Please, don't feed the bears!

Cousin Beth had called last night around 11:00 to say she had returned from North Carolina and we agreed to meet at her house around 10 this morning.  We spent several hours just visiting and touring their new house.  It's quite a place in a beautiful wooded setting.  Tom, Beth and I went to lunch at the Main Street Cafe in Stanardsville and then took a drive over to the Shenandoah National Park.  Beth and Geoff live just 8 miles from an entrance station to the Skyline Drive.  We drove 15 miles on the drive to the Byrd Visitor Station making several stops at overlooks along the way.  At the Visitor Center we watched a couple films and toured the exhibits, then made the return drive back to Beth and Geoff's house just in time to greet Geoff as he returned from a week's business trip to Florida.  Along the Skyline Drive we noticed something moving in the green growth along the road.  Whoa!!!  That's a bear!  We stopped and backed up to where we thought we'd seen him and he had wandered down to the edge of the road.  If we had opened the window, we could have pet him!  No wonder the sign in the office at the campground says "Please, don't feed the bears!"  Beth and Geoff have also had a bear in their yard as evidenced by the demolished bird feeder at the top of a tall pole.