The last of the Americans

Yesterday, we said au revoir to our last group of American painters for this year.  We celebrated the 4th of July with them with a barbecue buffet on the terrace.  As the sun went down the group sang the star-spangled banner and we surprised them with a patriotic trifle in honour of the land of the free!

John, Trish, Tiffany and non-painting Ben who cycled to the top of Mont Ventoux instead!

Some of the work from Maggie Siner's oil painting week

Susan Abbott's Watercolour group

What a difference a day makes

We have a group of American watercolourists here for two weeks.  We have had exceptionally hot weather with the temperatures drifting into the high 30's.  Then on 1st July we woke up to a chute in the temperature down to 15 C and drizzle.  The 3rd of July, the summer returned.

from one extreme to the other