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In Honor of the Virgin of Guadalupe on Her Day, Dec. 12

As usual, click on photos to enlarge.

It is nearly 1 a.m. and the celebration down the mountain in the village of San Juan Cosala has just begun. The saint day of the Virgin of Guadalupe is the biggest celebration of the year in this town. The church is filled with flowers, bottle rockets have been going off all evening, and a band is loudly playing in the town square. This will go on all night and all of tomorrow. The pieces above were all made by me over the years, other than the one on the bottom left side. 

Day 1 of The Virgin of Guadalupe Festival

 

 

The cohetes (bottle rockets) are going off in rapid succession–one every few seconds—and my headache is accelerating at the same rate. As soon as I had  typed this, however, the bells started tolling, and in the minutes since they have stopped,  there hasn’t been a rocket going off.

Oops. Spoke too soon. It was just a brief intermission. Viva Mexico. Viva la Virgin!  There are 12 more days of her celebration.