View of Avignon from the Palais des Papes, Watercolor, 20 x 27, $1000

Avignon was where my bike trip began.  I climbed the hill where the Palais of the Popes was built in the 12th century.  Nearly all I could see in any direction was the red tiled roofs of the town of Avignon spreading before me.  The bright afternoon sun was shining, birds were diving off the wall on which I was leaning to make this sketch, tourists and hawkers were enjoying the day as much as I.

This painting has been exhibited in the Watercolor Society of Indiana annual juried show.