Last night I attempted to upload some photos from our rainy day here yesterday, and they wouldn’t cooperate. Here goes (again):

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during one of yesterday morning's downpours, I took shelter under the awning of this pastry shop; reflected in the window is Adriano: the street where the carriages will line up for next Sunday's exhibition in the bullring

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… and this is the front entrance of the bullring; when next Sunday rolls around, we don’t want to see any umbrellas!

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Raimundo (on the left) and members of his family, getting ready for their Good Friday paso procession; sadly, their procession (as all others yesterday) was cancelled because of the rain, but normally it would take about ten hours to process through the streets with the paso, from their home church to the cathedral and back again

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on Thursday evening, I was fortunate to be able to see this paso up close (inside a dark, incense-filled church) ...

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... and a bit closer; and, yes, those are all real candles