Sunshine after rain

After all the warm sunny days here it started raining at about midnight last night and did not stop, it rained all night and this morning it was still raining. The cloud cover was low and you could not even see the mountains. 

We decided to drive down to the retail outlet centre at Landquart, it's about 30 minutes from here, and spend the wet morning mooching about there. It seemed everybody had the same idea as the car park was almost full and we got one of the last parking spaces. They have many fashion stores there and all the outdoor fashion labels like Mammut, Arcteryx etc. We did go into some of the shops and I did try on some things but nothing appealed. We ended up buying a large saucepan which we needed. Xena was with us and she is a very patient shopper, she sat calmly while I was trying on some clothing and never made a fuss!

We got back at lunchtime and by now the low clouds had lifted and it was blue skies and sunny once again. After all that rain the streams and rivers were so full of water, this is usually a tiny stream that trickles along but today it was in full flow.