The summer in pictures

Welcome back! I'm looking forward to seeing you again next week. First I have to spend a few days in Paris, France, where I'll see our son Luke, who is on a research fellowship here.

Sergei Anatolyevich will teach my Friday classes on September 2, but I'll be back the following week.

You'll come back to a very busy Institute. Look what's happening behind 32 Radio Street! ...

What did you do with your summer? Here are a few things that Judy and I did:

We took a train to Sukhbaatar, Mongolia, visited Judy's nephew Peter, and traveled with him to Ulanbaatar. From there we took a plane to Beijing and another plane back to North America.



While in the USA, I went to a blues festival...



and learned how to operate a tractor, at a farm near Spokane, Washington:



Here's a video clip from the Waterfront Blues Festival, from my favorite guitarist, Buddy Guy: