Last week on November 2, Dia de los Muertos in Mexico, I followed the throngs who were streaming down the street. In Coatepec’s large, old cemetery, hundreds of people were gathering around the gravestones and tombs of their ancestors, whole families bearing flowers and decorations and food to spruce things up. It was a bright, [...]
This week in Coatepec is the Festival San Jeronimo, a week-long celebration in honor of the town’s patron saint. In English we know him as Jerome, c. 347 – September 30, 420, an early translator of the Christian and Hebrew scriptures. As I write this, fireworks – really big, loud ones – are exploding somewhere [...]
I was in Xico today and didn’t realize it was a fiesta day until this parade came up the street – they do this kind of thing a lot, at least once a month if not more. I grabbed my camera and took three short videos, all worth watching for a taste of “deep Mexico”. [...]
Los Reyes Magos (The Three Kings) visited a childrens’ event in the park today and gave out toys.
I was riding my bike down the main Avenue through town this evening, just moseying along looking at stuff and greeting the occasional acquaintance, when I came upon a Dia de Reyes party in the plaza. As this web site explains: “After New Year’s Day, Mexican families still have a very special date to commemorate [...]
Mexico feels magical to me right now. Not “fairy-dust” magical, as if this was a place where everything is perfect – hardly. But Latino-mystical magic, with its bright side and dark side, but all of it flowing together in a juicy, creative chaos. Yesterday I packed up and moved from Villas Tulum, where some amazing [...]
Here are some of my photos and videos from the parade yesterday. There were so many photographic moments, I wish I could have caught them all. Here’s a Flickr slide show of a bunch of the photos: And here’s a video showing the parade after it reached the back streets of Tulum, when it had [...]