10/1 is a significant date in Poland, it is a time when students are going back to college. I always liked that day to be cold and rainy, wet, and windy, a good occasion to referesh warm sweater, which kept smells of last cold days of a previous spring, unless we washed it.

Libraries, pubs and wet streets of the Old Town of Krakow, with yellow sticky leaf carpeting, were crowded with students in fall fashion, wearing long wool or lather coats, army coats, mountain hiking coats, or 2 grey sweaters instead.

I liked that melancholy of wet and cloudy first of October, that feeling that summer is over and missing mixed with an anxiety of a new school year, new relationships, new lectures, ideas to soak up with, parties and same old friends comming back from vacations.

Minnesota didn’t let me down as for my favourite weather on 10/1, neither did my mood. Summer is definetely over, my parents who visited me here and were a great support to our farm, went back home. And now it’s time to start planning what will be next, what idea to follow in our farming, what new investment to start for the next year. Days like today are perfect to sit and make these decisions.

But still, it is nice to have some pictures of summer vacation handy.
Here are some I would like to share:

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