Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Sarah and the Bear

I'm smiling after reading this article about Sarah, Todd and Piper Palin encountering a mama bear and her cubs just a couple of feet from them as they salmon fished. While the article mentions the Palins were "stunned", I must say that they appear very poised in the photo. That doesn't surprise me a bit.

Coincidentally, a friend and I had just been talking about Jimmy Carter's famous fishing encounter with a ferocious, attacking, swimming(!) "Killer Rabbit" a/k/a Killer Water Bunny. The official photographs mentioned in this article don't do the menacing rodent justice, so I decided to use a cartoonist's rendition of the encounter for fairness in comparison.  Here we go...

                                           Sarah and the Bear:





                                       Jimmy and the Killer Water Bunny:




I'll leave it at that.

3 comments:

blake said...

Ha! Awesome!

chickelit said...

The mama bear is actually looking rather emaciated don't you think? Kind of like the bear these days on the California State flag.

dog training brisbane said...

Indeed, Mama Bear does look like a little malnourished. She do need a lot of salmon. Give 'em some.