Today is All Souls' Day, a day set aside to remember and pray for the dead. It is also Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a holiday which celebrates the dead by leaving gifts and food at their gravesites, and very popular in Mexico as well as Colorado. Some people celebrate this day by painting their faces with skull imagery, and others dress up as "La Calavera Catrina," a skelton dressed in fancy clothing. Even though Dia de los Muertos officially ends on November 2nd, here in Denver there will be a celebration at the Museo de las Americas in the Santa Fe Arts District during the First Friday Art Walk this week, and also a parade down Santa Fe Drive, as well as a Day of the Dead Festival in Civic Center Park, on Saturday. Who says Denver is still a boring old cow town, although the National Western Stock Show is only a little over two months away. But, of course, I digress. The photograph above, by the way, I took on this most recent Halloween at Riverside Cemetery, established in 1876, where some of the people buried there enjoy taking a little stroll around the grounds on that day, and don't mind posing for a portrait.
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