On a recent walk, snapped a cellphone shot of the elusive Burdock Bear.
Prickly-looking but surprisingly friendly, they’ll attach themselves your coat and follow you home.
On a recent walk, snapped a cellphone shot of the elusive Burdock Bear.
Prickly-looking but surprisingly friendly, they’ll attach themselves your coat and follow you home.
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What a funny snapshot! 🙂
😊
Happy New Year, Robert. (And try to avoid bears)
happy new year Neil!
It’s hard to bear how much like a bear that looks. That snow supports the notion that it was cold enough for those seed capsules to be brrr-docks.
Brrr-dock It’s pretty good, Steve I like that!
I’m relieved you didn’t dock me any points for punning around with brrr-dock.
Three cheers for Burdock Bear, and Happy New Year! [31 Dec here in NZ]
Thanks & Happy New Year, Liz!!!
There once was a bear made of burs
that longed to have silkier fur.
Despite all his prickles
he wished for a tickle,
but only avoidance seemed sure.
Excellent! 😁
I swear — he looks enough like a bear that I wanted to pet him! Bad move, I’d say.
They aren’t as prickly as they look, I pulled enough of these out of my dog’s fur to know them pretty well
You might have to wear this bear,
when walking through nature.
Sampling thistles you care
a thought held for future
Very nice, Gerard!
Well, I see Cookie Monster. Maybe all this time he was a brunette. Happy new year, Robert!
Thanks Jason, Happy New Year!
I miss those; I remember the burdock sticking to me often, as I tromped through the woods growing up in central Iowa.
Hi Thomas – I think if you hike along the pastures at the Finger Lakes Forest, you’ll run into them again. They’ve actually got very pretty blossoms, I usually think it’s thistles until I get pretty close. My grandmother’s neighbors used to dig them up in the spring, in the pasture behind her house, and ate the base of the stalks like they were artichoke hearts, but I’ve never tried that. I was just in Iowa a few days ago – went to Waterloo on kind of a whim.
haha – though I cringe a little knowing I would have to pull those off my dog
Hi Mark – Yes, I used to have to comb them out of our Lab, quite a job
we have huskies and it’s a real PITA
I’ve worn my share of that bear’s fur. Well seen and quite a cutie, Robert.
Thanks Steve and Happy New Year
Where are other two? And Goldilocks?
Haha I think you’ve wandered into the wrong storytale, Denzil!
Maybe! Must have been thinking of the neighburs!
A good pun warms the cockleburs of my heart.
That’s a massive and photogenic clump of those fearsome burrs. Best wishes for 2022!
Thanks Tom, same to you!
Haha. Very good. Happy New Year, Robert.
Happy New Year to you, George
Haha, nice. Hope all is well, Robert!
Thanks Kevin, we’ve survived a month of winter already and beginning to believe we’ll survive until spring! Hope all is well in California, too.
Wow! Looking like a bear! Well shot! 😊😊
Thank you, Priti. 😊
Oh no, I don’t want to get too close to that guy! Really surprising to see a clump like that, Robert! I am not going to allow myself to imagine you constructing this. 🙂
Oh yes I will come clean and admit this was an impromptu art project, stopped to drink some water and there wasn’t enough snow to work with, and burdock isn’t all that scratchy really, fun to use 👨🏼🎨
Haha, Robert! What a find and I immediately saw the bear. 🙂 Happiest of times in the new year to you!
Thank thank you Jean and best wishes for the new year to you too!! The bear is an example of my advanced modeling skills, I wanted to make a snowman but there was hardly any snow around so I made this creature instead ☃️🐻😊
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