Beats Nintendo any day. 

And what else at the end of the yellow brick road? 

Evening. 

And here it is a day or so later. Anyone interested should type "Coprinus comatus" in Google and find out why. 

The shaggy mane mushroom, Coprinus comatus, also known as inky cap or "lawyer's wig". Interesting one this, stay tuned... 

Any ideas? 

And this one is almost certainly the same as yesterday's, but found a couple of kms away in a park. (The same... same species not same individual. Fungi may be highly air-transmissible, but either as spores or mushroom pancakes.) 

Back to mushrooms. I only have a moderate interest in fungi. Once, though, at a lecture at the British Natural History Museum, I was very surprised to hear that a very much larger proportion of mushrooms are edible than actually believed. One rather startling story was that one species, identified empirically as poisonous in western Europe was considered a delicacy in Russia. Yes: identical, same chemical composition, same everything, different expectations, different effects. 

And today, for the birthday of my friend and mystery DailyPhotoBlogger, a gift. 

Sunset on cyclists. 

Summer comes to an end. 

Today, 20th August, is one of Estonia's various Days of Independence, this time from Soviet rule in 1991 after the 5-year-long Singing Revolution. Today, the Presidential Palace gates are open for people to see the gardens and hear the bands. 

Museum visitors 

Building in town centre 

Ye Olde rustic woodman's cottage, sort of. How many cities would you see the like of this ten minutes' walk from the centre?
PS: to compensate for my own rather uninspiring photography (waiting for someone to take over TallinnDailyPhoto...), check my new link of Estonia photos below 

They say all these old railway lines will disappear one day (when enough dollars or euros have been pumped in), allowing the sidings and shunting-yards to metamorphose into splendid new homes... 

One of the old buildings in Kopli, a one-time elegant residential neighbourhood which has undergone several social upheavals over the past 50-80 years. Who knows, in another 10 years, it may be up again? 

Yet another new building in Tallinn.

I'm sure they're going to stop laying those tracks before they get to the wall. 

Couple 

Man contemplating the odds of having a smoke and his significant other not noticing. 

Another ot Tallinn's tower, currently under repair due to attack by 16th-C Lithuanian brethren 

What better place to write (spray) grafitti? 

This time they managed to get the walls straight. 

Brand new: they dug up the plot and pitched these 50 or so huts in about five weeks (I'm probably exaggerating).