Eve Power

We have 100 acres behind our house. There are fields and a hill laced with roads and trails. You would think then that we use those 100 acres for hiking, but the truth is, it's fairly inaccessible for at least 1/2 of the year. There is a creek between our house and the hill; a sizable creek. The creek is low enough to cross with our car intermittently, and in the summer it's warm enough to cross in sandals. In the fall is hunting season, so we can't use it then, and in the winter, it doesn't freeze over, so the hill is mostly unusable.

Luckily, the Finger Lakes Trail is nearby, so we've been checking that out. We know the FLT in the Ithaca area well, but around here, it's mostly new territory. There is a section of the Finger Lakes Trail here that I have come to love. It is a limited use highway, and at the top of the hill are wind turbines.

Eve Power, a wind power company, has tons of them up around here. I love them. They are incredibly beautiful and serene.

You can see Brian and Atticus in the bottom of the picture above. The turbines are pretty big.

It's my favorite place to take Atticus on a walk. We'll get up there, and I'll just let  him roam while I sit and listen to them and watch them. When they're moving fast, it sounds kinda like a plane passing overhead. When they're moving slowly, you can hardly hear them at all.

When wind power first came to this area, many people were up in arms against the idea. They were convinced that the propellers would move so fast that they would chop up birds as they migrated...bahaha. What a joke. If a bird hit a wind turbine, that would be a pretty stupid bird. People also said that they would make really loud propeller sounds. Also a joke...like I said, when they're moving fast (and only then), they sound like a plane passing overhead.

At any rate, I'm a fan of wind power. Not only are they clean energy; they also add something to a landscape. They have become part of the skyline for me; I would miss them if they weren't around.