A VIEW FROM JOHN BERGER'S WINDOW (AND A LILAC)

This is a view through a window on the second story of a small house in a small village in the French Alps. The room, converted into a painter's studio, had onced stored hay. In the floor are holes that connect to the room below where the cows had once been (it now stores a black motorbike). Outside it is raining, and the view is of a garden. Some of the trees are pear and apple. On the outside of the house there is a wooden door with a small piece of paper taped next to it. Written in handwriting are four names. One of them was John Berger.  (He wasn't home, but is wife invited us in and made us coffee.)

And a lilac picked by Mary: