December 2011

POTD: Distant Friends

Distant Friends
Budapest, Hungary
2011

A view through the Fisherman’s Bastion. I think it’s funny how this structure is described in some of the travel books. It is a striking structure but they talk about it almost as if it were sort of a fake Disneyland kind of thing because it was only built a mere 110-120 years ago instead of in the medieval age whose architecture it characterizes. I hope I get more respect than that when I’m 110 but I probably won’t–my architecture is no where near this impressive.

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POTD: Mr. Bojangles

Mr. Bojangles
Budapest, Hungary
2011

I didn’t see this guy dance a lick but he and his dog brought the song Mr. Bojangles to mind. Jerry Jeff Walker wrote the song and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band had the most popular recording of it, but my favorite version is by David Bromberg. Most of the song versions don’t mention the name of the dog but I believe it is Teddy. Here’s to Josie, Buddha and all the other Teddys out there.

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