Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Oil Farm

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Tankers will be increasing their visits to the Fore River to drop supplies of home heating oil into storage tanks like these in Quincy Point to ready the supplies. The Northeast is one of the few places in our country that relies heavily on oil to heat their homes. Our heating season runs from October through March.

4 comments:

brattcat said...

Wouldn't it be great some day to find a greener solution to keeping us warm through all of those months?

Birdman said...

Funny... I just took some shots of these at the So. Portland tank farm. Will post soon.

John said...

Gorgeous sky.

slim said...

Yes, bc, a greener solution would be preferable and the frustrating thing is that we have the brains to come up with a viable alternative,

Summer Attraction

This tiger swallowtail butterfly was a delight to see pollinating the phlox bed along my driveway.