Hey Tooth Fairy!

Nice aerial views of our village

Our neighbor, Mr. Toepfer, went for a hot-air balloon ride in August. Here are some photos -- and don't forget you can click on them to see them larger.

In this picture, you're looking south towards Switzerland across Lake Constance. We live in Esseratsweiler, or "E-Weiler" as we call it. Makes it sound hi-tech.

Here you are looking south right down our street, with Lake Constance in the background.

This picture is looking west across the village. I've marked the important things. The Dornier factory makes industrial machines to stretch foil and cellophane, but they work quietly, we never hear a thing. It's much more common to hear saws from the various woodworks in the area.

Here's our house! You can see how many trees we have, lots more than most. The Toepfer's cherry tree in front is huge, they gave us about 15 kilos of cherries this summer. At the bottom of the picture you can see the yellow old-folk's home, it's between the 'Landhaus' restaurant and an old silo factory. The tee-intersection in the lower left are the main streets to and through the village.



A warm November day, let's go for a walk!

Here's our house. The neighbor's cherry tree is about halfway done dropping its leaves.

The cows are still out, usually by this time of year they've gone inside for the winter.

Light sweatshirt weather, mid 50's, warm in the sun.

Fall means long shadows.

Someday...

Biggest oak tree around. I bet it's older than Grandma Margie. See me in the photo?



It's been so warm the last weeks that the trees are late turning.

Happy cows come from southern Germany.



Special thanks to Uncle Tom for the Canon camera that made these great photos!

The trail behind me starts at the end of our street, about 100 yards south from our house. The cows are just over the hill, and the big oak tree another quarter mile further on. It's not far.  If you want to see our village on Google Satelite view, click here: http://g.co/maps/mtavd . The big oak tree is the dot that stands alone in the very center of the picture, two-thirds of the way to the bottom, just a bit south-southwest of our house.