You may also want to visit Jim's kite site homepage. Living at 58 N latitude makes for interesting conditions. At night, the North Star is much higher in the sky than we are used to seeing. During the past month, we've gone from 16 hours of sun to just 12 now. This means the change in sunlight from day to day is quite noticable.
Autumn is underway here with maple trees showing color, and birch trees dropping leaves.
We broke out the sweaters the first week of September. Day temperature is in the 50s and night time in the 30s. Ground fog forms after sunset, and we saw a beautiful moonrise that was reflected in the fog. Northern Europe experienced an unusually cool and cloudy summer, and autumn began early. In August, we spent one week on the island of Vormsi in western Estonia, which we found quite nice.