Snowing again today, don’t know much, I don’t really want to know. I’m heading to NYC next Monday and Tuesday with my Kickstarter money in the bank, to get a new camera and a couple of new lenses if the money stretches that far. I’ll trade in a few also. I’m also going to have lunch with my agent,  ride in a Horse Carriage with Christina Hansen the Carriage Horse Defender and driver, and see just how dangerous, horrible, polluting, unsafe and cruel the whole thing is.

I’m hoping to persuade Maria to come, I always thought of a carriage ride as too touristy for me, but thinking about it, there is a romance to it that I hope to experience, especially with Maria. I remember that beautiful e-mail I get that talked about the skyscrapers rising out of the mist. I will keep a checklist of all the terrible things that can happen on a ride and see what happens, maybe I’ll get shouted at, that would be a good photo also.

That skyscraper-mist thing would get to me for sure. If we all get mowed down by rampaging trucks in the unsafe-for-animals city it will be a good story, not too shabby if we don’t, too. Christina doesn’t seem to make it as a greedy animal abuser from my time with her, but maybe I’ll get a photo of her clubbing some hapless horse, torturing one or stealing their grain. That would get some shares.

This all would make a wonderful first shot for the new camera, I’m thinking of coming back and hooking Simon up to a cart, like Platero in “Platero And I” and taking people for a ride through my town, I guarantee not a single soul up here would consider work for a working horse to be cruel or unusual punishment, if anybody did, they would be laughed right out of town. Simon would love it as long as there were some carrots involved. Maybe $10 a ride?  Make some good money too, hmmm….