These are 2 bear posters I have.
The first one looks the most like, let’s call him “My Bear,” of the images I’ve seen, and I’ve looked at many looking for as close a facsimile I could find. The water on the whiskers does it. Weighs them down just right.
The second poster is for its “close-up” value. Of the bear pictures I’ve sorted through, it’s the closest to replicating the proximity, the frame in which I saw him when I first saw him. Sometimes the poster catches my eye and a voice in my head reflexively says, “I know, I know, I know.”
I had to keep the second covered for awhile last summer and fall.
Together, they give me the face and the distance from which we met.
Here’s a close-up of the bear who looked the most like mine.
