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Here’s the proof I made it to the top of Tunnel Mountain today.

This is the view from near the top of Tunnel Mountain, looking down on the Banff Springs Hotel golf course. That’s Mount Rundle rising on the right.

This is cool: an Italian computer programmer discovered the remains of an ancient Roman villa–not by stumbling over the ruins during a hike, or anything mundane like that, but by browsing Google Earth images.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, stronomers have confirmed that the dark mass at the centre of the Andromeda galaxy is a massive black hole–but they can’t explain why it has a disk of blue stars orbiting it. As Billy Shakespeare wrote, “There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your …

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If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, how many birds in the hand are fifteen or so birds in the bush worth? Anyone?

Here’s a classic Banff view: these are the mountains you see at the head of the Bow River valley when you’re standing on the viewing deck at the famous Banff Springs Hotel.

Keep your eyes open in Banff, and you’ll find beautiful pictures in unexpected places.

The view out my window when I got up this morning.

Despite the fact I am still an astonishingly young man, I do find that I occasionally have more trouble remembering things than I did twenty years ago (when I was news editor of the Weyburn Review, despite being a mere infant at the time). It is, alas, an indisputable fact that our brains change as …

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I love to watch light and shadow playing with each other.

…except, of course, I’m in Canada.

View from the sixth floor of Lloyd Hall at The Banff Centre. As you can see, it’s a really fine place to be.