Saturday, October 29, 2011

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The Earth is naked with shadows now, dark bands that creep across the ground like the drowsy hands of winter's clock. 
With each slow sweep, the land grows stiller, calmed like a child caressed to sleep by the hand of a patient mother. In every rustle of the fallen leaves, each click and rattle of the pale, dry twigs, you can hear her whispering, "Hush, hush."
                  Author Unknown
 


 

Walt Disney's 1929 La Danza Macabra
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Mexico's Grateful Dead 

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Throughout the country on November 1 and 2 people build elaborate altars and fill them with the favorite foods and drinks of deceased loved ones, who's souls are believed to return each year.
Tamales, mole, chocolate, green-pumpkin candy, mescal, and atole (a thick corn base fruit drink) are common. And no gathering is complete without a few of the brightly colored candy skulls called Calaveras de Azucar and Pan de Muerto (Bread of the Dead), a sweet anise and cinnamon flavored bread often baked in the shape of a skull.

Sugar skull cookies



Vera Cruz man holding marigolds in a cemetary