black friend

Are you down in the dumps over this dreary weather?  Or are you under the weather and it's getting you down in the dreary dumps?  What better antidote to dreary weather-based maladies than a little black friend on your duvet watching you try to sleep?  With a little white chest patch and the face that honesty built, this guy - appropriately name "Blacky" by Caroline's parents - is sure to cure what ails ya.

Love you guys - hang in there.

To A Cat

Stately, kindly, lordly friend,

Condescend

Here to sit by me, and turn

Glorious eyes that smile and burn,

Golden eyes, love’s lustrous meed,

On the golden page I read.

All your wondrous wealth of hair,

Dark and fair,

Silken shaggy, soft and bright

As the clouds and beams of night,

Pays my reverent hand’s caress

Back with friendlier gentleness.

Dogs may fawn on all and some

  As they come;

You, a friend of loftier mind,

Answer friends alone in kind. 

Just your foot upon my hand

Softly bids it understand.  

-Algernon Charles Swinburne

Thanks, yet again, for the wonderful picture Margaret!