The mysterious bear
Silas has been spending the last few afternoons after school lets out engaged in a project of picking holly berries and then carefully sticking them onto the thorns of the Himalayan Blackberry bushes that line the back hedgerow of the schoolyard. A large chunk of the blackberry bushes have been thus modified.
No, I’m not sure why he’s doing it. He’s an artist, and his muse isn’t saying a word.