Our dinner menu - 3 courses for $18
The hanging over the bed is embroidered
They lit the fireplace for us before we went to bed - lovely
Tin and tiles
Close up of "cut out" picture next to sink
View of the church and square from our balcony
Reading Barbara Kingsolver's book on Mexico "The Lacuna"
Looking down from our balcony to the musical fountain
A painting on bark of a village wedding
Another - intricate and beautiful
A happy couple
Was she stood up? Typical "Day of the Dead" statue
Typical Mexican folk doll
I want to try weaving something like this in my weaving class
Just outside our room - We heard them in the morning as we woke up
They were kissing
Along the hallway
Painted leather - table leather also
Looking towards our room across the dining room court yard
From in front of our room
Red roses for Valentines - there were also roses in our room and a long stem red rose waiting for us on our bed.
Hallway fireplace and sitting area
Diego Rivera and Frida dolls
First of many beautiful pottery statues made in Oaxaca
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The "Queen" of Mexico - Our Lady of Guadalupe (2 feet tall)
A folk art cross
Painted tiles - these were built into the wall and the frame was painted - an old silver mine
Silver mine ouside of town
View of the town
The bath room off the court yard
The sink!!
Leading to the gardens
Into the gardens
The cactus garden
Flowering cactus - barrel cactus
Flowering succulent
Succulents and cactus
Back garden wall
Garden sculptures - do you see the rabbit?
Lizard sculpture on the garden wall
Armadillo
Bird and snake fountain
Beautiful plant holders
Succulents
An old silver scale
Pounded iron cactus statue - 10 feet
detail
See the gecko?
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Growing in one of the ruins in town
Cacti out at St Brigida mine - cholla
Pickly pear - nopale - people eat the pads in soups and salads
Maguey - a type of Agave - makes pulque and mescal
This is the "flower" of the maguey - looks like a giant asparagus - mine smelter in distance
Smelter at St Brigida - built by Jesuits in mid 1500's
Spanish fort from 16th century - Pozos was on the route from Mexico City to the North
Smelters - 200 meters long with more than 30 ovens
Inside view of ovens
caved-in mine shafts
Who knows how deep?????
A huge cactus in the ruins
5 Senores (5 Gentlemen) Silver mine - now used as an amphitheater
ancient retaining wall
