Country Living

One of my favorite things about living "down south" is our proximity to wind farms. 

When we first moved here we really enjoyed driving to the one about 10 miles east of our house ... which we can see in the distance from the main street near our home.  It was still in the process of being finished and every once in a while we'd see the large flatbed trucks delivering the big pieces.  How big?  Pieces so large they required not only a "wide load" sign on the back of the truck, but an escort by trucks with flashing lights letting drivers in the opposite lanes of traffic know to pull over to the side of the road.  That big.

In the last few years more and more of these wind farms have been approved, one along the stretch of highway we take to travel back to the Chicago area and another new one just cropped up this year a bit north west of our house.

Looking at these giants up close never gets old to me!