One unfortunate driver ran into a police car at a busy intersection in Warsaw, and we came on a car-train accident in Slovakia. We were happy to return to Estonia without any such incidents ourself. We spent anywhere from 10 minutes to one hour at each of several border crossings. We were relatively lucky, as we know border crossings can sometimes take 9-12 hours. Now we're well into autumn.
Trees are bare, the sun is low, and daylight is becoming noticably short.
This is the season of burning. In the city, piles of leaves smolder day and night, while in the countryside crop residues are gathered up and set afire. The combination of hazy air and long shadows brought an end to our efforts to acquire kite aerial photographs. Susie and our older son, Jeremy, have made substantial additions to our life in Estonia webpage. Jim gave a series of lectures at the geology institute of the University of Tartu and to the Tartu Observatory.