Victoria, B.C.

My camera decided to quit when I arrived in Victoria to cover the annual meeting of the Canadian Pediatric Society. So I have no Victoria gargoyles to show you. But I do have this great commerical for Lotto 6/49 from the B.C. Lottery Corporation. The music is great and I'm not sure who/what I'm more entranced by - the leaping cats or the woman's bowl of Froot Loops:

St. Terry of Assisi

Ah, Terry is tired tonight. I am on a committee that reviews animal research that's done at one of the teaching hospitals. I am tired because tonight I read all 17 new research proposals we'll be discussing at next week's meeting. It's mostly mice and rats that are involved, but they have to have adequate anesthesia and analgesia too.
I just got home and it's late and I'm tired and Euripides wants to play and his claws need trimming so when he paws at me to be picked up, he really scratches. And then I bark at him.
I gave most of my energy tonight to little mice and rats, and now I am barking at my cat. Not so saintly...

Oh, the picture. It's the neon sign for a pet supply store in my neighbourhood. I also shoot clever neon signs. Remind me to tell you someday the hilarious story about how I looked all over San Francisco for a neon penny loafer.

Serenity

I haven't posted for a few days. I'm tired of taking pictures of the hole in the ground at the end of the street. I'll return to that when there's something more to show.
I'm also having some trouble with post-holiday re-entry to real life. So I thought I'd post this picture I took last summer of Kali, my friend Denyse's cat, meditating before one of the several shrines Denyse has in her apartment in Montreal. She looked so ... meditative and serene and placid...

...until she decided to jump up and check out the Buddha and the bamboo more closely.