forgot to pose me in a Joshua Tree. How can it be Halloween? This pumpkin is not orange.  And I have no costume!
But Happy Halloween anyway! Cabbage? There was no snow in Idaho. It was August when we visited.  So I climbed inside this thing. It was soft and cool and it looked kind of like a cabbage.  I sat right in the middle, in a tiny bit of shade.  There were flowers and rocks nearby. I admired them all, from my spot on the "cabbage".  A few people walked by, but not one person noticed me. They were too busy looking up at the mountains!
Fires We stopped for gas last summer in Idaho.  Skies were hazy from forest fires, but we saw something bright and green! Beth let me climb up on the nose of the Sinclair Dinosaur!  It was smooth and slippery, but I didn't slide off. Clair! There was a sign that told us the dinosaur's name was Clair! It invited us to get on Clair and take pictures.  Beth did. I liked the way Clair was smiling.  Smoke didn't bother her.  I was smiling too, because I was able to sit high on Clair's nose! Not everybody gets to that.
One Night in Pueblo, Colorado We spent one night in this crazy mansion.  I spent a lot of time exploring. Guess what I'm sitting on! It's made of wood.  This carved part in not meant for sitting, if you a person.  People sit on the soft velvet cushion. But I'm a 2-inch bear!
Lucky me! Soft and Colorful I like sitting on soft things.  I like colorful things, too. Grand Furniture I couldn't decide which piece of velvet furniture was my favorite.  They were all comfy. I kept moving from one to the other. Orman Mansion That's the kind of thing you do, when you stay in a Mansion in Pueblo, Colorado.  When the Orman Family lived here years ago, I wonder if they jumped around from couch to chair, like I did? Kids on the Banister Did the Orman kids slide down the banister?  Probably not! Too many things in the way. From Velvet to Wood From the blue couch I looked up at the funny wooden animal, at the bottom of the railing.  Who cares about velvet, when you can climb on a funny lion creature, with wings! Griffin? I think this big guy was a Griffin.  I'll bet the Orman kids weren't allowed on this guy, but I climbed to the top of his head.  Beth said, "Cool! You look like you're sitting on top of a Greek mask, worn by actors in the ancient theatres of Greece."
I said. "I can tell you're jealous." Beach? We didn't really go to the beach.  But we sat in some sunshine and had some fun with shells.  She stayed inside, though. My favorite Buddy, Charlie had played outside in the sun all morning.  Charlie put me inside the conch shell very carefully. I didn't want to get stuck deep inside!  Then she put me right on top of a scallop shell, beside some spotted shells with fun shapes.   Charlie thought it was pretty funny. I loved playing on our pretend beach, with our clean shells.  No worries about waves and sand!
In the Amana Colonies Last fall, Beth and Don took me to a historic village in Iowa. We stayed in a hotel that was once a textile mill.  This is me, sitting inside a cardboard tube, wrapped with wool yarn. There were lots of other rolls of yarn. So many colors! Beth let me pick the color I liked best. Green!  What do we call those tubes of rolled yarn? It was a pretty display. This display of yarn was near the lobby.  I sat for a bit and watched a few people come and go.  Beth took me outside to see the old smoke stack. I asked her to pose me way up there.
She said, "Not today." Jardin des Tuileries We headed towards this famous park in Paris, last November. I had my eye on the Ferris Wheel.  Maybe Beth would let me ride! But Beth stopped to pose me on a statue instead.  That was sort of entertaining. But Beth just rested me on the statue's foot.  Beth scooped me up and put me back in her bag.  By the time we got near the Ferris Wheel, Beth said it was too crowded to get me out.
Oh well. A Trip to Paris In November, Beth and Don took me to Paris.  They didn't pose me near the Eiffel Tower or the Arc de Triomph.  Beth placed me on a slippery surface near a green lawn.  She told me to enjoy the view. That was the Louvre Museum, far across the lawn.
Thanks so much Beth, for not taking me inside the Louvre, to see the Mona Lisa. National Park In Oregon Today I'm remembering a trip last June.  I sat on a rock, high above Crater Lake and wondered. I wondered about that cold snow. I wondered about cold water.  I wondered about how the lake was formed by the collapse of a volcano, over 7,000 years ago.
There was a lot to think about. Mostly I thought about how I didn't want a big breeze to blow my way and send me tumbling...! 4 Faces Here I am, joining in with a set of nesting dolls.  I tried to look pleasant, like the other 3 faces.  But I left the 3 dolls alone after a while. I couldn't conjure up a proper smile. Missing My Buddy Seeing the dolls made me miss my Buddy, Charlie. Last June, Charlie was 2 and we played with the nesting dolls.  Charlie liked to take out the little "Baby" doll and hide it. Then she'd ask, "Where's Baby?" Me Then Charlie had fun putting me inside the big doll.  She was very pleased with herself. And I was happy to play.
It's been almost a year since we played with these dolls. Charlie is 3 and much bigger. I hope she'll still want to hide me in the doll. |
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