Month: June 2024

Noon, 93° and I look up.

She’s standing there pretty much out of nowhere and was not there 3 seconds before.

A block long strip of fenced in tennis courts on the left and street parking on the right.  I managed to snap this.  Louis always likes to cross right here at an odd angle so I had to look away for a second and when I looked back she was gone.

She was wearing a heavy and thick, black coat that had a high collar over top a thick, black skirt with tall boots.  She had long, wavy brown hair with a slight dark purple tint.  She didn’t turn around and was walking deliberately and slowly, very, away from me and the dog.

Right after we cross there’s a spot the dog likes to stop and sniff.  So I looked all around, there was no place for her to have disappeared.  The few reasonably close parked cars were empty and even if she scaled the 20′ high fence in 4 seconds that would’ve put her in the middle of tennis courts and easily noticeable.

I have no idea where she went. I have no idea why only 1 leg.  It did not occur to me until this morning that maybe she went up.  Into the trees.  I never looked.