I was out the other day, taking pictures again.

There was a strange light that made the grass greener than usual. Quite kitschy.
It rained the next day, so then I knew the reason.
30 Liters of rain per cm in under an hour.
The worst (rain)storm in the last 100 years, or so they say!
When my radio-alarm-clock woke me that day, it informed me that a house had been washed away in Engadin, Grisons.
Then there was news about trees blocking roads and motorways.

I drove to work without noticing anything. So I didn't give it another thought.
At about 10:00 the storm reached eastern Switzerland.
It started to bucket down with rain - it looked like one of those scenes from a cheap catastrophe film, where you get the impression that the camera is being sprayed with a hose.
It turned out that four windows at the place I work are badly sealed!
Of course, one of them is in my office.
By the time I noticed the fact, a pile of papers I'd had on the window-sill and the carpet below the sill were sodden.
The loo, two doors down was literally flooded!
I read in the news that the storm caused somewhere around CHF 10.000.000 damages - I'm not sure our loo was taken into consideration.

So what about the pictures?

I was out locally. The first picture is of the mountain range called the Alpstein (Alp-stone). It stretches from the Hohe Kasten (Tall Cupboard) - the one with the mast on the left - to the Säntis - the one with its peak in the clouds.



The second picture was taken with a tele photo lens so it's quite long.
Looking in the opposite direction to the first, you can see the village of Stein on the left, St.Gallen, in the valley just left of center and Teufen on the slopes to the right.



I shan't bother you with the fact that it took five hours to put the second one together!