House Tour and Egg Smashing
On Sunday I visited three beautiful houses on the tour sponsored by the library. It is held every Sunday as a fund raiser for the library's literacy program. One house held my interest more than the other two because of the owner's collection of contemporary fine crafts and folk art. In fact, I had visited the same house two years ago but enjoyed returning to discover objects that I missed the first time. So here are some of the things that caught my eye.
The figure on the left is life-size and made of paper mache and packing tape. It greets visitors in the entrance hall. Then I was enchanted with the attitude of the terra cotta urn and love her necklace. She is going to appear in one of my prints!
I like the simplicity and sophistication of the sculpture on the left and the richness and folkiness of the assemblage on the right.
In between several cabinets in one of the bedrooms there were paper mache chickens! Love 'em!
Most of the buildings here have vaulted ceilings, some are more decorative than others. Mine (below) is very plain.
One of the houses had an expansive rooftop area with fire pit, kitchen, and hot tub.
And the view from the rooftop.
When I returned to the center of town, I discovered that children were celebrating Carnaval in the traditional way of smashing hollow eggs on each other's heads. Actually, the eggs contain confetti and or/talc/flour. The Jardin was packed with families and kids chasing each other with glee.
And the ground was covered with broken egg shells.
Surrounding the Jardin are vendors selling crepe paper flowers and toy clowns with eggs as heads.
And what is a fiesta without large puppets?
Wonder why Americans are attracted to San Miguel? Watch this Nightline ABC commentary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUk6MeOGGA0&feature=related
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