Hotel Room Views, Antwerp
Tag: windmill
Irish Wind Farms
Grabbed from the window of a moving bus.
Bird Abattoir, according to some
Tilting at Windmills?
Yucca Valley, California
As we continued our dusk drive back to Palm Springs from Black Rock Canyon we passed by windmills again, bluish and haunting in the cool evening light.
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Blowin’ in the Wind
Wind Farm, Coachella Valley, California
The next morning we took a tour of a wind farm in the Coachella Valley. Our expert guide educated us on the history of wind farming, the Coachella Valley’s natural advantages, how windmills work and the equipment used to convert wind energy into electricity used on Southern California’s grid.
Click any image to see them all enlarged.
Leaving Joshua Tree
After Cap Rock we piled back into the car and you can see the near foreground motion blur in the first photo again. On the way back to Palm Springs we passed through a wind farm with snowy mountain backgrounds.
Mountain Pass
Just back from a week’s vacation in southern California. I’m not sure my touristy snaps are any better, or even different, from anyone else’s but you can look forward, over the next week or so, to my winnowing of hundreds of pictures with you as my audience (if you stay with me…)
