Mick's nice ride vs. mine...

heh! I went to the feed store this AM and was thinking of y'all when I
stopped and snapped some scenery along the way. In this case, it is pics
of derelict windmills. (A tune included this time for a change.)

(I had quit doing this awhile back, but I guess if I'm gonna continue I
need to use a WYSIWYG web page maker far newer than the old Netscape 4.7
I cling to... LOL!)

Oh, well...

NHunkele...

Thanks, JD. Lovely photos but leaves kind of a hollow feeling in the

Val Adams...

Great page, and pix! and I love the song..and fully agree with you,
without windmills would be no West, or Mid-West either.

JD Cooper...

yep!

Thanks, Val.

dae...

JD,

Val Adams...

FYI, Mark just bought me NetFusion8, which has some nice features, but
appears a little tricky to upload, you have to send a cache with it.. they
have renamed stuff in a proprietary way

I really enjoy looking at your web pages. They tell the history of the past
and of today. The old windmills which were prevalent here in Indiana and
the weather in Texas at the time you took the photo's. We are still waiting
for the "green up" as Spring is a little late around here.

Don and his Devil

JD Cooper...

Well, the picture is very "telling" if you are from around here. In
fact, the pasture you see there should be extremely verdant at this
point and there should be cattle grazing on it. Truthfully, what you see
in that picture is the result of our continuing drought. It is very,
very sad here... but not as bad as I've seen it in the past.

david...

fortunately, there are many FREE web page editors today that didn't exist
back when netscape first included this tool (was it netscape 3? i seem to
recall it was called 'netscape gold' at the time....?)

Shirley...

If only historic places and items could talk....what grand stories we would
hear, but than they say pictures are worth a thousand words...thanks for
letting us "listen" along with you....Oh! and I recognized your picture
immediately... ;o}

JD Cooper...

**Dalin**...

What did you ever do with your windmill that was blown down? I know
it wasn't a working one, but it once was. I hope you did/will erect
it again as they are fast disappearing.

hehe! Yep! Kinda hard to mistake me, ain't it?

Sue...

That's kinda sad! I feel the same way I do when I see an old home up here
with the roof caved in, but the chimney still standing strong. Sad.
sue

JD Cooper...

Val Adams...

uh..from that angle, yes, a little..

Not Shirley

or Val, either...

yes, I know.. I pass by that stuff all the time but oughta take a minute
to photo such things.

Maybe you inspire me.

david...

JD, i always admire your photographs and your editorials of the west. i
share your sentiments. i have a relative (son of brother in law... what
does that make him to me?) who repairs windmills in mid texas. i've never
met him, but i admire what he does. old windmills tell a story that will be
lost when they are gone. i'm glad that you are capturing some photos of
this part of americana that is disappearing.

JD Cooper...

Thanks, David. BTW... If I ever get serious agian about web pages I'll
modernize. I got my heyday in the late 90's when I had the page for my
old dog... but since then have had nothing to brag about. Perhaps I'll
update my skills later. I'll have to throw out my old books and buy new
ones 'cause the language has evolved considerably since then.

throat.
Norma

JD Cooper...

david...

well, all my skills are from the 90's, too. i learned just enough HTML to
get text and photos loaded and that's pretty much it. i'm not sure my
interest is high enough for CSS and XML and all of that. if you browse the
source html for the recipes, for example, you'll see very basic stuff...:)
- i probably won't have the incentive to change until what i know stops
working....

**Dalin**...

JD Cooper...

I explained it on the bottom of the web page I posted.

**Dalin**...

Well gee, it's all your fault! You shoulda said there was another pic
below the lyrics! hey David knows a windmill repair man.
Somewhere in Texas, I don't know where. But you said it isn't
fixable.

It looks sad.

Whatever you're doing now works great! I love the pictures you put up
and the accompanying text. So different from life in the northeast,
the trees, the ranch, everything.

No big deal, really, because if the proposed path of Governor Blow Dry's
"corridor" comes true, all you see there (including my place) will be
buried under concrete and asphalt within twenty years. Well.. that's
just the way it is.