Tuesday, October 23,2012 1pm 85 degrees
Winter can begin now, we are all settled into our winter home where the temperatures outside run in the 90's every day with one day over 100 degrees. I could say we came back a little early, but....no...it's cold in Maine so I am happy here.
Of course we spent a little time looking around to see what has changed and what hasn't. There is a tree that we like just because it is old and gnarled and interesting and it just happens to be in a graveyard, so we went to visit it.
On the way , I noticed this grave. I think they might want to re-think a Happy Birthday balloon on a grave where the occupant didn't make it for more birthdays.....not too happy a day, maybe.
Just a suggestion.
We also laughed about this building that we thought was a bargain book store, so we went in and found it is a publishing place for a weekly booklet called the Bargain Book about local for sale items. Oops.
Biggest changes in the area, tho ares these 171 wind turbines that have been going up since January. When complete at the end of the year, they will generate 400 megawatts of electricity.
This nice flat ground is ideal for wind turbines as they need to be 20 or more times the height of anything else in the direct area.
I always wondered why there was so much opposition to wind power and according to the news here, one of the reasons is that because heat rises and the blades turn continuously their stirring actually brings the heat that has naturally risen back down to ground level. As to the danger to migrating birds which directly relates to this area as it is a natural migration route, they have developed radar that detects large flocks of birds and they can turn the turbine off when the birds are in the area. I wonder if that will actually happen.
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