Notes from the road
Jul. 31st, 2011 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_whomIn case any of you were wondering, the unreasonably terrifying wind turbines visible from the Pennsylvania Turnpike near Scranton are still there, and still creepy as all-get-out. I wasn't even going in the right direction for them this time—I spotted them in the rearview mirror.
This always happens: I pass the place where I expect them to be without seeing them, I say to myself 'huh, I guess they must be further along than I thought', and then I glance up again and suddenly with no warning there's two of them right there, perched right on the horizon, gleaming white, totally out of proportion with respect to all of the landscape around them. Then I glance up again and suddenly there's three of them. Then four. And they keep increasing, like an alien invasion force marching one by one over the ridgeline.
I have no idea how they had that increasing-number effect when I was driving in the other direction and away from them; you'd think if that's what happens when I approach them from the north, they'd seem to diminish in number as I drove away toward the north. But no! Which just made the whole experience even eerier.
(Also, they're not visible from Google Street View, which I suppose is quite reasonable given the resolution of the images, but is nevertheless exactly what one would expect of sinister invaders.)
This always happens: I pass the place where I expect them to be without seeing them, I say to myself 'huh, I guess they must be further along than I thought', and then I glance up again and suddenly with no warning there's two of them right there, perched right on the horizon, gleaming white, totally out of proportion with respect to all of the landscape around them. Then I glance up again and suddenly there's three of them. Then four. And they keep increasing, like an alien invasion force marching one by one over the ridgeline.
I have no idea how they had that increasing-number effect when I was driving in the other direction and away from them; you'd think if that's what happens when I approach them from the north, they'd seem to diminish in number as I drove away toward the north. But no! Which just made the whole experience even eerier.
(Also, they're not visible from Google Street View, which I suppose is quite reasonable given the resolution of the images, but is nevertheless exactly what one would expect of sinister invaders.)
