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?

Everywhere you go in Banff right now you see these gorgeous combinations of blues, greens and golds.

The Nanotech Dermal Display, “a population of about three billion display pixel robots…permanently implanted a fraction of a mm under the surface of the skin…on the back of the hand. Photons emitted by these pixel bots would produce an image on the surface of the skin.” What would be displayed? Medical information from all of …

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Today it’s been snowing off and on here in Banff. During an extended “off” period a group of us walked downtown, and from the bridge over the Bow River I captured this dramatic photo of cloud-shrouded peaks.

Each night, as part of the Writing With Style program here at the Banff Centre, there are readings by some of the participaing writers. Here I am last night, giving my reading.