Category Archives: Everyday
This Year’s Lineup
Better than ever, this spring’s lineup at Mi Casa includes Gil Gutiérrez: Guitar, from Oaxaca and now San Miguel, Bob Stern: Violin, from Long Island, New York, Camille Garcia: Accordion, from France and now San Miguel, Ruben Olvera: Bass, from … Continue reading
Starting Young
Last night, while this performer was playing for the evening strollers in the Jardin, this minute Mexican, who could hardly walk, put down his bottle and for the next twenty minutes followed him around enthusiastically imitating every step and whoop, … Continue reading
Jim Henson, Where are You?
A poodle, I guess, but looks more like an invention of Jim Henson. Looking longingly at the Restaurant Pegaso across the street. Waiting for a table?
Quinceañera
In many Latin American countries the Quinceañera, celebrated when a girl reaches fifteen, marks the passage to Womanhood. The characteristic ball gown, in Mexico pink seems to have become the favorite, is frequently seen around town. After the Quinceañera Mass … Continue reading
iPhone Antics
Everyone visiting San Miguel has to have their photo taken with the towering Parroquia (see two posts below) as a backdrop. This dude does it the right way. Dressed as a cowboy, I guess rolling around in the dirt is … Continue reading
Agnes Olive
Originally from Canada, Agnes Olive is one of many gifted artists living and working in San Miguel. She has spent many years putting together some extraordinary pieces constructed mainly from found objects, forming them into sculptural works featuring powerfully-featured mystical … Continue reading
Hole in the Wall
San Miguel is full of holes-in-the-walls, selling anything from Gorditas to underwear. This another kind of hole-in-the-wall, as always, painted rather than repaired.
Castillo
Fireworks are a constant feature of Mexican life (there are some banging away overhead as I write), and the pieces de resistance are always the Castillos, giant towers thirty or so meters high, covered with spinning wheels and crowned with … Continue reading
Winter Colors
It’s time to pack up and head south again. We were hit by our first spell of snow and below-freezing temperatures in New York this week, not that that seems to slow down New Yorkers any and not nearly as … Continue reading
Fall Colors
Taken from the Wallkill Valley Railroad Bridge, the hillside houses of Rosendale, an old cement mining town on the southern fringe of the Catskills, are still partly hidden by the fall leaves.