Evening Walk

I was out in the cold this evening, getting some exercise. It may not have been bitterly cold by the standards of State College, Pennsylvania, or Amherst, Massachusetts, but it was unusually cold compared to the typical weather in Arlington, Virginia. Coming home, I met a man walking a husky. I peeled off my left glove, and let the husky sniff my hand, which he did; he wasn’t eager to let me get into heavy petting, but my hand made contact with the fur on his head. He seemed built for weather like this, and the man confirmed that he liked it.