Top of Texas Gazette: Old Tree in Sepia

August 11, 2008

South of Miami, Texas.

Barb said...: looks cool in sepia, sort of fits the image. There used to be a few windmills around here like that. Mostly parked out in cow pastures to provide electricity to water well pumps. I noticed just recently that the last one I was aware of was gone this past spring. Kids Colleen's age won't even know what they are.; August 11, 2008 at 4:17 PM
Mike said...: That's on my pal's dad's leased place and he wanted a photo of it. He told me it was over a hundred years old.

I like that place; there's that old truck I took some photos of (and there's another pic of this tree taken back during the winter w/out any leaves on it) as well as a couple other old vehicles, plus some old farm equipment. There's also the ruins of the original homestead there, and I need to take some photos of it.

That's a brand new unit on top; you just can't tell it from this perspective.

It's also a metal structure, and there's not many functioning wooden ones left. (there's a pic of one in here I took at the Roberts Co. Museum) There's one just outside of town, but it's nearly in the farmer's front yard and I really want to take some photos of it with the sun rising behind it, but I'm not for sure they'd like me out there at six a.m. I've been meaning to ask them, though, hoping they might let me for a dozen donuts for breakfast!; August 11, 2008 at 5:16 PM