My girlfriend, Bonnie, is a huge Janis Joplin fan. As such, we celebrate her birthday, January 19th, every year. We were joined by a few friends at a new bar in Missoula called James Bar. It’s a new place with an interesting atmosphere. If you haven’t been there before, it’s next to Al and Vic’s place around here:

Although it isn’t the greatest bar in the world from my experience, they have a huge picture of Janis Joplin up on the wall of the bar so it was a suitable place for celebrating Janis Joplins birthday. However, an unexpected visitor became visible when taking a picture of my girlfriend and a couple of her friends in front of the picture on the wall. Here’s the part of the image with Janis:

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However, an image was caught that did not exist on any other shots that were taken in front of Janis that night. Although some might attribute it to a lens flare or a piece of dust, I think that the humanistic, feminine qualities of the image are indicative of the spirit of Janis helping us celebrate her 65th birthday:

Keep in mind, this is untouched. There was no gloss over the photo of her on the wall. We also took a second photo right afterwards in which the image did not appear.

I guess its up to you decide.

Happy birthday Janis Joplin. Happy birthday.

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