Around 1906, a family began farming on a large tract of land just north of the Monroe city limits, just over 50 years after the state of WI was admitted to the Union. Corn, soybeans, and dairy cows were the main cash crop of the day and today acres upon acres of corn grows as far as the eye can see ready for the fall harvest. An amazing and colorful barn quilt also graces the machine shed that is on the property but that is not going to be the subject of this entry today. Located around the borders of the fields are numerous mechanical structures made from scrap metal, but serve as artistic structures either displayed as statues or elaborate Rube-Goldberg devices. The Waelti family has built these pieces of art for as long as anyone I know here can remember and tend to add to the collection every now and then. When we first moved to Monroe, it would be a game for our family to find all the structures during a trip to the store or whatnot.
I went out this morning, as I wanted to find some good shots of the changing leaves that we are enjoying right now, and drove past the place I wanted to stop initially. I drove down the road a little bit to look for a place to turn around and came up on the Waelti farm with all of the structures taking their place alongside the road. This structure is a road runner built as an airplane looking like it can take flight at any time. I took the photo and was pleasantly surprised to see that the sky had a very vibrant shade of blue which served as a great backdrop to the colors of the bird's head. Looks like Wile-e-coyote missed out on another chance of catching his dinner.
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