Durfort is the sweet village that La Cascade is located in. The village has been making copperware since the Middle Ages and still continues to do so. Behind the village square (which is lined with copper and other craft shops) are three streets of house. I love the “human scale” of these streets with their lovely timbered fronts and flowers spilling out of boxes. You can’t walk very far without seeing someone you know (or don’t know yet) who wants to say Bonjour and know who you are. This is one of the most welcoming places I have ever been too!
If you would like to know more about this special part of France and the workshops I offer there, please email me! I’d love to share it with you.
Thanks to Mary Stickney for this picture!
My second group of artists (and fantastic adventurous ladies) has just left and La Cascade seems so very quiet right now. We had a most wonderful week of art-making, markets, flea markets, artist studios and excursions to wonderful sights like Albi and the monastery of EnCalcat.
It’s the time of year here in the Languedoc (translates as the Language of Yes!) when the rolling fields are blooming with vibrantly colored sunflowers.
Saturday we went to Albi after the Saturday market. Albi is magnificent and I never tire of exploring the awesome(literally) cathedral there. Right around the corner is the newly renovated Toulouse Lautrec Museum and also a wonderful pedestrian only shopping area- very trendy fashions, hand crafted hats, cafes, bookstores and a store specializing in the original blue pastel dye (made from the woad plant and the only blue dye til indigo came).