Veronica says hello

Veronica popping up to say hello when she realized that she was being watched.

Curled up on the windowsill

 Veronica, curled up in her favorite spot on the windowsill.

Perching and relaxing

Salvatore active and eager, while Veronica is curled up to sleep.

Salvatore eating Veronica's leftovers

Veronica was laying quietly on the counter after she finished eating her food. Salvatore was too eager for her leftovers to wait for her to get down.

Veronica colonizing a puzzle

Our dear old kitty Veronica passed away on Christmas Eve, after a long, slow, and peaceful decline, so for the next few days I plan to share photos from her last year. Here is one showing her hard at work on one of her favorite activities: helping with jigsaw puzzles by getting in the middle of them.

Traveling Animals - Dagstuhl Key

Entering a bedroom at the old manor-house-turned-conference-center at Schloss Dagstuhl with a giant ancient key.

Traveling Animals - Airport Snow

Airport operating under snow conditions.

Traveling Animals - Blizzard Departure

Driving to the airport in blizzard conditions, hoping my flights won't be messed up.

Traveling Animals - Trees Outside

From this room, just at the height of the treetops outside.

Traveling Animals - Construction View

 Looking out across a big construction site by my hotel.

Traveling Animals - Redeye Flight

Waiting late at night in the San Francisco airport to board a redeye flight. So many West-to-East flights there start at or after midnight that the lounges stay open late and make special accommodations for bleary business travelers.

Traveling Animals - Berkeley Street

 Looking out across the shabby high-priced buildings of a Berkeley street.

Traveling Animals - Exhausted Night

Arriving exhausted and late to San Francisco, well past my bedtime even neglecting the two hours of time change.

Traveling Animals - Rainy Race

 Encountering an unexpected marathon-adjacent race, through Boston streets in the rain.

Traveling Animals - Waking Up

 Getting up in the morning from a soft enveloping bed.

Traveling Animals - Snowy Morning in Maine

 Looking out the window to a snowy farmscape.

Traveling Animals - Outside Ramp

Not many major airports still have you walk outside to the airplanes, but it's pretty common for the little regional flights from Charlotte.

Traveling Animals - Luggage Pile

Piles of luggage and stuff, spread over a hotel suite table.

Traveling Animals - Urban Canyon

 Deep urban canyons in downtown Boston.

Traveling Animals - Airport Shades

Shades drawing down at the airport to block the glare of the rising morning sun.

Traveling Animals - Upside Down

Bored moose, experimenting with being upside down just like its owner might have done if she were there.

Traveling Animals - All Alone

 All alone and isolated in an empty hotel room.

Traveling Animals - Canyons

 Looking down into deepening shadows over canyons in the Cascade Mountains.

Traveling Animals - Arizona Highway

Blasting through the desert on the long empty stretches between Tucson and Phoenix, surrounded by a flood of hustling semi trucks and little else.

Traveling Animals - Packing Up

 Another trip coming to its end.

Traveling Animals - Morning Stretch

 Doing some morning stretches by the window.

Traveling Animals - AV Management

Back behind the scenes, working with the folks who will put a presentation up on the big screen.

Traveling Animals - Packed to Go

 All packed up and ready to head home again.

Traveling Animals - California Coast

 Looking down on the craggy fast-eroding folds of mountain on the California coast.

Traveling Animals - Hotel Suite

Out on the edges of the suburbs, flukes of pricing sometimes make it just as cheap to stay in a little "extended stay" suite instead of just a normal hotel room. I always like that better when I can, since there's generally a better place to sit and work and a proper little kitchenette to use.

Traveling Animals - Setting up

Getting set up to start working from the hotel room, electronics unpacked and soon to be plugged in.

Traveling Animals - Arizona Hills

 Looking out at craggy red Arizona hills in the early morning.

Traveling Animals - Hotel Bed

 Another empty hotel bed, away from family and home.

Traveling Animals - Montana Wind Farms

 Driving through high, dry wind-farms near Judith Gap, Montana.

Traveling Animals - Bedtime

 This moose is a bit too squat to even tuck in properly at bedtime.

Traveling Animals - Arlington Office Blocks

Big, chunky blocks of office buildings, lurking outside our hotel window at the edge of Washington DC. This neighborhood is where several funding agencies live, and so a scientist often finds oneself making makes a pilgrimage to there.

Traveling Animals - Bedtime Routines

Got to brush our teeth and do all our other bed-time routines, even when away from home. And even when you're a giant E. coli bacterium.

Traveling Animals - Meeting Room

 Setting up in a meeting room, getting ready to run a training seminar.

Traveling Animals - Buckling In

 Hati buckles in for takeoff on a small regional flight.

Traveling Animals - O'Hare Walkways

 One of the less busy corridors in the terminals of O'Hare Airport.

Traveling Animals - Flight at Dawn

 Preparing to depart as the sun comes up on the Eastern Iowa Airport.

Traveling Animals - Cascades Village

Staying in a little village high in the Cascades Range above Seattle.

Traveling Animals - Standards Meeting

 Hashing through proposals and disagreements at a standards meeting.

Traveling Animals - BU and the Pike

From a high room in Boston University, looking out over other parts of campus and the Massachusetts Turnpike.

Traveling Animals - Hotel Plants

 A long hotel hallway, filled with a surprising number of large live plants.

Traveling Animals - Conference Talk

 At the back of a packed conference hall, listening to a talk.

Traveling Animals - Jersey City

 Looking out across the Hudson River from New York to Jersey City.

Traveling Animals - Highway Time

 Traveling on the highway together.

Traveling Animals - Chip Fab

 Another room, deep yellow as all its lights are kept away from high frequencies that the chips respond to.

Traveling Animals - Chip Fab

 Peering through the windows of a microchip fabrication facility.