Saturday, August 7, 2010

The Full Gamut in San Ignacio



 

CEMETERY DE LA LAGUNA


   

FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE LAGOON


If you look back there on the upper left hand side of the picture of the cemetery, there's the edge of a black building.  That's one of the two very small chapels built in the name of one of the lagoon's deceased.  That particular one honors a young 15 year old boy who died of leukemia after a doctor misdiagnosed his throat problem and gave him four unsuccessful doses of anti-biotics.  His "casita" has a wooden door that swings open and closed with the wind.  I opened the door yesterday to find a small diamond- back rattlesnake just inside, stretched against the wall, its tongue flitting away. I returned today to the cemetery at midday, opened the door, and there the snake was, in the exact same place, curled up sleeping.












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