Not really sure that we should think of bears in the back yard as cute... But that's always the reaction.
Mom and her cubs decided to visit again. Cubs are quite a bit bigger than
last time - only managed to get one in the picture, the other was already playing over the fence. We were out on the deck this time!
At this point we decided to head indoors and give them some space. These are black bears, they are shy and do not like humans and will avoid us whenever possible, which is probably a good thing. So if we want them to get close (why would you want a bear to get close? - For the photos obviously!

) then it's best not to be in their faces. The rest of the photos were taken from inside. Then a neighbor came out onto his deck, startled mom (both cubs were now on the other side of the fence), and in her effort to climb over the fence she broke it, so just wandered through the hole she'd made.