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,

When visiting Goodnesstone Park and Gardens in Kent, I found this late blooming magnolia

While looking through old images I found this one that I had rejected at the time, but now it appeals to me...

A dead cactus leaf brought back from Lanzarote and a roof slate

Views from Greenwich Park in monochrome

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

Returning to that walk between Kingsdown to Dover with the sea on the left and the land on the right...

I have walked over Deptford creek many times but just this once I saw something else superimposed on its reality...