Painting the world

...and the plinth of the statue of the Greek sea-goddess Amphitrite in a place in Agde by the river Hérault near where it joins the sea, watched by two old men on a bench in the corner. When I reached the sea at Le Grau d'Agde, for the first time this year I was tempted to put my feet in the water - it was cold and we need a couple of months of weather like today before I'll swim there.