'Windmill love' sees Dutch artist become mill operator

Now Wessels, who rose to fame by painting windmills on the mill's used canvas sails, is taking it one step further. She is training to become a real-life miller -- someone who operates and maintains a windmill -- joining a growing number of women in what was once seen as a man's world. It was a blustery afternoon at De Heimolen, an ancient wheat mill in Rucphen-Bosschenhoofd near the southern Dutch city of Breda. Perched some 10 metres (about 32 feet) on one of the four wings of the mill, built in 1866...