Our nifty wind turbine in the fog

Turbine and abandoned cars (retinex)
Lots of people have been taking photos of our nifty wind turbine (or a PDF fact sheet), including some very cool sunset shots by biology prof Van Gooch that will be hanging up here in the Science Building sometime soon.

We had a very cool fog last week, and when I dropped Sub-Evil Boy off at school, the turbine was just peeking out through the top of the fog bank. With WeatherGirl‘s encouragement, I grabbed the camera and dashed off to snag some shots, several of which I’ve uploaded to Flickr.

I never did get the image that first caught my eye because we just don’t have anything telephoto enough for that shot, and by the time I was closer I was down in the fog looking up at the turbine. Yet another reason why we really need to get a digital SLR so I can buy fancy lenses again (evil grin). Still, I was able to have some fun and grab some pretty nice images.

Turbine, fog, and sunA cold reception at the gate

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Thanks, Pete

Thanks, Pete by D.James from Flickr
I wish I could take credit for this incredibly cool photo, but I can’t. The wonderful shot on the right is by D. James from Flickr. Equally excellent is the tale he tells with it; I’ll make you click through to check that out. I will say, however, that both the photo and the story strongly reminded me of Peter Whelan. Peter taught geology here at UMM for many a moon until his all-too-early death a few years ago, and he is missed as well.

Lithography by Imago from FlickrIn one of those happy coincidences, at around the same time I stumbled across this fine shot of stone and lichen by Imago (also on Flickr), on the left, and I think Peter Whelan would have liked it as well.

Then to round out the Peter theme, Peter Wyckoff (a biologist here at UMM) has asked if I’d be interested in helping out with some of the programming work he needs for a project looking at the effect of climate change on the prairie-forest border here in Minnesota. Oh, yeah, I’m interested. I love computer science, but I also love biology, so if I can mix them that’s definitely a happy day.

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