Comixtalk, NanoWrimo, and Head-smashed-in (trip report part 2)

Check out Comixtalk; I did the header graphic for this month's issue. In case you're not familiar with this zine, Comixtalk is a comics blog with tons of great webcomic news, articles, interviews and other comic-related info. For you writers out there, it's also a paying market.

Plus NaNoWriMo has started, which means my comics should start appearing today. They hadn't updated the comics area when I checked just now, but hopefully soon!



Enjoyed trick-or-treating with my nieces yesterday, though there seemed to fewer trick-or-treaters out than usual. What about the rest of you? Same as last year? Less? More? I'm curious. Anyway, I was highly amused by the toothbrush that ended up in the candy somehow, imprinted with the name and phone number of a local dentist. Brilliant marketing strategy. :-)

I also noticed that the Halloween candy I never did like as a kid is still in use:



But back to my Alberta visit...



After 20 degrees Celsius weather in Toronto, I went to Calgary and woke up to -5 deg. temperatures the first morning! Cathy had to scrape ice and snow off her car before we set off. I was glad I brought my winter gear.



Ever since reading Parki's trip report from his cross-Canada motorcycle adventure, I've wanted to see Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump near Fort Macleod, Alberta (mainly because of the name, I guiltily confess). Cathy read that Blathering and asked me if I wanted to go see it.

The buffalo jump was used for thousands of years by the aboriginal plains people to kill buffalo by driving them off the 10 metre high cliff. The somewhat gruesome name, however, comes from a legend that a young Blackfoot wanted to watch the buffalo jumping off the cliff from below but got accidentally crushed by them instead.

Anyway, we had a wonderful walk outdoors plus the museum was fascinating, with lots of interesting exhibits and info.



The scenery on our drives and walks was stunning. Toronto has no mountains, and I spent most of the trip ooo-ing and aaah-ing over the incredible landscape. Right now I'm using the photo at the top of this Blathering and the one below as my desktop pictures:



Because of the mountain landscapes, I opted to use my Canon 17-85 lens as my walkaround but switched to the Sigma 30/1.4 in the evenings. All the Alberta scenery shots in this Blathering were taken with the Canon lens. The candy shots and the photo of Cathy at the bottom were taken with my Sigma.

We even saw some elk by the side of the road:



More tomorrow.

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