The 8th is the day of the “Virgen de los Milagros” or the Virgin of the Miracles, the town’s patron saint and so the week is filled with events in anticipation of the big day. Today people are gathered to watch the procession from the farmers and the ranchers. The streets are closed and filled with every tractor and horse for miles. Every ranch near the town is represented with offerings to the local church. Tractors are filled with people and food in hopes that their generosity will bring abundance to their annual harvest. Tractors, horses and people are greeted at the church’s entrance by the town’s priest who is sprinkling holy water on all of them as a blessing for their offerings. The holy water is meant to protect them all from the evil that could arrive in the form of a bad harvest, a lazy horse or a broken tractor. I want to get close enough to get some of that holy water myself in hopes that the evil that has followed me for so long will leave and let me get back home. But I cant, the festivity is meant for those with four legs and four wheels and I stand on the side of the street watching the beautiful gesture.
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