My friend the fiddle player at Bart had gone missing….. since Monday I have not seen him…..My thinking was that maybe he had taken his show on the road….. after a few days I sort of worried and missed the sound of his fiddle in the morning… Well today as I rode the escalator up from the trains I could hear a familiar sound…. the sound of a fiddle playing the song Greensleeves an old English folk song from around the 16th century… but for me it was good to hear the music again….

Do you ever wonder where you where on a particular day….. sometimes something happens and you suddenly know exactly where you were….and for me photography is just a world of memories……… some good, some bad…….. there is a word that sometimes describe how one feels about things…..how I feel about things…… the word is “SAUDADE”…..take the time to look it up…… and by the way I know right where I was at sundown 2 years ago today……  “SAUDADE”  I have never found a better word then this to say how I feel today…..  so you say what’s the story…. well been out shooting and was heading back….  I looked up and this what I saw…. after shooting I only had one photo left on my card…. and the wrong lens on the camera… but I knew that if I did not just take the shot it would be gone…. so with a 18/35 mm lens I took the shot…..not bad as a memory of that day…… no did not know the folks on the hill….but they did come down and I show them the photo and said if you like it I can send it to you….. a few weeks later they sent me an email…….and I sent them the photo……they loved it…. yep not a bad day 2 years ago today…. my life was just about perfect…..

I have been using mass transit… been waiting a real long time to get back my Smart Car…. in the mean time friends have let me use some of their cars…. but you can’t expect them to do this for ever….. but I have had to learn to ride bart…. and that is a learning experience… so many people all running around… all in a hurry to get somewhere… but the other night I was running late night… and when I got off of Bart and the few folks left…. it got ever so quiet… and I was the only one there……. yep just me and my bike…. it’s just a Black & White world tonight…… but a color one will soon be here….

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Each morning I arrive at the SF bart station…. and every morning there is the man playing the fiddle…. and each day lots of folks just walk on by…. as I have done on many occasions…..  but today I stopped and listen for a few moments…. well I dug into my pocket and give some change that I had…… it was well worth it….. to hear real music played by a live person…… tomorrow I will try to stop and listen again…..

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Well this morning I was thinking it’s raining and looks like I’m going to get a little wet….. but suddenly…. it stopped… here is a snap from the bart station…

Sometimes its good to take sometime for yourself…. and of course have a camera with you… So I’m walking up this road…. and I said….. wow it’s so pretty….