A fine summer with rain every two weeks until mid-August, everything very green.  More final touches on the Annex.  Summer music festival Labeaume, http://www.labeaume-festival.orgwith now the regular presence of the art director, composer and conductor Philippe Forget. In July, various visits for me including a rare glimpse of Anselme Kiefer’s kingdom near Barjac:

In August, as usual now, the irrepressible Barron family, two generations of Parisian journalists full of curiosity and imagination, discovering rural France.  At the same time, PHilippe Forget and the festival in full swing.

 

And for the first time, full use of the new workroom in the Annex…

and this strange amaranthus that chose to grow by the entry, on the most compacted, poor, dry soil!