Drawing Goodbye

Classes had been over for a week, but it was on the very last day of my summer teaching trip that I was invited by a few students to draw a “goodbye” to Viterbo—the city where we had been working for a month. I was flattered to be asked, and my son happily joined us.

Via San Pellegrino is certainly the most beautiful street in the city. It’s a charming, narrow, medieval thoroughfare, complete with arches, towers, piazzas and external stairways. Romeo and Juliet would feel right at home.

Karen, perhaps the most plucky student of the group, or any group for that matter, plopped herself down in the middle of the road for her drawing session, and got herself into my picture. Good for her. She had to move only three times in ninety minutes—once for the tiny street-cleaning truck, which shimmied and shook its way by.