Category Archives: San Miguel de Allende
After the Eggs, Feathers
Each year, on the first friday of March, several groups of befeathered Concha dancers perform from dawn to dusk and beyond in the Jardin in San Miguel. This is one festival event it is difficult to miss. Just follow the … Continue reading
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Egg Bonking 2012
Once again, for a couple of days before Lent, the young folk in San Miguel go nuts smashing confetti or ash-filled colored eggs, known as cascarones, on the heads of each other and of innocent bystanders. Sitting on the low walls surrounding … Continue reading
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Cactus Fruit and Pumpkin Seeds
A regular sight on the streets of San Miguel, in this case on Relox, are the little old ladies who come in from the Campesinos to sell whatever they can harvest – from pumpkin seeds to cactus fruit, which the … Continue reading
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The Open Air Crypt of the Templo de Santa Ana
The Templo de Santa Ana, built in 1847, is unique in that of all San MIguel’s many magnificent churches, they managed to complete a wonderful and rich interior, but never got round to the outside. It sits next to the … Continue reading
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Low Tech Roadworks
Compared to the din of mechanical equipment tearing into the asphalt in New York, the clink-clink of a road gang in San Miguel is a delight. This is the standard method for repairing any of the streets here, and is … Continue reading
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Adaptive Re-Use: Sparkplugs
More adaptive re-use. This time for a gate sign for Hermilo Tovar’s tiny junkyard on the Salida a Celaya. This is just a detail of a whole universe of imaginations he has welded and painted around the entry to his … Continue reading
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Back in Mexico, Handcrafted Retreads
At the corner of Calzada de la Luz and Calzada de la Aurora in San Miguel, this hole-in-the-wall tire emporium displays its latest inventory, most of them with laboriously hand-carved treads on previously bald blowouts and finished off with a … Continue reading
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The Blessing of the Horses
So far this week, we have seen the parades and blessings of the bicycles, the taxis, and in this case the horses. And those are just the ones we happened across. An impressive sight, over two hundred vaqueros (cowboys), and … Continue reading
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Danza de los Voladores
As part of the Feast of the Archangel San MIguel, the Danza de los Voladores (Dance of the Flyers), although considered heathen and partially eliminated by the Spanish Conquistadors has now been incorporated, like many other Aztec and other dances, … Continue reading
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Happy Feet
Our regular evening stroll into the Jardin usually lands us in the middle of some wild activity or other. On most occasions we have no idea what it might be in aid of, although in Mexico, not much reason is … Continue reading
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