Choices, choices!!

My Caprice, indeed!

I just read another article in the paper about an upcoming weekend activity here in the Bastide.  A local activities group is teaming up with students of the local beauty school for "Operation  Sortez Votre Art Contre l'Isolement"-- loosely translated as get out your art against isolation.  They are having two days of gatherings, music, art, the students will be offering their services to retirees, there's a bagged meal....I quote one of the participants. "The idea is to mix art, with an exhibit of paintings by Arlette Mouton, with beauty care, with music, with a range of people and generations....our wish is that people who are isolated and those who want to mingle can find one another." 

Now how cool is this?  Thursday, Friday and Saturday .  They are going to make a video, have poetry readings, singing, writing sessions in which they hope that people who are alone can form some bonds with other people. I plan to attend at least part of one of the days.  

The Aude is still running high.  The footbridge across is still covered and has snagged a tree trunk,

In addition, there's a free lecture about the Albigensian crusade, the "tactile concert," Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and a round table talk about the economy and unemployment organized by Christians in the Rural World.  I am interested in ALL of it....How could anyone be bored?

Workers getting the flower beds prepared for spring planting. Love the flat top trees.