Sugar skulls are like the chocolate easter egg of the Day of the DeadJosé Guadalupe Posada's famous Catrina figure has become the icon for Day of the Dead celebrationsA depiction of Catrina on a bakery windowAnother rendition of CartinaSkeletons abound!This is the time of year when grave sites are cleaned and decoratedPeople build altars to remember and celebrate the lives of their deceased loved onesAnother altarYet another altarA garden in MoreliaThe cathedral in MoreliaOn the roadGetting some tamales in NahuatzenCycling up the road rising out of SevinaAxe formed wood sculpturesA small town churchZirahuen lakeThe road to Santa ClaraWorking with copper in Santa Clara del CobreLago de PatzcuaroTemplo del Sagrario in PatzcuaroA typical Patzcuaro streetThe Vasco de Quiroga was well loved hereAvocados! This is where they come from!A cemateryParroquía de San Fransisco in UruapanJamming in the food court marketOne of many waterfalls in the national park within Uruapan. The natural beauty in this park helped inspire the Purepecha name Uruapan which means 'a time when a plant bears flowers and fruit simultaneously', or 'eternal spring'One way to explore Paricutín volcano is by horse.Volcán Paricutín errupted out of a cornfield in 1943 and continued to grow until 1952. The lava gradually flowed out to cover 20-sq-km including 2 villages. No one was hurt.You can still see gentle wisps of steam rising out of fissures around the inside of the crater.The only remaining visible trace of San Juan Parangaricutiro and San Salvador Paricutín, two villages engulfed by solidified black lava, is the top of San Juan's church.Chatting in the main square in Los Reyes de SalgadoFields of agave azul... this will one day all be tequila!A Purepecha woman walks down the road after a trip to the marketA celebration in TinguindínTraditional dressInside the church in TinguindínThe gothic Catedral Inconclusa (unfinished cathedral) in Zamora. Started in 1898, it suffered a major setback with the Mexican revolution of 1910. Work has now started to finish itInside Zamora's Catedral InconclusaSome of the beautiful stained glass in the cathedralYou take the highroad...A view of Lago de Patzcuaro from high aboveA mask in the making in the workshop of Tocuaro's most famous mask maker, Juan Orta Castillo. These are some of Mexico's finest masksSome finished masks hang on the wallA huge wood carvingBiblioteca Gertrudis Bocanegra, once a church, now a library.Las Yácatas, Purépecha ruins in Tzintzuntzan (which in Purepecha means Place of Hummingbirds)The island of Janitzio in Lago de Patzcuaro
