I'm kind of mad at myself for not buying a house that has a pool in the back yard. If I had a pool I'd warm it up to bath water temperatures and be in it every day the sun is out. It feels like everyone around here has a pool and I took some solace in the fact that none of my backyard neighbors have a pool either, so I wasn't directly hearing anyone's pleasure, but now the backyard of the neighbor directly behind me is in the process of getting a pool. If they get a jacuzzi too it might do me in. sniff sniff sniff
Even the deer that skip down the side of our yard every night have been mocking me by sashaying directly across the yard ten feet away from me sitting at my kitchen table. And then today, one of them was lying in front of our house dead on the side of the road. The strange thing is that one of it's legs is completely gone. I called the police who said they would check it out and probably remove it tomorrow. Then I realized that whenever a deer was hit back in Stepford the cops would come and shoot it in the head twice just to make sure it wasn't lying there suffering. I guess they don't do that here in new town. No bullet holes in his head, but he is most definitely dead. You can see it in his eyes. I hope he didn't suffer. I'm quite sure I heard him get hit last night. I was sitting here watching television with the family when I heard a loud bump sound from outside. It wasn't followed by a crash or anything, and I figured that it was going to end up being a mystery sound. Until I looked right out of the driveway this morning.
I've been driving myself crazy (and YES I overthink things) trying to figure out what direction I am going to go with the utopia photo project. My latest thoughts will be to concentrate on utopia being an ex-industrial town. But I am still going to photograph everything and everyone else I can along the way. I feel like I need to talk to some old timers and hear stories. I think I am going to ask the newstand dude to introduce me to some of the people he knows. It's so tempting to make a list of all the little spots I have seen before and thought "I should photograph that" I think I will.
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