CIMG4615 In a winter jacket, walking down the street

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In a winter jacket, walking down the streetCIMG4615 In a winter jacket, walking down the street

CIMG4615 In a winter jacket, walking down the street

CIMG4615 In a winter jacket, walking down the street

CIMG4615 E going for a walk with me in a puffy jacket and mittens, seeing snow for the first time — though it’s only a light dusting. In Texas, it may be years until she gets to see even this much again.

It was perhaps during this walk that E stopped near a drainage opening under the sidewalk — the kind where the road slopes away under the sidewalk, revealing an opening into some kind of drainage canal — crouched down and called: “Cat! Cat!” I realized that she was remembering seeing a cat go into a similar drainage canal on one of our previous walks. Naturally, no cat answered her call. So she turned to me and said: “Cat is sleeping.”

January 2007, Austin, Texas