"I desired dragons with a profound desire...the world that contained even the imagination of (dragons) was richer and more beautiful, at whatever cost of peril."
Well, there are no dragons currently in Ered Gelin that I know of, but there are bears! And there is something exhilarating about sharing your living space (carefully!) with such magnificent and powerful creatures.
This 300+ pound beauty hung around our house last week for two hours. We couldn't imagine why until my wife spotted two teddy-bear sized cubs way up in a birch tree beside the house! Evidently the trio had been passing through our meadow when they heard our lab barking inside (luckily he WAS inside!), and so Mama Bear sent the little ones up the nearest tree. They didn't want to come down, so she just stayed put, despite the obnoxious barking dog. We put our dog in a room where he couldn't see the bear, and finally at dusk, Mama Bear climbed up the tree herself and explained to the cubs that labs are really nothing to be afraid of. Down they came. and away they went!
(Bears may not be the only big predators here now. In recent years there have been stories that catamounts, known elsewhere as mountain lions, may have returned to our region after an absence of 100 years,

