bare, bear

Bare or bare means naked or without covering--
Don't let the children run around in their bare feet.
By November most of the trees are bare.
Men traditionally go to church with bare heads.

Bear or bear ( rhymes with bare ) is considered two words--one means the creature who lives in the woods or the zoo--
Don't feed the bears.
Smoky the Bear says to put out fires.
"I just want to be your teddy bear."
Bear or bear also means to endure something, or to carry as a load, literal or figurative--
They hired someone to bear their goods up the mountain.
Illness can be a heavy load to bear.
Bear it in mind.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"Bear in mind that it's easy to see a bear in the forest when the trees are bare."

Note--"barely" ( pronounced bare lee ) means almost not at all, or by only a very slim margin--
They just barely won the game.
She was barely 18 years old.
Not to be confused with barley ( pronounced bar lee ), which is a cereal grain--as in barley soup--
"Oats, peas beans and barley grow..."