This wind farm was amazing. I don’t know why they had it running though, it was really windy that day anyway and I wouldn’t have thought they needed to make any more.
Where wind comes from
Starfish hill
We drove down to Cape Jervis today, and saw these wind farms. It was a mixed day – windy and cloudy with lightning but with some nice moments of sun. The turbines were amazing, huge and clean white, and nearly silent. I thought this scene was very peaceful.
Butcher & sons
This old butcher in Terowie, a near-ghost town, interested me. In a local history museum I saw a photo of the original town butcher, also called Mahoneys so the store has obviously been in the family a long time – it was built in the late 1800’s! It must have been an important part of the community at the time, and it is interesting that it’s closed now. I wonder if the Mahoney sons’ sons just weren’t interested in being butchers, or maybe it became too hard to make a living as people left the town looking for work in other places.
There was so much to look at – inside the store, this great old formica table with chrome railings – I bet someone would pay a fair bit to include that with their retro decor.
I was careful to get the reflections in the window as visible as possible, to add to the sense of place. I like the faded plastic fruit and meat and dusty take-away cups in the front counter for some reason.
Looking at closed up old shops like this, I get an almost overpowering urge to get in somehow and explore and take photos!
Fern shadows
