Dia de Los Muertos

I really like this Mexican holiday honoring the dead altho there seems to be some controversy if it’s truly indigenous or a rebranded Spanish origin.     I like that it’s joyful celebrating rather than mourning to remember and talk about the dead.      This is a simple ofrende (altar) this year with our parents and our dil Anne’s Mom who died last year…so we had a chat about them when the family was here on the weekend.  NO sugar sculls this year…maybe next year.    I do love the skeletal catrina dolls ..these were created by illustrator Jose Guadalupe Posada in 1910 as social protest against the classism of Mexican society.  It criticized those who aspired high social status and hid their roots.   The original print was La Calavera Garbancera…Chickpea vendors who pretended to be high-society Europeans……..a skull with a fancy hat.    Posada would say we are all the same skulls in death.   

Fiona sent me the extra last night.   Can you guess her costume?  (the tallest one)   I didn’t but H got it right away!!    Helps to see her friends for clues too.      

AND….I have to report an astonishing thing…..our new golf cart we just bought in Parksville is now delivered and sitting on the island next to my studio !!!!   The barge guy from
Saltspring Island just happened to be planning a trip north to Port Alberni, so picked up our cart on the way back,  and then we get a photo yesterday saying he had the opportunity to barge it right over .  NOT the usual “island time”!!!    We are flabbergasted.