The elk forgot the rule about not approaching close enough to make the animal change its behavior. First, he approached the road so close, we stopped our car and took a picture out the window. When we then drove on past and stopped ahead of him so Judy could get out of the car and take a picture head-on (with the telephoto), the elk again broke the rule. He walked straight at Judy in such a manner that she altered her behavior again and jumped back in the car.
The bear… we were in a car… in a bear park. Here’s another bear picture (from the car).
Rain. Cold. I can still work; we have satellite internet, but it works at a crawl because of the thick clouds (and the angle we have to point through them because we’re so far north). Cabin fever. That looks way too much like snow on the nearby peaks for August.
We had to switch our internet dish to a different satellite for Canada. The one we use in the states is too low on the horizon for here. I bought some music to download. It didn’t download. It took ten minutes of troubleshooting to figure out that I bought music to download in the U.S. It wouldn’t allow a download to our current location. Guess I’ll get it later. Broncos preseason. New coach. New team. Hardly a name we know.