Trained as a graphic artist, Short’s eight-foot windmills are painted with flower petals, featherheads, animals, flags and ...

RANDOLPH COUNTY, N.C. — Some things are difficult — if not impossible — to see with the naked eye; wind for example. But one of Roy’s Folks has a way of turning the wind into an real eye catcher.

While the company's website advertises functional and decorative windmills, the decorative ones are identical to the ones used to pump water. With the economy still struggling in recent years, "we don ...