Hot take: Golf courses and green fees should be water-taxed to oblivion until it makes absolutely no sense for them to exist anywhere but damp climates like coastal PNW and Scotland.
Born in 1732 in Grasse, the city of perfume, he went to Paris, studied under Boucher, won the Prix de Rome, and returned from Italy with a love of the light, the gardens, and the freedom of the south that never left him.
We never really talked, just saw each other from a distance almost every day, waved sometimes, knew we noticed each other without ever actually getting close.