El Dia de los Muertos...beginnings

There is so much happening, it is hard to keep up.  It will take a few days to get photos up.  It seems like I go from one wonderful experience to the next.  Here is just a glimpse of yesterday.  There was so much more.
The main entrance to the Panteon General in the city.

Detail

Right from the source.  I stopped by one of the fields near my house where marigolds and celosia are grown and talked to the family.  It was a very good year, but there were tons of flowers yet to be picked and sold.  Here is el dueno, the owner, Don Milton, working with his little pick axe.

I had just come from the cemetery in Atzompa where the plan was to return later in the night. 

Here's what it looked like in the daylight.

And when night fell....

It was cold.  That why people are so bundled up.

The serenity and happiness were palpable.  Just wonderful...

and ethereal.

See I told you, you should be here.

Off for more.  More later.