Taxco de Alarcon México 
"Dia de los Muertos" - Day of the Dead "Ofrenda" Offering - In a street near the center of Taxco de Alarcon, México
The Day of the Dead is an important national holiday, when Mexican people make colorful homage to dead family members.
The smoking saumerio of copali gum, the same as in the ancestor Toltec culture.
A pattern of tejocote fruit, xempoaxochitl flowers, bread, a bugle, and a drum.
These are all traditional ofrendas in the Zocalo by students and people of Taxco.
An ofrenda for a Prepa 4 teacher who died in the past year; you see his typewriter.
The historic Casa Borda is in the background of the Zocalo of Taxco
Here is the ofrenda for a silver miner who lost his life in the past year
Bread and fruit and flowers and what the person liked to eat and drink
Ceramic cups and dishes, votif candles and candy skulls.
Bread, and red velvet flowers, beer, and the miner's favorite tequila.
In front of the Santa Prisca Church, ofrenda for Pope John Paul II who died in the past year.
The great Mexican artist Victor Segura left us and the rest of the world this year.
Victor Hugo Segura, artist and designer of more than a hundred pieces of Artcamp jewelry.
Ceramic water jugs, xempoaxocitl flowers, guayabas, bananas, his "Caña Viejo" aguardiente..