The Ordeal

If you would like to read more about the ordeal--my own name for it--and see more photos, you can click here to do so.

The Group

I know many of the visitors here are not all that excited about parades. Nor am I normally. I have spent a lifetime avoiding parades. In fact I did not attend the previous three parades in connection with La Alborada, Saint Michael's very own fiesta, that have taken place while I have lived here. I did attend the one last Saturday obviously. For the first time in my life, I enjoyed a parade.

Groups from all over Mexico, from as far away as Oaxaca, came to town for this parade, which features indigenous costumes and dance. I am ashamed to say that I do not know where my favorite group came from. I missed the sign with that information, but they quickly got my attention. For one thing, they had some stringed instruments.

More Photos of the Parade

If you would like to see more professional photos of the parade during La Alborada fiesta, please visit my friend Michel's blog by clicking here.

Best in Show

I honestly do not know if the intention was Cuauhtémoc, but for the purposes of this blog, I am saying that he is Cuauhtémoc.

Waiting for the Parade

The truth is that I was only testing the settings on the camera. I cannot explain why I did not then erase the photo on the spot. After mousing past it innumerable times on the computer later, finally I looked at it. And I liked it.

Conde de la Canal on 29 September 2012 at 5:25 p.m. waiting for a 5:00 start. See the lady resting her head on the man's shoulders under the window? This is Mexico.

Plaza de Toros Oriente

Mirafuentes de Anda

La 3ª Novillada en San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato. 10 agosto 2012.

Plaza de Toros Oriente

Uriel "El Zapata" Moreno

Uriel "El Zapata" Moreno in the moment of truth. His colleagues on the afternoon card, Juan Luis Silis farthest left and Antonio "El Chihuahua" Garcia center right, are watching. Plaza de Toros Oriente on 16 September 2012.

Brain Cactus

. . . as it is called familiarly.