Wilderness Calling

Spring in Europe is beautiful - but it's not a patch on having a wild grizzly bear on your front lawn

A grizzly bear in our yard in May 2021. Photo by Sage Raymond.

It's surely the best time of year to be in a European city. The birds are singing in the parks, the days are growing longer, and the temperatures, for the most part, are just perfect, neither too hot, nor too cold.

Here in the Hungarian capital Budapest, where I have been teaching university s…