Life Continues on Elmwood Avenue

How You Know the Weather is Warming Up in Buffalo: The woman who walks on Elmwood Avenue mainly between Bryant Street and Summer Street, yelling at the law offices located between the Epilepsy Association and the music store from across the street near the Wilson Farms parking lot, is in mid-season form.
But she showed a different side to Walker Evans and me Friday afternoon, as I took the pup on a long walk, much of it on Elmwood Avenue. The woman was in mid-rant as we approached her, but she stopped, looked at Walker, lowered her voice, smiled and said, "Hello there, pup. How are you doing? Are you a good boy today?" As Walker wagged his tail back, she looked at me, smiled again, and then picked up her rant from where she left off a moment ago.