Moose Miracle
Last weekend we were hiking through the Albion Basin in Little Cottonwood Canyon near Alta, Utah. Again I was in wildflower heaven. But even more incredlbe was the bull moose we ran into munching grass about 20 feet away.
I have never been so close to a moose before. My husband kept telling the kids they would most likely never be so close again. That moose was right there! All the kids were thrilled to be so close except for my super sensitive youngest who cried and cried and cried because she was scared. You see, that moose was standing right on the path, and she thought we wouldn’t be able to get through. She worries about things.
And there he stood, looking like some sort of dark, hybrid horse with antlers. We had forgotten the camera, of course. Everyone around us was busy clicking and filming away while my family stared in wonder.
After I settled down about being so close to the moose, what I noticed most about him was his gentle brown eyes. They were beautiful. Moose are rumored to be fiesty and onery, but this one was mellow and nice. He reminded me of the moose in the Dr. Suess book Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose. This moose was like Thidwick!
“We’ll name him Thidwick, the kids all agreed.
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