If your lawn looks boring and blah, there’s an easy way to give it a ton of character: Install a decorative windmill!
Windmills have been around for centuries grinding wheat into flour, pumping water out of low-lying areas, generating electricity and adding beauty and motion to landscapes. The decorative variety are typically quite inexpensive, and with occasional maintenance they tend to last for years.
My fondness for windmills blossomed way back when I was a little girl growing up on my parents’ rural Wisconsin dairy farm.We had three windmills pumping water from a nearby stream into a series of small ponds that the cows drank from. I would stand for minutes at a time watching those beautiful blades spin round and round, whirring and working their magic on both the ponds and my psyche.
Those were good times back then. It was a different era that is likely never to return, but over the years I’ve kept those wonderful memories alive by keeping a pair of decorative windmills out in my yard. I truly love sitting on my back porch listening to the bullfrogs sing their comforting songs in early evening while watching even the slightest breeze bring my beloved whirligigs – and my lawn – to life!
About the author: Susan Pence is a retired elementary school teacher and self-described “nature nut”. She enjoys writing about anything and everything – especially the “good ole days”!