Today, the truck arrived, the wheelbarrows were loaded, and the gardening crew began filling the flower beds of Oaxaca’s zócalo…
Navidad is coming to Oaxaca!
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View From Casita Colibrí 
Poinsettias never meant much to me, and I thought it so strange that my Mom always had to have some around the house at Christmas.
But after vacationing in Oaxaca one December….. I need to have the house overflowing with them during the holidays! Funny, eh?
And I never knew that they could grow to tree size! That blew me away.
I wish that I was there right now. Or maybe in a few weeks….. we left the day before the ‘Night of the Radishes’ (I hadn’t heard about it, otherwise I might have booked our flight home a few days later and done Christmas with the kids a bit late).
This will be my first Noche de Rabanos… have usually gone up to the US for Christmas. Can’t wait!
AHHH YES! The Poinsettias are back in town/Oaxaca! Do they actually plant them in the soil – or just line up the pots? I guess I never checked closely.
In central Mexico they somehow dye the white ones and make all sort of amazing colors – like purple, orange, yellow, etc….you name it. I guess they grow like weeds many places! Feliz Navidad coming soon.
They dye them??? Sounds like calla lilies in el norte these days!