Accordion and Trumpet

 

 

I heard some amazing music outside of my apartment yesterday on my walk home and I decided to grab my camera and see if I could record the musicians. I ended up finding these too men and they let me take a little video. Trumpet and accordion have to be two of my favorite instruments. I don't think they were asking for any money either, just walking the streets playing music for everyone.
For some reason I am not able to upload the video though......what a shame.
Last night I went out to see the festival of lights in Berlin, which goes on until Saturday. Famous buildings all over east and west berlin are illuminated with beautiful light shows until midnight. Really an awesome thing to see. It is a really special way to cheer up the nights as they start to get shorter and ease the oncoming of fall.

 

 

It may be a little difficult to tell from my photo, but the one above is a memorial outside Humboldt University to commemorate the lost knowledge of the approximately 20,000 books burned by the Nazis here on  May 10, 1933. I thought the image of empty bookshelves was very powerful.