"Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall..."

Sometimes your plans just don't work out.  "Into each life some rain must fall...," said Longfellow; and it did (literally) last Saturday as we were making our way back to Germany's Black Forest.  This time we were going to take a ride through a lot more of it, further north than Titisee.  We were also going to take a stretch of road called schwarzwaldhochstrasse---literal translation, black forest high street.  It's a 60 km stretch of road between Freudenstadt and Baden Baden that is way up in the mountains with beautiful vistas (if there's not raindrops, clouds, fog, and mist in your way).  We'd hoped to spend a few hours in Baden Baden, too.  Once, we were there, however, there was a constant drizzle with constant dreary yuck.  We decided we'd have a lot more fun exploring the city on a nice summer day.  I snapped a few pictures (yes, from the car) as we started out (while the clouds were gathering and turning darker and darker).  Later, I quit taking them at all because we were up in the mountains with trees on either side of the road or with crumby visability.  The weather vane I caught while going through a tiny village, and the church was one in Baden Baden.  So, though there's nothing really too new or exciting in these shots, you can get an idea of why it is called the Black Forest as the pines look so dark, and you can get an idea of rural Germany in this area.  Anyway, it was a pretty ride albeit disappointing because we couldn't see all we went to see:





Auf Wiedersehen!!