Friday, October 13, 2006

Grainy

To my eye, grain elevators are monumental, in a lost civilisation kind of way, and also slightly sinister.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Everytime I travel home to visit my folks I always say to whomever I'm with that the only elevators in this town are grain elevators.

Next time you're in Canada we'll have to drive across the prairies and you can get a real eyeful of them. But they're the old wooden red ones that the local farmers use, not the concrete monstrosities you see at port. The old red ones are prettier, I reckon. Here's a few:

http://www.jdhodges.com/calendars/20550.html

Nonjatta said...

A lot less sinister.