Gayle Brennan Spencer – sending random thoughts to and from South Austin
Still taking photos of random artistic encounters on walls around Oaxaca.
One of these murals, the featured one by Kelly Peyton, was installed only this week. Read her blog here.
To view more street art, visit an earlier post….
Sunset topped the fireworks shooting off soon after the natural beauty displayed on this, the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi, in Oaxaca.
The age of some of the colonial buildings in Oaxaca is difficult to comprehend.
While the project took decades to complete, brothers of the Dominican order began the construction of the Santo Domingo Church and its adjoining monastery in the 1570s. The monastery houses the Museum of Oaxacan Cultures, an extensive collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts, colonial religious sculpture and historical exhibits, while the walled grounds enclose the city’s Ethnobotanic Garden.
Postcards from Barton Springs 