Banff is one of those places I just seem to keep going back to. Summer 2004, summer 2005, Jan-Aug of 2006 and now summer 2008.

I only ever go for work, I’ve never been to Banff for ‘vacation’. The work is fun, I always meet great people, and the mountain scenery is pretty spectacular too. But one of my favourite things about Banff is the wildlife

You can see why this guy is called a Bighorn Sheep.

I was late for work once (in 2006) because there was an elk on the path up the mountain. My roommate and I had to go around the long way. I got to see another elk while I was out there this time, luckily this time I was in a car. It was standing so still I was starting to think it was a statue!

And then, with zoom!

I bought my camera (a Sony DSC-H3) almost entirely because of the 10x optical zoom. 10x! And even more in the digital range, but I don’t use that too often.

And a gratuitous mountain-at-start-of-sunset picture, just because a Banff post wouldn’t be the same without it:

It looks like a painting, doesn’t it? Sometimes I don’t believe it is real.

And in knitting news, my first Annetrelac sock has a heel! I survived the entrelac! More on that in the next post.