My World changes

I may have posted a version of this photo back when I took it about a year and a half ago. We had been camping at Maryhill State Park, down on the Columbia River south of Goldendale, Washington. The bare hills, an occasional cow and a power line. But what is that headed up the road? Whatever it is, it's really really long. Check out the size of it in relation to the pilot car just behind it.

The hills are no longer quite so bare. (This view is from the highway a couple of miles above the park, looking south instead of north.) It catches a few of the wind machines that now power up up there in the winds.

Local opposition to new wind farms in some areas is strong. You can see that it definitely does change the landscape. I can see the point--NIMBY--but I can see the beauty in the lines of these huge constructions as well, and the sheer immensity of them is impressive.

Powerful silhouettes.

Queued up straight...

in my World Tuesday (and any day.)

I found this Washington state blogger who had a great informative post about the wind machines the other day. He mentions the experimental wind machines in the hills near this area some years ago. Those machines have long been dismantled, but the experiment must have been viewed to be successful--witness the area today. Have a look at his blog and post here.