Steel Flowers - Windmills of the Karoo

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Here in the South African Heartland – the Karoo – the windmill (windpump) is the premier icon.

This collection – now on special ongoing exhibition in Cradock next to Mila's Restaurant  in Durban Street - celebrates the Karoo, as framed by windpumps. It celebrates life in a dry land, the coming of rain, and the mystery of the great underground caverns of water.

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STEEL FLOWERS - WINDMILLS OF THE KAROO

Winter snows on the Wapadsberg Pass between Cradock and Graaff-Reinet

Early morning in the village of Rietbron.

The dusty grey Karoo Space bakkie on the road to Gamkapoort Dam in the Swartberg Range.

Climax - one of the enduring windpump brands in South Africa.

Evening time on a Colesberg farm - complete with creaking windpump.

The moon comes out. A charcoal cloud scuds by. The end of a Karoo day...

First light on a dirt road near Gariep Dam.

The March of the Windpumps - Loeriesfontein.

Sunlight streaks the day's last clouds.

Nothing can prepare you for the bleakness of a mid-winter Karoo day.

Snaggy-tooth windpump outside Rietbron.

Thunderhead building in the southern Free State - a windpump awaits at bottom, left.

A Spilhaus windpump - enshrined at the Turner Museum in Loeriesfontein.

The eternal crowing rooster at Prior Grange Farm, Springfontein.

Sunlight playing on the windpump blades of Loeriesfontein.

The massed windpump display at Loeriesfontein is the only one of its kind in Africa.

The southern Free State in a time of drought.

The lonely windpump near the site of the Battle of Boomplaats, southern Free State.

In the company of giants - Loeriesfontein at dawn.

Last three seconds of daylight fall on a windpump near Gariep Dam.

The windpump - the Grand Link between life in the Karoo and the vast underground caverns of water.

Karoo crafts are centred around the windpump, and you can find wire replicas on sale in Cradock, Middelburg and Colesberg.

There is no stronger Karoo icon than the windpump.

Nieuwoudtville - at the foot of Namaqualand - after a rain shower in the daisy season.

Although the 'modern' windpump was invented in the USA, it was quickly adopted by Australia and South Africa as well.

Even extra-terrestrials, it is rumoured, plot their way around the Karoo using windpumps as beacons...

Lekkerlag (laughing with gusto) is a farm in the Tankwa Karoo, where windpumps are essential items.

Sunset in the Noorsveld near Steytlerville,

Karoo farmers retiring to small towns often take at least one windpump along with them - for nostalgia and a regular water supply.

Grand stormlight breaks through the clouds onto a windpump and dam in the southern Free State near Jagersfontein.

Streaky skies, Aberdeen nights...

Winpump shadow falls on the ground at Loeriesfontein.

Windpumps - great designs in practical and aesthetic terms.

'The rain comes on legs' - a Bushman saying that's true, as this stormcloud graces one farm and ignores all the others...

Tres Amigos - the three brother windmills of Springfontein.

Nguni herd heads towards the windpump and water on a farm near Nieu Bethesda.

Even Smithfield - home of alien research - has more than its share of windpumps.

STEEL FLOWERS - WINDMILLS OF THE KAROO

Winter snows on the Wapadsberg Pass between Cradock and Graaff-Reinet

Early morning in the village of Rietbron.

The dusty grey Karoo Space bakkie on the road to Gamkapoort Dam in the Swartberg Range.

Climax - one of the enduring windpump brands in South Africa.

Evening time on a Colesberg farm - complete with creaking windpump.

The moon comes out. A charcoal cloud scuds by. The end of a Karoo day...

First light on a dirt road near Gariep Dam.

The March of the Windpumps - Loeriesfontein.

Sunlight streaks the day's last clouds.

Nothing can prepare you for the bleakness of a mid-winter Karoo day.

Snaggy-tooth windpump outside Rietbron.

Thunderhead building in the southern Free State - a windpump awaits at bottom, left.

A Spilhaus windpump - enshrined at the Turner Museum in Loeriesfontein.

The eternal crowing rooster at Prior Grange Farm, Springfontein.

Sunlight playing on the windpump blades of Loeriesfontein.

The massed windpump display at Loeriesfontein is the only one of its kind in Africa.

The southern Free State in a time of drought.

The lonely windpump near the site of the Battle of Boomplaats, southern Free State.

In the company of giants - Loeriesfontein at dawn.

Last three seconds of daylight fall on a windpump near Gariep Dam.

The windpump - the Grand Link between life in the Karoo and the vast underground caverns of water.

Karoo crafts are centred around the windpump, and you can find wire replicas on sale in Cradock, Middelburg and Colesberg.

There is no stronger Karoo icon than the windpump.

Nieuwoudtville - at the foot of Namaqualand - after a rain shower in the daisy season.

Although the 'modern' windpump was invented in the USA, it was quickly adopted by Australia and South Africa as well.

Even extra-terrestrials, it is rumoured, plot their way around the Karoo using windpumps as beacons...

Lekkerlag (laughing with gusto) is a farm in the Tankwa Karoo, where windpumps are essential items.

Sunset in the Noorsveld near Steytlerville,

Karoo farmers retiring to small towns often take at least one windpump along with them - for nostalgia and a regular water supply.

Grand stormlight breaks through the clouds onto a windpump and dam in the southern Free State near Jagersfontein.

Streaky skies, Aberdeen nights...

Winpump shadow falls on the ground at Loeriesfontein.

Windpumps - great designs in practical and aesthetic terms.

'The rain comes on legs' - a Bushman saying that's true, as this stormcloud graces one farm and ignores all the others...

Tres Amigos - the three brother windmills of Springfontein.

Nguni herd heads towards the windpump and water on a farm near Nieu Bethesda.

Even Smithfield - home of alien research - has more than its share of windpumps.