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Margaret Sturgess
{K:49403} 11/14/2004
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How funny, Over here it is known that garden gnomes get stolen, never understood why - but there you are, perhaps this is the equivalent to a gnome, and someone took it from a garden - and released into the wild heheheheheh
Margaret
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Tony Diana
{K:13396} 11/13/2004
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Jugó bien con la luz, saludos
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Rebecca Raybon
{K:26654} 11/13/2004
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Nice textures in this. I can't imagine why it would be in the woods. I'd have it in a flower garden as an ornament.
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Del Metheny
{K:25617} 11/13/2004
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Interesting, I really never knew that style windmill was used as a power souce. I always associated them with water. Of course Kansas was almost totally powered by wind even in my youth, for water, electricity, but seldom just for power. Del.
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Gabrielle Willson
{K:7978} 11/13/2004
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I sounded pretty clever there didnt I?
Here is the source
http://servercc.oakton.edu/~wittman/mills/history.htm
I am used to seeing windmills NOT adjacent to water you see. In Holland it was all about drainage.
Some windmills have been converted to very individual type homes in the UK.
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Gabrielle Willson
{K:7978} 11/13/2004
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Maybe it is an English windmill?
The windmill was designed to replace animal power in the grinding of grain--usually wheat or corn. A mill could grind up to 1,000 bushels of grain a week, six bushels per hour if the wind was steady. The popularity of this energy source spread throughout the ensuing centuries until in 1400 there were 10,000 windmills in England, mostly in the South and the East where massive wheat fields are located, particularly in East Anglia, Kent, and Sussex. Once windmills were located in London as well, but the only evidence of their existence that remains today may be found in street names such as Great Windmill Street and Millbank
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