First session began; conversation with Don Josep (grounds keeper)

View from my open air studio.

First session amounted to a rough start on a landscape view from my outdoor studio.  Cypress trees in the fore.  Segues to a (now) rather abstract field.  Second day I added a graphic element from the local iron work.   Feels good to be starting at last....should be a product week coming up.

The distant butte above Sant Feliu is El Faro with La Salut hermitage, and the second, Col de Contrero, another hermitage, both with restaurants.  As another local commented last night, what are you going to do at a hermitage other than eat?

Speaking of which, it is great to buy wine (vi negra) by the liter in a jug...great wine and inexpensive.  Breads are also wonderful...and the manchego sheep cheese...very bohemian.  Great fresh veggies and fruit, etc.  I can get used to this!