Everything must change, doesn't mean we'll like or dislike it, but none the less things change. Over the last twenty years or so I have gone to a place nearby called Birds Landing. It's definately not a destination for most people, few have ever even heard of it. For western birders, it's almost a Mecca.
It is a mixture of upland grass, freshwater and saltwater marsh, but most important is the solitude. The far off cry of a Buteo Hawk, American Kestral, Mourning Dove, Red Winged Blackbirds, Meadowlarks, Ravens, and of course the migratory waterfowl of the Pacific Flyway. Another thing about Birds Landing is the wind, as relentless as anywhere I have ever been, cool San Francisco Bay breezes blow up through Carquinez Straits, gaining speed accross Grizzly Bay, and into the upland grasslands. Sometimes the winds are cool, other times its like someone running the furnace on high. I'll miss idly watching the "sea of grass" unfettered by the sheer enormity of the mondern wind machines. I liked the old lanscape of leaning barns, long since abondoned homesteads, little country churches. Iget the new reality, green energy, the new machines of course need a new kind of farmer to tend to their maintanence, and the fact that they are engineering marvels.....Everything changes.
Alert************I believe the person who these shoes belongs to was abducted by aliens******
out with the old.......
.......in with the new.
The new lanscape
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Dan,
I definitely agree with Shirley - you're a great photojournalist.
I couldn't help but notice that all the old windmill towers were relatively short out there - proof that, (as you pointed out), adequate wind is almost always available in that area, and the wells were probably relatively shallow. Here in Texas, those old windmill towers are usually much taller, due to lighter, less reliable winds. And, of course, where the winds leave a lot to be desired, and the wells are deep, you can find some very tall windmill towers. Though the air turbines, (windmill farms), are rapidly spreading across some parts of West Texas, (where the wind always blows), here in the central part, where I live, wind turbines will never be very practical, because the old windmill towers were traditionally pretty tall.
Yep, from the looks of that photo, aliens musta beamed 'em up right outta their shoes, in mid-stride.
Tex
I definitely agree with Shirley - you're a great photojournalist.
I couldn't help but notice that all the old windmill towers were relatively short out there - proof that, (as you pointed out), adequate wind is almost always available in that area, and the wells were probably relatively shallow. Here in Texas, those old windmill towers are usually much taller, due to lighter, less reliable winds. And, of course, where the winds leave a lot to be desired, and the wells are deep, you can find some very tall windmill towers. Though the air turbines, (windmill farms), are rapidly spreading across some parts of West Texas, (where the wind always blows), here in the central part, where I live, wind turbines will never be very practical, because the old windmill towers were traditionally pretty tall.
Yep, from the looks of that photo, aliens musta beamed 'em up right outta their shoes, in mid-stride.
Tex
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