It turns out that I won't be working in the studio until Friday, so today I rambled around town re-familiarizing myself with the locations of certain shops for necessities and others for just exploring.  Walking though town to take in the sites can be risky business because the pavements and sidewalks are uneven cobblestones, the sidewalks are very narrow and the curbs often high.  When crossing a street in Mexico City, pedestrians never have the right away, but in San Miguel, tourists are a valued commodity, so traffic is less aggressive. The skill for a crossing a street that I gained in Vietnam this past fall is serving me well in San Miguel.  The technique is to walk across the streets with eyes straight ahead so as to ignore the traffic coming from either direction.

The sounds of San Miguel in mid-day include that of lots of birds, including roosters crowing and doves cooing and others singing.  Throughout the day and evening bells toll from a number of churches and Mexican music plays from radios.  In the evening there are the sounds of the live mariachi bands that gather in the main square, the Jardin.  And then, there are those occasions when there are fireworks, sometimes in the evening and sometimes in the middle of the night or early morning.  It seems that it doesn't take much of a reason for fireworks to be set off!