Enter the Great Plains and Windmill Building
Posted by Teddy Osuch on June 24, 2012
18APR2012 – So from Durango, it’s east to southwest Kansas. Bud told me to look up Mark Miller in Pagosa Springs so I stop there at his fly fishing shop but no one is home. The ride is beautiful anyway so I ride on to La Junta and now I’m on the Great Plains on a heading to southwestern Kansas. Everything gradually starts to look more desperate. The region has lots of evidence of a disappearing rural culture.
On the way from La Junta to Dodge City, I came across a new windmill farm under construction. I took these pictures for Mary Ida.
Teddy on the Go 
deweycrain said
Have you seen the Calatrava designed art museum on Lake Michigan, off the Milwaukee coastline? It looks like he designed these windmills as well. The chicken or the egg?
I see, again, you’re invoking the patron saint of cycle travelers and fighting windmills, St. Mary Ida of Bonadeo. Must be powerful juju 😉
We’ve been fighting fires ourselves, here in our neck of the woods — as well as running marathon garache (that’s how my old Evanston classmates say ‘garage’ in Chicagoese) sales — where all the shit stuff is flying off the tables, while the good stuff stays behind 😉 Oi vey – Life in the southwest……
PS Great pics, save for the Calatrava windmills (and the color) these could have been taken during the dustbowl.
Teddy Osuch said
Thank you…
Haven’t seen the Calatrava. Sounds like I should go.
Mary Ida loves windmills so I take pictures for her when I find them. There are more out there than I thought there would be. Now I only photograph the ones that have something out of the ordinary.
Garage sales are emotional events. Cheap stuff sells though, yes? People go to garage sales to buy cheap stuff.
karenckc said
The Milwaukee Art Museum needs to be seen in action. We hung around on a Saturday afternoon and finally the “wings” began flapping, then they began rippling (like a flounders fins). We loved it. The museum also has a large Choululy (sp) glass piece which I like.
karenckc` said
You must see the Milwaukee Art Museum in action. Not only does it flap it’ “wings” but they articulate like a flounder’s fins.
If you’re into glass, as I am, there is a Choululi (sp?) as part of their permanent collection
karenckc said
Ted, I really liked one of your photos that you said you took for Mary Ida, maybe you know which one… Batavia, IL on the Fox River is the “Wind Energy City”. A park along the river has a collection of windmills on display.
karenckc said
Garage sales free up space. Space makes way for new creativity. Have a garage sale…start a new project.
deweycrain said
Yesh, I wish we’d been able to see the Calatrava in action 😉 Sounds super cool.
Re the cheap and dear at garage sales….. Well everything is ‘cheap, ’cause you want to get rid of it…. move it. My point was —- the stuff that’s really prosaic, dull, ordinary goes quickly, while the stuff that you personally think is more desirable just hangs around. Yes, it’s all subjective — one man’s treasure, another’s dross etc etc 😉