We just find this theme so ripe with examples that we felt it was worthy of an encore.
In the following video, a man dances around with an animal-shaped thing on his head that spits sparks all over the crowd. People hold their collars tight against their necks to keep out the sparks!
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| A power company worker leans his ladder against the power lines. |
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| If there is not going to be a riot, why do they have all that riot gear? |
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| At Hierve el Agua - and really everywhere else - there are no barriers to keep you from walking to (or off) the edge of a cliff. |
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| Pochote trees are everywhere and their spines are needle-sharp. Definitely not for treehuggers. |
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| Meat doesn't need to be refrigerated, does it? |
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| These kids play music from the rooftop of the church in Teotitlán to ring in the Fridays of Lent. I'm sure they're very careful up there, as teenagers tend to be. |
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| And here's what happens when things really go wrong. The town of Huayapam has a couple of holding cells right in the town square, usually reserved for the drunk and disorderly. We don't know if that was the case for our friend, Willy. :) |
That's how you know you're in Mexico!
ReplyDeleteLast night, too late to make this blog post, we happened to walk by Santo Domingo church just as a wedding procession was about to start. There were the usual "monos" (giant puppets) of the bride and groom and the spinning globe (the name escapes me right now). But what was incredible was a fireworks tower three stories high, anchored by guy-wires, with wheels of fireworks one after another spitting sparks into the crowd. But what was really surreal was the grand finale - from the top of the tower a spinning wheel of fireworks was launched up into the night sky - sending a circle fire, spitting sparks, explosions and smoke straight up above the crowd. We were sure it would come back down into the center of the crowd, which would explain why for the first time ever there was an ambulance waiting proactively at this event. But way up in the sky it exploded, and seemed to somehow disappear. This was followed by fireworks which were also impressive, but almost a let-down after the whole tower thing. And, somehow, gracias a Dios, no one was injured.
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