by Tina Mitchell Just after June’s summer solstice, my husband and I were enjoying a lazy morning, drinking coffee and watching television, when movement outside the windows caught my eye. Probably a mule deer heading for a drink from the birdbath, I thought as I stood up to look. Whoa – definitely not a deer. A slender, light brown bear ambled across the patio. What was wrong with this picture? First, this bear was at least the third ursine appearance here since Memorial Day. Our arid, scrubby, piñon/juniper habitat offers very little food for a bear, especially in early summer. ...