So on Memorial Day we were with some friends visiting Mission San Juan Capistrano and Mission Espada. At Mission Espada, we pulled up just as some people were organizing for a ceremony with drums, incense and elaborate feathered costumes. They gathered beside the parking lot and then walked together to the front of the main entrance of the Mission building, where they chanted and turned together in a prescribed pattern. Then at some point, a classically dressed monk walked by the group of what looked like some kind of Aztec-influenced Native Americans. No, this wasn't a staged show at Disneyland. It was Texas, U.S.A. Sometimes in life, you just hush up and watch.
* photo by Dave Rogers
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