The skyline is changing in our area. What is this new “creature” springing up in our landscape? Actually, they aren’t really new, but the modern generation of them is certainly beefier. Dwarfing its predecessor’s romantic wooden structure and wide, flat blades, these critters stand on stacked steel cylinders the diameter of my dining room, each section almost a block long. The long, narrow blades, which seem tiny when viewed from a distance, are every bit as long as one of the tower sections. I thought it awe-inspiring to pass a long truck hauling one of these parts on the freeway, but seeing them come down the main street of our little town this summer was even more incredible. Nothing prepares you for the size as it stretches across an intersection and halfway down the block, towering above your head even though it is on its side.
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