Monday, March 24, 2008

The Centipede


I was out on the east end of Long Island, and drove by a sod farm where I saw this irrigation device. It looked like some kind of centipede or bug coming over the rise of this hill! So I had to stop and have some fun playing with it. I think this is the best shot. It is called "Linear Irrigation" by the way, as opposed to those circular irrigation devices - the work they do can often be seen from high altitude in an aircraft, a bunch of tangent circles looking bright green in a surround of tan earth. You would be interested to know that linear irrigation is so efficient that it can water up to 98% of a field. Aren't you glad you came here today to learn stuff like this?

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