Spring has started well.

The kitchen garden. The fava beans carry flowers already
The kitchen garden. The fava beans carry flowers already

After a dry winter this week spring began. And it started fantastic: yesterday it rained cats and dogs and that was more than welcome. We have yearned for months for some rain here. From memory it has never been this dry. But now the vegetable crops are washed crisp and clean. The fava beans already carry flowers and it is not long before we will see the first beans.

The Chinese delegation also visited Helma in her studio.
The Chinese delegation also visited Helma in her studio.

Last week we had a special visit. The Deputy Director of the China Millennium Monument/ World Art Museum in Beijing came to see us on her spanish tour of some artist studio´s. We agreed to see whether there are possibilities to run a number of portrait painting workshops in China. So, who knows…