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Muertos y Marigolds
Muertos y Marigolds
Dia de los Muertos in South Valley
Dia de los Muertos in South Valley, no te olvidas. Muertos y Marigolds. You won’t forget. This local Albuquerque Day of the Dead celebration brings droves of burqueños out onto the main street of Isleta Boulevard, faces painted, calaveras, dressed up in marigolds to celebrate death with art and remember the dead.
All the colors of fall come together out there on the streets of South Valley that first weekend in November. The noises of masses mixed in with yellow and golden-orange hues moving across up and down the boulevard is spectacular to view. Tricked out lowrider bikes ride by under tall skeleton muertos marionettes sometimes waving “¡hola!” Faces, faces, and more faces, painted, so many faces painted dead white and colored in decorative black lines with deep black eyes.
The South Valley Marigold Procession, the parade, is first and foremost the spectacle not to miss. But the beauty of this celebration is much in preparation, in the kitchens and other rooms of the homes de los que celebran. That involves painting each others faces as calaveras, or skulls, which can take as much time as you want. Marigolds do not grow overnight and stitch themselves into strands, a reminder of this time of year and the bounty of labors. Ofrendas are prepared together by the living for the dead.
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Muertos y Marigolds takes place on Isleta Blvd in South Valley, SW Albuquerque, usually that first weekend of November on Sunday.
The event includes several hours of prelude and activities as attendees pack in, and many vendors offer folk art from local crafters at the park near the Gutiérrez-Hubbell house. Additionally there are food vendors in the parking lot. In the Gutiérrez-Hubbell house are fun activities, workshops, and ofrendas.
The Marigold Parade for 2022 will consist of a walking, non-motorized Procession at the Gutiérrez-Hubbell house in the South Valley. The theme for this year is, “¡Escucha! ¡La Lucha No Es Mañana! What is Your Fight??”
Here are the details from their website:
2022 South Valley Marigold Procession and Celebration
¡Escucha! ¡La Lucha No Es Mañana!
What is Your Fight??
November 6, 2022 1:00PM
Gutiérrez-Hubble House
6029 Isleta Blvd SWIt is basically impossible to drive to this event, you will be parking and walking. Biking is best if possible but dismount for crowds, lock up and walk. Weather is important as any bad weather can make things rough.
More info online at https://muertosymarigolds.org/ and from social media accounts Muertos y Marigolds. There are many workshops leading up to Dia de los Muertos to attend, mostly for the different types of craft art you see.
Not to forget, this day is about remembrance. I post these photos and words in honor of my Grandma, who I am so happy to remember. Here is a picture from perhaps the most fun photo shoot I’ll ever do, with my mom staging and Wynona smiling. Our ofrenda will always have sweet dolls and beautiful desserts for you. Te amos.
Burch street in fall, in Taos, New Mexico
Burch Street in fall in Taos, New Mexico.
Walking down Burch Street early one day during fall years back.
Tall trees with golden leaves line both sides of the street, hanging high over the road, a vanishing point. Their fallen leaves have covered the curbs beneath them leaving golden sidewalks. The yellow stripe down the center of the road is almost the same color as the entire uplifting view.
What an extraordinary October treat a street can be. I walked out to go get some morning coffee at the cafe down the way, but turned right back around and grabbed a camera to point and shoot a vertical panoramic of this tall fall scene.
By Andrew Gatewood. All rights reserved.
“Burch Street in fall” Prints and more
Falling
Falling
Autumn Photography from Andrew Gatewood
The Fall is an incredible time for photography as trees shed their summer’s cover in an incredible blast of golden-hued foliage.
Zozobra
Zozobra
Burning Old Man Gloom in Santa Fe
New Mexicans gather annually on a Friday night in early Autumn to burn the towering ‘Old Man Gloom’ and destroy the troubles and worries of the previous year, in a somewhat silly but symbolically meaningful event for locals.
After nightfall, Zozobra’s enemy, the red-dressed Fire Spirit Dancer, performs an elaborate torch ritual stoking the bogeyman into loudly moaning and flailing about until he bursts with fireworks and ablaze falls to the ground lifeless.
Zozobra is a 50-foot tall effigy constructed of a framework of lumber and chicken wire, covered with cotton fabric and stuffed with paper, including collected written notes containing the problems and hardships of locals. Each year he is outfitted with a unique suit design related to the current year’s event theme.
Originally a fun creation for a private fiesta event in Santa Fe in 1924, ‘The Burning of Will Shuster’s Zozobra’ is now a spectacular annual event attended by over 50,000 people and managed by The Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe.
Old Man Gloom is burned at Fort Marcy Park inf Santa Fe the Friday before Labor Day, beginning a weekend of celebrations in The City Different.
The event includes several hours of prelude and music concerts as attendees pack in, yelling and chanting “BURN HIM!” while growing crowded and ever more impatiently debaucherous. Weather is important as any winds can delay or even cancel the burning.
More info online at https://burnzozobra.com/ and from social media accounts #zozobra.
BURN HIM!!!!
