La Parroquia Church, San Miguel de Allende

Join Me For A Magical Walk Through San Miguel de Allende

Magic is the energy I feel each day when I awake in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.  Suspended in time is what I feel when I walk through San Miguel de Allende’s cobblestone streets.  The days seem to end before they even began.

You have filled my senses to the brim during your sunlit days.  The sound of church bells fills my ears mixed with the crackle of thunder and fireworks being shot through your cannons. The smell of your chilies mingled with lavender and mint from your gardens stirs me.

I am seduced with the beauty of your doorways.  Each doorway the hues of  paprika, mustard, and naranja, burning into my mind filling it with ideas for paintings, making me want to create art from you and for you.  I run my fingers along your textured walls.  I touch my cheek to your cool stones. I cannot help it.

Your Spanish words fill my ears, and leave my tongue and sound beautiful and foreign and exotic. I taste your chiles en nogada, your sweet, warm cajeta churros,  your spice, the earth in your moles, and I remember what it is like to be a child. A child when everything is new again and unexplored.  San Miguel de Allende, you have made me curious again, and all I want to do is skip through your streets and share your beauty with the world.

Fallen flowers guiding my way

Flowers in San Miguel de Allende

Beautiful street art in the artist neighborhood of Guadalupe

Street Art in San Miguel de Allende

Beautiful Door Handle

Door knocker in San Miguel de Allende

Fiesta Flags called Papel Picado

Papel Picado, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Parroquia Church in San Miguel de Allende

Parroquia Church in San Miguel de Allende

 Woman carrying her laundry

Woman carrying her laundry

Colorful San Miguel de Allende doorway

Colorful San Miguel de Allende doorway

Following the Music

Following the Music

Working Burros

Working Burros

 Wooden Doorway of Dreams

Wooden Doorway of Dreams

 An Afternoon Cajeta Churro Break At San Agustin

An Afternoon Churro Break At San Agustin

Walking Home

Walking Home in San Miguel de Allende

Fountain of reflection

Fountain of reflection, San Miguel de Allende

 Archangel Michael Celebration

Archangel Michael Celebration, San Miguel de Allende

 Fiesta!

Fiesta in San Miguel de Allende

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