Trying to present the Best Effort

 

Without actually handing you a print! 

Another Re-scanned Print

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I'm sure hoping

 That I dont see a wall there behind my outhouse and my view of the mouth of Santa Elana Canyon! 

or that the outhouse itself gets bulldozed because it might harbor illegals!

and while we're on the topic the cartels now make more money smuggling fuel into Mexico than drugs into US! and not one drop of that goes through the Big Bend!

 

No Ice Storms Today!

 

Unless you count the ones arresting people!

 

More Old/New

 

Theres certainly a huge difference in size but both use the same principle-Harness the wind! In todays device, wind turbines- lots of technology, electronics, expense! The much, much older version- a whole lot simpler and in its various forms has accomplished its job since the 17th century, thats BC!!! While most modern turbines are around 250- 300 feet tall, there are a few taller than the Egyptian pyramids!

 

There's nothing quite like the sound of an "old windmill" turning in a breeze and the slap of its sucker rod as it pulls up water!