The eyes have it!

Views from Greenwich Park in monochrome

Aubergines, a humble Autumn vegetable/fruit, Chinese lanterns and a mauve vase....

The image came to me while listening to Peter Bradley Adams' song "Who else could I be..." I photographed the dead fox by the side of the road on my walk back home.

Inevitably it is necessary to give a historical perspective of this yearly festival that takes place in the city of La Paz, Bolivia in the first week of June. The celebration transforms and stimulates the social life of La Paz every year, emanating from a particular way of understanding and living Andean Catholicism. The Parade begins with a procession through the western part of the city. This procession is central to the event, involving 40,000 devotees who dance and sing in an offering to the patron saint. The dance has a sacred significance for the sixty-nine fraternities involved, which are greeted in the streets in a euphoric atmosphere where the music of 7,000 musicians resonates. It is so owe inspiring that it is rightfully a UNESCO Wold Heritage event (Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity). The image venerated with dance and music is believed to have arrived in the city at the founding of the convent of the Mothers of the Sacred Conception on the 8th of December 1663,

"That there must be some epiphany that makes it possible for even the dullest  and most deluded of us to accept not only  what is unacceptable but unimaginable. The absolute terminus of the world. Which will not wonder even for the briefest second what might have become of us." Cormac McArthy

Around Lullingstone, Kent

Incubus...

Nature Morte, naturaleza muerta, dead nature literally... Continuing with the grammar of Dynamic Symmetry: root 2 overlapping

Although there are now many other cemeteries around the city of La Paz, Cementerio Central is the iconic place open to all and there seems to be a space for everyone in spite of the passage of time.