Part six: The road to Mehikoorma and Lake Peipsi Yes, another round of images. These track the landscape from Mooste to Mehikoorma, a town about 13 miles to the east located on the grand Lake Peipsi. Top left: an ex-windmill, followed by three images, showing three different means of observation and communication over multiple generations and technologies. Bottom center: I wish had a story to tell you of this church facade, other than it was rising out of the forest right off the road into Mehikoorma. Bottom right: Lake Peipsi, to your right Estonia, to your left Russia. In a land with so many bogs, swamps, lakes, and ponds, there must be quite an active amphibious life. Strangely, I found this Estonian newt crossing a dirt road north of Mehikoorma. The phrase for 'aw, how cute' in Estonian is 'tupsu nunnu' in case you needed to know. Ah yes, Soviet ruins! All of these images were from a particular complex whose architectural engineering must have been ordered in numerous places across Estonia, as John Grzinich has images of several very similar structures in various locations in Estonia. Strangely, his images also show an eerie similarity in their state of completion / collapse, as if the Soviets had commissioned one univerally reaching program and then pulled out of all construction at the same time. Outside of Tartu is this giant oil-shale power plant. Supposedly, the glow around the plant is actually a giant greenhouse, which keeps produce viable in wintertimes when it can be as cold as -25° C. Ouch. I just can't not think of this plant as metaphor to the grit and stubborn persistence of Soviet industry. Whether or not that metaphor is apt, I'll leave that to someone else. I warned you. There are more of silly photographs of Estonian power substations.