Windfarm

[Bok_Tukalo]

[suninvited]

1. Pretty shot

where I live we have tons of these, which is fitting; the wind never stops blowing here.

[Bok_Tukalo]

4. That was near Weatherford Oklahoma

I like that farm has a double meaning.

[yellowdogintexas]

12. Hey where have you been? Have not seen you here for a LONG time.

:hi:

[Bok_Tukalo]

15. Here and there

Good to see you again.

Did you enjoy the Texas Two-Step primary?

[yellowdogintexas]

16. yes I did. I enjoyed standing in line for 45 minutes to just vote. I enjoyed the huge

crowd that came back for the precinct caucuses and I was overwhelmed at the Senatorial District Convention. We usually have that in a high school auditorium and we ended up at Will Rogers Coliseum at the very last minute, with rodeo dust on the floor because there was a horse event coming in.

The excitement was very invigorating.

[Bok_Tukalo]

18. District Convention

Ours was originally at a high school but was changed to the Grapevine Convention Center.

It was a complete cluster. Hopefully, the caucus is a thing of the past now.

[yellowdogintexas]

19. I heard all about that one, from a good friend at church. He was telling us that

normally they can hold some of these meetings in a Denny's (he is prone to sarcasm) but his tale of the day was pretty funny.

District 10 was pretty crazy but not in the same way as the Grapevine one. Mostly just not well organized re: getting credentialing finished. According to my friend, it went deeper than that in Grapevine.

Edited to add: it was worth it to see some life in the Democrats around the state, though. This was the story everywhere

[Orsino]

2. Ah. My wife's new nickname for me.

Purty.

[Parche]

3. Thats Where You Grow Wind

:woohoo: :hi:

[Rambis]

5. Workin on a wind farm

Trying to raise some hard love
Getting out my pitch fork
Poking your hay

Scratching in your hen house
Sniffing at your feedbag
Slipping out your back door
Leaving my spray

Wind farm woman, I'm gonna mow you down
Wind farm woman, I'll rake and hoe you down
Wind farm woman, don't you see my silo rising high?

Working on a wind farm
Hosing down your barn door
Bothering you livestock
They know what I need

Working up a hot sweat
Crouching in your pea patch
Plowing through your bean field
Planting my seed

Wind farm woman, I'll be your hired hand
Wind farm woman, I'll let my offer stand
Wind farm woman, don't you hear my tractor rumbling by?

Working on a wind farm
Trying to raise some hard love
Getting out my pitch fork
Poking your hay

[bridgit]

6. I like it!!

[NV Whino]

25. Is that the Chardonnay golf course

or whatever they are calling it now?

[Rhythm]

7. The power company here has a windfarm over Mt. Storm

over 100 turbines are going to string along the top edge of the ridge there...

The view was spectacular before this... will be even better now, imho.

[suninvited]

8. I think they are pretty, too

something so powerful, yet peaceful about them.

[hedgehog]

9. Why are all wind turbines off-white or white? My sister suggested

painting them to liven up the landscape.

[suninvited]

10. Green would be nice

to symbolize green energy.

[lost-in-nj]

11. Atlantic City

has a wind farm






http://www.njwind.com/project.html



:hi:



lost

[yellowdogintexas]

13. have you ever seen those propellors up close? They are HUMONGOUS!

I see them occasionally on I 20 in FW heading west toward I would assume the windy western plains. I agree they are kind of pretty.

Now if they were in Amarillo, someone would paint them and then they would be come a roadside attraction such as this:
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2220

[Bok_Tukalo]

14. Went to the Cadillac Ranch too

[yellowdogintexas]

17. nice photo, there. I have some of my daughter and husband exploring them when

she was about 6 or 7 years old..somewhere. My scanner and computer are currently on the outs, so I can't scan anything.

[av8rdave]

20. I was on a ride out to Big Bend some years ago and we passed near a bunch of those

Their size is mind boggling. I think I remember someone telling me once that each of those blades is 100'

[yellowdogintexas]

21. they require a very very long flatbed truck, let me tell you. nt

[av8rdave]

22. I can only imagine what it takes to deliver and assemble one of those things!

[yellowdogintexas]

26. one blade per truck nt

[Lethe]

23. that dude is a trip

i hear he bought an entire office building because he wanted to paint the roof like a pool table. (he looked down on it from his office window)

also - he was responsible for this weird sign art a few years ago. He had thousands of road-type signs that had obnoxious one-liners on them like "fat guys need love too", etc. You just called and they would bring it out to your house for free. A ton of people in Amarillo had them.

[SammyWinstonJack]

24. very cool pic!