Mysore

Bengaluru airport

The shala

For Marc!

lunch spot

thali

Hong Kong: walk-up café

Termini café in Causeway Bay

Thick buttered toast with condensed milk; longan green tea

The view

Balcony from below

Coffee with lovely Ma!

Winter Break: Italy

we stayed in this hamlet near the Piccole Dolomiti

hiking

this place had awesome goulash, polenta, and homemade pasta

Rovereto

winery

nipota

Marc's sister, Denise, and baby Rachele

Marc's kitty voice was mainly computer sounds, mine was modeled on Teen Girl Squad.

Verona

Roman arena

statue of Juliet

heads orthogonal to bodies

turban

Christmas installation

golden virgin display case

looking for the lunch spot

this one!

amazing garden

Marc in the labyrinth

near Castelvecchio

shaped and fried to order

Castelvecchio collection

rolled eyes, silk slippers; gaping maw of dragon and helmet

succulent leaves

sweet birdie

if Last Year at Marienbad were a 15th-century devotional painting

stray rock

puppet strings, flaming cross, curious friend

Christmas tea party

Some colleagues and I threw a Christmas party for our students.