Comfort Food

We had a cold snap (ok, it was 65 degrees) but I felt the need for some stick-to-your-ribs cuisine so headed down to my favorite cafe on the Plaza, Don Tomás, for the sausage plate with grilled onions and chills and nopales.  As satisfying as that turned out to be, I headed around the corner to San Augustín for their famous hot chocolate and churros.  You get three with your hot chocolate, so what could I do?  Note the huge oil painting of San Augustín himself being served hot chocolate by a putto.

Drawing at Instituto Allende

 Guillermo, my teacher, in green and  classmates

Classes are held in the painting studio, where Guillermo holds figure painting classes

Warm days and food

 The public laundry is a cool place to beat the heat

tasty bites to take up to the terrace while watching the sun go down

Working Saturday

 Beautiful Doña Antonia, my housekeeper

Public laundry

Goofy planters!

wheelbarrow boys waiting for clients at Candelaria

A Quiet Day

 I got up late to sunny skies and had my breakfast on my balcony:  workers were already preparing walls for painting and watering neighbors rooftop plants

 I headed down to the Candelaria plant sale again, had a coconut drink and browsed the offerings

 the white hairy fellow is called "viejecito"  (little old man)

 this is where I'm enrolled in drawing classes starting next week

homework for current drawing class:  copying an Egon Schiele drawing

Candelaria: a Celebration of Plants

 Each year at this time plant vendors from all over Mexico come and fill a local park with their offerings.
It's an affirmation of spring and new growth.

 Air, fire, light, humans, animals, land, water, plants, insects, thoughts, emotions, feelings
All that you see, hear, feel, smell, think, do - even the unknown and the invisible is the manifestation of god

 At this altar the seeds are blessed

 I think I'd better try the coconut,lime, chile drink!

A Brilliant Sunday