OK! Yesterday I had to look up the English word for weather vane (Wetterfahne) to describe my daily pic. It was not a burner, but I got some kind comments and Cherrill @Cherrill and Luise @Weezilou had a good idea to start a thread with this theme. I give it a go, as I wonder too how different weather vanes all over the world look like and from how many countries, we got entries in a week (19th August 2015).
I would love to see yours. Please share them and post your location with your picture. It’s just a theme, no competition. But you can tag: weather-vane-world
Wiki tells me: A weather vane, wind vane, or weathercock is an instrument for showing the direction of the wind. They are typically used as an architectural ornament to the highest point of a building.
They can be functional, decorative, beautiful, or like in my case, funny.
Have a great time, have fun and have always good weather!!!
Mona
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Mine is from Switzerland
@mona65 It's an excellent idea! I'll got by my friend's home tomorrow to photography the weathervane they just bought to add to their new home addition. It has a very local-Nova Scotia image... So see you tomorrow!
This is from over 2 years ago when I completed my solo project, before we started our family project. It shows the weather vane above what was once the headquarters of the North Eastern Railway in York, UK. The building is now a hotel.
Here is mine. St. James Farm Forest Preserve, Wheaton, Illinois (taken October 2013) You can't see it well in this picture, but this weather vane is on the garage. The driver of the car has a scarf on, but it's hard to see in this picture.
The Farm is closed right now for construction on the parking lot, but as soon as they reopen I will get over there and take a better picture.
More a weather station than a weather vane. Particularly as I haven't included the wind direction section. I use it for entomology (insect science) research, and also to monitor weather, as in this section of Australia we have drought, and on the farm amazingly strong winds, so it is interesting to monitor it.
Our windmills also show the direction of the wind as the fin on the back points in the direction of the wind, but you need to know which way is north to read wind direction.
I will be asking for forgiveness instead of permission to post this from a friend who probably won't see this thread but deserves to have her shot that she posted just this week seen! from Newmarket Suffolk UK
With so many lovely ones, and no time tonight to make the collage of the local one's I found around here, here's the cutest little one I came across in a friend's lovely bay-side yard. He'd told me to go out and photograph the one on his roof, when I also saw this. I hope he won't be disappointed this this rose to the top today! My postings are currently from the area around Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
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I did it! Hope you both are ok with it, that I picked up this great idea.
St Ives Cornwalll, Smeatons pier lighthouse
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The Farm is closed right now for construction on the parking lot, but as soon as they reopen I will get over there and take a better picture.
Australia: Armidale.
Here is another shot
Fun idea! :)