‘No-one can know exactly why or how the young wolf and bear became friends. I think that perhaps they were both alone and they were young and a bit unsure of how to survive alone.’
‘It seems to me that they feel safe being together, and so every evening met up for their dinner.’
‘It’s very unusual to see a bear and a wolf getting on like this… It is nice to share rare events in the wild that you would never expect to see.’
'When I realised that no one had observed bears and wolves living near each other and becoming friends in Europe, I concentrated more and more on getting pictures to show what can happen in nature. Then I came across these two and knew that it made the perfect story.
Wanted to write something retrospective about a year of music sketches before starting another one, failed. Wanted to not put doing this one off until Monday night, aaand failed. But I kind of love it so it’s okay I guess. I wasn’t 100% sure I was going to do this again this year, and I think I might do it a little differently, but I think I’d miss it now if I gave it up. And that retrospective thing might still be on the way.
So the guy who wrote the song from Portal’s end credits did a version with Sara Quin on vocals, apparently back in 2011, and I somehow never knew it existed. Obviously it’s pretty much my favorite thing ever.
So I was going to skip this week since it felt like it should stop at 52 (though admittedly I’ve missed a few), but then I thought maybe it should be a bonus week and I should get all my gear out and do something special, but then I didn’t do that, so here’s this.
Goodbye 2015. For better or worse, I think you have been what I needed.
