The Blind Couple of Broadway

6 x 5 oil on canvas
2003

Back when I was a law librarian in downtown Oakland
 I rode the number 11 bus home every evening.
More often than not, this couple would ride that same bus,
 and every time they climbed aboard I thought they were
 a marvelous subject.

One day, long after I no longer rode the number 11,
 I was on Broadway with camera in hand and there
they were on the other side of 12th St. waiting for the light.

I sold this painting in 2004 to a nice woman from Berkeley.