Day of the Dead

This national holiday honors the dead by buying candles and flowers and placing them at the grave sites. Flowers are sold for weeks preceeding the Day and hundreds of people are seen at the various cemeteries throughout the country. These pictures. at a cemetery near the Branch show one of the flower/candle kiosks on the Sunday before the holiday. The candle photo was taken at the "Uprising" monument where a mass of candles are placed as the people pay tribute to the movement which set the stage for great change in the years ahead. It was a most beautiful site and as we strolled through the cemetery in our Church clothes with our LDS name tags, we were looked at by nearly everyone who, no doubt were wondering why these 'non-catholics' were here. But we made it without incident and were glad we had the opportunity to see all of this.