Should we accuse him of having taken refuge in nostalgia or, on the contrary, of having chronicled moments and places in danger of disappearing? Barely thirty years after his departure, several places where he put his easel to transcribe on his watercolors vanished from our environment. Most of these beautiful wooden barns are no longer found, their fields often populated with residential developments, cold corrugated steel barns have replaced the human warmth radiating fom these traditional buildings.