The Story of the Poor Goldsmith

I haven't  blogged in a long time.  April 2017 was my last entry. I have been posting my photography on Flickr and my bicycle journaling has been on the Travel Life section of Crazyguyonabike. On both these sites I have contacts, readers, viewers. This poor little blog does not. Therefore I soon stopped posting here.

But ... sometimes I have something that is neither appropriate for Flickr not does it have anything to do with bicycling, and I feel like posting it anyway. So here I am today with a little story and a picture. Just for me and the odd errant reader.

This is a shot from my walk in downtown Munich this morning. When I got home and looked at it, I wondered what I had captured. It looked to me like this humble figure with his hat in his hand might be a pilgrim, or perhaps a monk - but I was wrong.

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