Rain, rain go away...
There’s a popular, overused Nowegian saying “there’s no bad weather just bad clothing.” I beg to differ. Each time we ventured out to walk this past weekend, it started to hail or rain. We did walk for an hour on Sunday but I chose a beautiful island walk that I did just a few weeks ago and now it was way too soggy, marshy to make it to the top. Just as well as it started to rain before we returned to the car. This morning I swam outside in the rain. Every day it rains off and on – mainly on. For a few weeks we enjoyed glorious weather on Wednesday and sometimes Thursdays but that seems to have ended as well. When the skies do clear there can be lovely vistas of distant, snow-covered mountains.

The first Saturday of November was raining as well so we decided to walk the wooded Rogaland Arboretum, about a 25 minute drive south of our apartment. We did make it to the top and as we were walking back down, met a couple we know from PWC/bridge/hiking. There were only about 20 people in the Arboretum and to meet two we know was a great feeling.

It is cooler and I've started wearing fleece and gloves, but there are still leaves on many of the trees and I still see roses in bloom.