Another Banff hillside, another Banff forest.

Remember all the excitement about the discovery of the skeleton of a “hobbit,” a small version of a human the discoverers believed to be an example of an entirely separate human species that had evolved in isolation on its island home? There’s some skepticism arising: an Indonesian anthropologist says the “hobbit” was really a microcephalic …

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Another gorgeous day in Banff, another gorgeous picture of another gorgeous mountain by another gorgeous photographer…er, maybe I’m getting a little carried away.

Today I walked a bit further along the river than I did earlier in the week so I could take photos of the Bow Falls; I was rewarded with this rainbow.

Here are Banff’s Bow Falls from downstream. There are two tour buses worth of people just out of frame to the left. I prefer to pretend I had the place to myself.

Yellow leaves, sunlight and shadow on another perfect autumn day in Banff.

A plague has ravaged the online world of Warcraft.

The sun paints pathways of lights on the forest floor on the hillside below the Banff Centre.

Gorgeous colours abound on a perfect autumn day in Banff.

There’s more to see in Banff than mountains. I spotted this butterfly in the flowers alongside the Banff Fire Hall.

Cascade Mountain, framed by trees. This is one of Banff’s landmark mountains, the other being (see next post)…

Mount Rundle, taken from the sixth-floor balcony of Lloyd Hall at the Banff Centre. Pretty, eh?