We drove past the Benton County Wind Farm on the way home. Amidst the corn and bean fields were an assortment of enormous windmills, generating electricity. They moved in eerie, synchronized motion.
One was relatively near the main road, so we stopped to take an impromptu tour. Access was by a 1/4 mile long gravel road, which we hiked.
You could hear the enormous blades slicing through the air.
As far as the eye can see, more windmills.
You can't appreciate the scale until you are underneath one. From a distance, or from a photograph, you don't realize just how massive these generators are.
The view from the base. As you get closer, the whoosh of the blades is accompanied by the hum of the generator. It sounds ... electric.
As a point of reference, John, Carolyn, and Emmalee, at the base of one of them.
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