Picture Notes

I’m not sure why I like giant fiberglass farm animals, except they are fun. Here is another view of a Holstein Cow from North Dakota, billed as the largest cow in the world, photographed with an iphone. It’s so big they had to wire it to the ground. I posted the other end of it a few days ago. It would be a pretty funny dinosaur movie, like the ones where people walk with the dinosaurs, if they included one or two large cows among the T.Rex or other extinct Raptors. There’s a site dedicated to movie mistakes. I don’t “get” many of the mistakes they write about. These are fiction films, for the most part (art), and how can there be mistakes in fiction films except for mistakes in continuity which are really technical production errors (microphones in the shot, errant shadows and things changing without a visual or audio explanation.) I wonder how people who track these fiction film errors do on the metro train when the conductor announces the wrong station.

I just reread my last post about the gas prices and I’m not so sure there are any smart people left in America who want to make a difference, it seems like corporations which serve their own self interest control everything, even the government. There may be a few companies trying to make a difference but the captains of industry have a more compelling argument (ie. more cash) for hiring and keeping really smart people.

I had this great idea when I was pumping gas at $4.13 a gallon for the third time in one day. Let’s let the wind power everything. We have lots of wind in this country and we could put these electric generating windmills in Washington, DC and power the area easily, although most of the wind here is hot it probably doesn’t matter.

I had this other thought when I was driving down I-94 in North Dakota and into Wisconsin and Missouri, that there are too many semi trucks on the road now. I wonder how long it will be before the trucks take over the interstate and the automobiles have to use the small roads.

I’d like to see gas go to $13.00 per gallon as it is in England. Once the price of using our cars starts really hurting us we will change everything and become independent of foreign oil. I wonder how the oil companies own the oil. It seems that oil should be part of the common trust, like water, air and ocean fish.

I’m back at work and thought I’d write next on infidelity and how it effects attitudes in the office.

I’m back in Washington, DC after 12 days and this was one of the first photographs I shot when I left. Eventually the GPS did find Satellites but this was used very little. I found that I like the open Interstate highway and not the blue, red, orange or black highways. I’ll be posting photographs from the trip over the next few weeks.

I learned that I like the Prairie and the Great Plains and wonder why anyone would leave that area if they could stay. I like this area as well but it’s exhilarating to look out and see nothing but grass and sky for miles and miles - just green and blue and the wind is blowing, creating and moving patterns through the grass. You can see trouble coming a long way off. America is a large country. The new states that I visited: Wisconsin, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana. I also did google maps and at one point it read: “turn on to route I-90 and drive 1083 miles through Missouri, South Dakota, Wyoming and Montana. I thought that was encouraging.