MEXICO. San Miguel de Allende Through Harold’s Lens.
Category Archives: San Miguel de Allende
Grit. Equestrian Grand Prix.
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Airs. Equestrian Grand Prix.
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Hope.
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Evening’s Show.
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Waiting For A Gig.
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Every night, Mariachi musicians patiently wait in the town square for travelers to ask them to play and sing Mexican folk music full of passion and excitement.
Mariachi music is Mexico’s best known form of folk music. 
Fun Side Of Town.
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The annual celebration of this country’s 200+ year independence from Spain brought out the wild, crazy and fun-filled characters in town.
Call To Prayer.
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Wings Of A Bird. The Ballet Folklorico.
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Love Touch. The Ballet Folklorico.
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Calendar Selection For Through Harold’s Lens: “Rattling Rhythm”.
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The Indian dancers stomped through town.
I fell in love with the rattling pods on their feet.
Entering the middle of the circling drums and dancers I found myself flat on my belly clicking away.
Selected for the annual calendar of the Garden Club of San Miguel de Allende.
Strum And Hum.
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Stroll through the alleys and narrow lanes of San Miguel de Allende with the legendary Estudiantinas.
These student singers, dressed in 16th century medieval costumes, play their lively, contagious music as they strum their musical instruments, sing and dance.
Visitors follow behind them dancing and drinking wine from a flask.
Image Of The Week For Through Harold’s Lens: “Siesta Time”.
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The soothing tranquility of the hammocks were in direct contrast to the hustle and bustle of the market.
Selected as the Image of the Week by the Atencion Newspaper. San Miguel de Allende.
Tango in Town.
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Tango.
A dance made for lovers.
If there’s one dance that people consider romantic and sexy, that would be the Tango.
The sultry dresses women wear!
The swing and movement of a woman’s legs.
The beat of the earthy and dramatic music.
The swish of the tight, black, silky skirt is a mesmerizing site indeed.
Image Of The Week For Through Harold’s Lens: “Church of the Nuns”.
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The Church of the Immaculate Conception, called Las Monjas (The Nuns).
A twelve-sided dome modeled after the Chapel of Les Invalides on the left bank in Paris.
Work on the church began in 1755. The dome was added in 1891.
The statue of the Immaculate Conception sits on the top of the dome.
The convent inside was founded by Dona Maria Josefa Lina de la Canal y Hervas, the eldest daughter of San Miguel de Allende’s wealthiest family.
She was the town’s richest debutante and most eligible bachelorette.
At the age of 16, when her parents died, she petitioned the King of Spain to found a congregation to be known as the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.
She then donated the land and took her huge inheritance and built a convent to hold 72 nuns.
At her death at the age of 34, Josefa was interred after the most elaborate funeral the town had ever witnessed.
The Sisters of the Immaculate Conception, the same order that founded the convent in 1754, is the same order that resides in the convent today.
The convent originally held 66 cloistered nuns and 6 secular nuns. These 6 nuns would interface with the outside world. Each nun was to bring a dowry of 4000 pesos.
Today Las Monjas still contains a small cloister of active nuns.
Selected image of the week by Atencion newspaper. San Miguel de Allende.
Friends Drop In.
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During the early dawn hours I can often see and hear a brightly colored hot air balloon drifting high over my home against the royal blue sky.
One morning the “whoosh of fire” was loud.
I rushed out of my home with my camera.
10’ above my patio this image floated by.
Alms.
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The sights and sounds of pleading prayers of the elderly.
Trying to survive one day at a time with the help of their church and a few pesos from strangers.
Calendar Selection For Through Harold’s Lens: “My Rose. The Ballet Folklorico”.
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Selected for the annual calendar of The Garden Club of San Miguel de Allende.
