David Faucheux in the snow

A snowy street with fair-sized houses, icy sidewalks and sturdy trees. A dark-haired man in his 30s wearing dark glasses and holding up a snowball perhaps three-quarters the size of a basketball. That's the scene in the black-and-white photo David Faucheux emailed of himself in his library internship days in Illinois. If you're sighted, just click here to see David. In the near future I'll post a portrait of David on his Blogger profile page. No sure if the winter scene is the right photo. Let me think about that one.

Memo to David: It'll be winter in the next few months, and you know about both the southern and midwestern varieties. What's winter like for you? A dangerous time with icy sidewalks? What do you think on a day of the kind shown in the picture? And what was Nader the guide dog's 'tude about snow?

Update, 9:34 a.m.: David likes the questions, and the audio will be coming later this week.