It bog­gles the mind how much bet­ter sugar and choco­late can get, but make them into amaz­ing skulls and other dec­o­ra­tions and there you have it. The ofren­das, or offer­ings for the day of the dead altars can be pic­tures, food, flow­ers, and many sym­bolic items. The pic­tures that I took, mostly in the mar­kets, show offer­ings gen­er­ally made of pressed sugar and then dec­o­rated. The items ranged from the most com­mon skulls, coffins and skele­tons to elab­o­rate minia­ture food items, like tiny plates of chicken, mole, and rice or bas­kets full of pas­tries. Late in the after­noons, the bees were happy to find the sug­ary items, and I was even hap­pier to pho­to­graph them.

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