Cats and Rain and Mud

It is Winter now, and that means that we see less of something quite interesting: people out walking with their cats. It may be hard to believe, but the cats in this city actually walk with their owners when they are out! And they don't have leashes either. Even out in public along the busy Riverwalk area people would be out with a cat trailing behind. Even more amazing would be the people out with a cat AND a dog. The dog would be leashed however. Now that the winter has arrived, we won't be seeing the cats so much.

And speaking of Winter, it has arrived in all its muddy glory. We were told there were essentially three seasons here: Summer, Winter, and Muddy. We were hoping it wasn't true. So far it has proven to be so, even though we had some snow several days ago which stayed. That gave us hope. Then it melted, and the falling snow increasingly has turned into rain/sleet. It is also very windy, but so far the temperature hasn't been unbearable.