Early this morning I happened upon a sun-faded poster in an art store window, put up by a local artist sometime in the spring, offering art lessons in the Dordogne. Two weeks in June—an alluring idyll in southwestern France, with daily painting excursions to unspoiled villages, colorful market towns, stretches of oaks and walnut trees, and the pilgrimage site of Rocamadour. The students were to live in a restored seventeenth-century convent, drink aperitifs before their evening regional cuisine, and make another pilgrimage to the fifteen-thousand-year-old cave paintings nearby that are one of the mysteries of the soul, deer running in the vast darkness, bringing the ancient rock alive.
images: Dordogne River with cloud formation, taken from the Bridge between St. Sozy and Meyronne 20 July 2001, photographer cedricBLN
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