The elk in the hedge and on the lawn

Notice the antlers above the hedge?

There aren't too many traffic jams in Jasper, Alberta.  But if you're a tourist, and you notice a largish elk grazing on someone's front hedge, you tend to stop.  So we, and a few other tourists, stopped and snapped some pictures.  As tourists from San Diego, we're entitled. What you can't see clearly in the photo above is the house owner completely ignoring us and his wild visitor.

Wild elk make themselves at home at Jasper Lodge.

This juvenile is keeping the grass trimmed right outside our cabin.

When we arrived at our lodge in Jasper, we were delighted to find more elk loping about.  They were on a mission to trim the grass and couldn't be bothered to acknowledge us.  "They come, they go," a lodge employee told us,  "it's their park, after all."