Plage Paloma has reopened.

The restaurant is gone — a victim of a modernization program that Jean Louis could not abide. The beach has returned to its natural splendor, which is genuinely lovely and absolutely ruins any chance of a lazy lunch, a bottle of something cold, a transat nap, and a gelato.

Back to nature will take some getting used to.

The buggy, meanwhile, is being pressed into other duty. After a paint job.

Some places deserve to be painted before they change. This one changed. The painting stays.

Paloma Beach, Cap Ferrat, France. Watercolor on paper. 2022.

If this corner of the world speaks to you — the light, the pace, the particular blue of the Mediterranean in July — you might enjoy Reflekta, where stories like these get preserved for the people who come after us.

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