tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3392016803952910176.post3173349333579305133..comments2023-10-11T03:52:51.228-04:00Comments on Life, On A Bridged: Sagamore Bridge, Bourne Bridge and Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge, Cape Cod, MATipahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07828719420913764824noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3392016803952910176.post-71539867521877287412014-03-20T07:37:10.715-04:002014-03-20T07:37:10.715-04:00Like you, I love being near the wind farms. I used...Like you, I love being near the wind farms. I used to travel through Pacheco Pass every couple of weeks, and I wanted, each time, to just stop the car, wander through the fields. They had these regular turbines, and also some vertical egg-beater turbines. It just seemed a welcoming place of peace and hope. I know that they are dangerous to birds.<br /><br />I'm probably heading down to the new Q Bridge in New Haven soon to see how the construction is coming along. They have a couple turbines next to the bridge; hoping they have more, now.Tipahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07828719420913764824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3392016803952910176.post-23303377427491826822014-03-20T06:46:45.572-04:002014-03-20T06:46:45.572-04:00Welcome back! Wonderful pictures. Also a charming,...Welcome back! Wonderful pictures. Also a charming, wistful song. <br /><br />Wind farms are so bizarrely controversial. Like you, I've loved them since I saw my firs turbine, so long ago I can't remember exactly where but somewhere in Spain, where they have become an inseparable part of the landscape, like the huge Osborne Sherry hoardings in the shape of black fighting bulls that so terrified me on my trips there as a child in the 1960s. In the 1990s Spain decided to ban all roadside advertizing but there was such an outcry over the loss of these bulls that they were allowed to stay, now painted black all over, because, as Wikipedia has it, they had become "a part of the landscape and have "aesthetic or cultural significance" ".<br /><br />Wind farms are like that - put there by humans for a pragmatic purpose but falling magnificently into the landscape, adding to the natural grandeur rather than detracting from it. When we travel through the Spanish hills and plains we like to picnic beside the turbines, listening to the great, thrumming sounds and watching the intricate dance of the blades. Windmill-haters say "well, you might like them when they're on someone else's land but you wouldn't want one in your back garden, would you?". Well, yes, I would, although it wouldn't be the same without fifty more alongside.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.com