texting

So we have some Wisconsin State Legislators who this week introduced a bill that will ban YOUNG driver from texting while driving. This despite the fact that their already a bill working its way through the State Senate that would ban ALL drivers from texting.

The second on banning all makes a lot more sense. But it will only make sense if it written in a broad enough language that regulators can work with it in real life. Can not be written in such a way that says has words like cell phones ect ect. They need to be general enough so that whatever someone wants to call them they are the same thing, No e mailing no texting and whatevering. You need to be driving not writing or calling. Reading email or texts. If you have to have that kind of constant contact then you need to be rich enough to hire a driver or work out of your office or pull off the road.

I am enough of a libertarian that if you want to kill yourself go ahead and do it but do not drive in such a way that will kill me or others with your poor judgment.

Life After

I am having way to much time to think. Maybe the word is to fantasize. Do I really want to go back to work at SAM's Club when this leg is done or do I want to.

1) Do a photo seres on 27th St. from north to south.

2) A series od photos about Hwy 41 again from north to south.

3) Purchasing a tent and spend several months in Texas photographing the Leather Neck Turtle. The only sea turtle that breeds in the daylight.

4) Drive to Alaska in the "early" spring, mid April and staying for two to three months. The great wildflowers of spring, all the new calfs and new born brown and black bears. The Eagles. Staying in State campgrounds.

5) Spend two long weeks in March photographing the migration of the Cranes and following them to a nesting spot on Wisconsin.

6) In my spare time going to art fairs and selling my photos as well as making three small books one on 27th St. one on Hwy. 41 and finally a third on the people of Milwaukee

just some wild thoughts

A Street North to South

Well now that I lived through the replacement of my left knee I have been considering a photo project. I am thinking of photographing 27th st from the Ozaukee County line to the Racine County line. No more than a dozen pictures to tell the whole story. Their may be the problem. I already have two photos that need to be in it. The first of course is Leon's . What defines Franklin better than Menards Walmart or some other strip store. "One the Border" of course.

Maybe 27th st. could be defined by it's fast food restaurants. That is sort of a sad thought. Guess I will just have to wait until I can drive again and start to look

This would just be the start for a larger project and that is Hwy. 41 from upper Michigan to the end of the road in Ill. Maybe I could do a general study and one that would focus restaurants.