Almost Perfect

Late last night I arrived at the Banff Centre for the Almost Perfect residency I’ll be doing throughout November.

It was dark when I arrived (and, admittedly, I had my eyes shut for most of the drive over from Calgary airport) so I had no idea of what sort of terrain I was coming into other than being aware that I could see many, many more stars than I was used to and there were some quite pointy silhouettes at the side of the road.

It was still dark when I drew my curtains this morning so that wasn’t much more informative.

A hike up Tunnel Mountain this afternoon put things into perspective though:

Banff

In the photo above you can see the Banff Centre campus in the near left-hand corner, with Banff town to the right. Here’s the view to the other side:

view from the top of Tunnel Mountain

The rest of today was taken up with meeting and greeting and orientation stuff, but my first impressions are that it’s an amazing place and I’m very excited to be here. For the time being though, I sleep.