Title
Mr. Jake Bojangles
Artist
John Glass
Medium
Photograph
Description
I had gone down to the lake to try and catch a sunset across the water... I was to late by about 5 minutes... There were several fishing along the boardwalk.. Both fish and crabs were the targets...
Down at the far end of the walk sat a man. I learned soon that his name was Jake. The oddity with Jake was that the rod that sat beside him was not rigged for fishing.. Sitting besides him on the bench was a small CD Player. The dry raspy wailing voice of Janice Joplin singing her and I got the impression his favorites. He seem to be just sitting enjoying her ballads and enjoying the coolness that was starting to creep in as the sun set.
I walked to within 20 feet or so away from him and snapped a shot of a private fishing boat coming in to the public ramp...
"You missed it by about 5 minutes."
We talked for a while, he telling me that the fish just weren't biting, but didn't want to waste a good sunset. Asking me about my camera and that he had seen me there before. I gave him one of my cards explaining my love for sunrises and sunsets and showed him a few that were within the innards of the camera...
He shared a picture of a shot his wife had made just last week on the eastern coast of Florida just last week while waiting to get out of there before Hurricane Mathew reached there...
It was a beautiful shot with a mass of Seagulls right at the edge of the surf and the massive thunderheads to east of the storm in the distance.
I expressed my relief that it had gone up the east coast and not made it into the Gulf Coast.. He agreed, but said he could just imagine what they were going through... "over there"... I agreed... We sat and listened to Joplin sing one last song Mr. Bojangels and I looked and noticed he was singing it also, with tear in his eye.
After a couple minutes past the song, we shook hands and agreed we would see each other again there on the boardwalk along our lake in Lake Charles...
Nice Man... I didn't get his last name.... But Mr. Bojangles seemed to fit right.
Good New Friend....
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October 11th, 2016
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