Hello Kitty!

It was a Grey Day yesterday as I headed downtown.....

Buckingham Fountain yesterday! This is my kind of weather!!

While waiting on the platform for my train, I noticed a pullout from a child's coloring book lying on the sidewalk down below. A black and white illustration of a cat scribbled with green, blue, and pink crayon.

She sure looked happy. Smiling, with flowers in her hat and hearts on her dress.

Even though trampled and worn, it was still an unexpected piece of art that I was DETERMINED to get! I had to have her!

But I would've had to walk all the way off and around the platform, missing my train which was on its way. So I just looked at her one more time before boarding, transferring all of my craziness onto that whimsical kitten!

Please, God, let me have it, I thought to myself. Let it still be there I when I get back. Please, please, please let me have it. I can't lose this too. I need it. Please!

Much of my time was spent worrying about that cat art! Visions of it blowing onto the street and getting run over, soaking in a rain puddle, or simply picked up and discarded. Lost forever.

Four hours later, I'd gotten off the train back where I started. Down and around the ramp I dashed.

Would it still be there for me? I looked under nearby cars, to no avail, in case the wind moved it. The rain held off so it couldn't have gotten wet. And there in the distance....on the sidewalk just where I had first found it, she was waiting for me!

I gingerly picked her up and sighed. She was mine. Mine. All mine! And I took her home.....