Empty landscape Wind turbines rolling lazy in front of layered sky. Alto stratus, rainbowed crystals and morning mists retreating to the river where smoothed rocks chatter and turn. Stretched shadows from black bales, winter feed for cattle still cropping, hoof-deep in mud by the trough, flicking flies from … ... more ...
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