On the Ninth Day of Christmas…

…oh a-dither, a-dather! Do we riff off of “pipers piping”? Or go with the 1909 version of “ladies dancing” (now moved to number 12)? Or “drummers drumming” in a competing version from 1907? Or, my personal favorite, “bears a-beating” from a 1900 version? And there are others involving other barnyard animals. It’s my little conceit, this 12-day run of posts: I’m picking the bears. I don’t have nine of them in one photo. So….

Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Tennessee side. May 2004.
Grizzly bear ponders life beneath his fountain. North Carolina Zoo, February 2006.

…and multiply by three…

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