A beautiful arrangement of colorful flower petals, candles, incense burners, and flowers on top of a tombstone.
My favorite picture in the set. Flower urns, scattered flowers, crosses with inscriptions, warm lighting in the smoke and incense mist, still people, moving people, and gorgeous detail all over.
This would have been a good overhead picture of most of the cemetery. Unfortunately, one of the raised parts of the outside wall's parapet was in the way.
Something that you can see in most of the pictures is people in solemn mourning and then happy, serene people guarding other tombs. You can almost always see someone smiling, and that is a good thing to see even in a cemetery.
The people in the background, standing in a crooked line, are the visitors to the cemetery and the rest of the Mixquic celebrations.
On the foreground, people inside the cemetery intently watch the rest of the mourners. "Mourners" does not sound quite right, however. Many of these people did not go to the cemetery to wring their hearts and memories. They went there to keep company to their dead, to let them know that everything is good and that wherever they may be, they are always welcome here should they decide to come by and delight themselves in the food and flower offerings.
Badly-focused flowers.
People smiling and laughing. Could they be remembering funny anecdotes from their dead?
Flowers in marvelous detail.
It is people all over. Next year they will come back to keep company to their long-gone loved ones again.