“These right here?” Breck points over our heads, to one of the small trees that line the pedestrian walkway where we’ve been questing for an affordable lunch. “Crabapples. The city planted crabapple trees.” People enjoy the profusion of pink spring blossoms. That then turn into bite-sized apples that bears mouth straight off the branch, like cartoon emperors with their clusters of grapes. Black bears show up midday in downtown Aspen regularly enough that the city passed a law making it a ticketable offense to ignore the CPW officer standing guard and go right up to a bear and snap a selfie.
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