First, let me tell you about these irises. They started out at our house when we lived south of Loveland. We transplanted some to our house on Ono. They would not grow in that salt air, so we put the bulbs in a bucket and took them to Derrick in Greeley. He has such a green thumb, he revived them. They are starting to bloom and look so pretty.
These irises have a lot of miles on them
Today we passed one of the top ten largest wind farms in the US. It's near Ellsworth, Kansas. It has at least tripled in size since we saw it last. Sadly, only about 80 or 90% of them are working. No one realized that the electricity generated by those huge windmills cannot be stored. So when there's no place for it to go, they have to shut the windmills down. It takes electricity to turn on the motors, to set the speed and to turn the motors off. What a sad waste of tons of money.
In and around Russell, Kansas is Post Rock country. When Kansas was being setttled, those incredibly strong people went to a rock quarry and dug up slabs of rock. They turned it into boundary posts. That's how they marked off the land they owned. Those post rocks, aka boundary stones, are still in place. I'm not sure of the real reason, but I want to think it is because of Proverbs 22:24 which reads "Do not move an ancient boundary stone set up by your forefathers". One day we are going to stop there and tour the entire area. When you are driving down the road at 65 mph and holding a camera to the window, the pictures are not the greatest, but you can see I was trying to show you what the boundary stones still look like. It's extremely fascinating.
The post rocks are on each side of the picture. I'm not
sure what is in the middle to the left of the trees.
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