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Floral Display
Alejandro sent me a photo which was sent to him by someone else. It is an aerial view of Mexico City's main plaza, the Zócalo, as it appears during this holiday season.
In past years, much of the vast plaza has been filled with a large ice-skating rink. It was free to the public, and certainly a cool experience for the capital's residents. However it was an ugly structure which detracted from the vistas in Mexico's City's historic center. This year the skating rink has been placed in a different location near the Monument to the Revolution, and a floral display with thousands of poinsettias has been placed on the Zócalo. (The poinsettia, a flower native to Mexico, is called the "flor de Nochebuena" in Spanish... the Christmas Eve flower. It was introduced to the United States in 1825 by Joel Poinsett, the first U.S. diplomat to Mexico.)
It appears that the design is an Aztec motif of an eagle, a bird which was sacred to the Aztecs, and which is today on the coat of arms and the flag of Mexico. I suspect that when you are standing on the plaza, you cannot appreciate the image that has been created with the flowers. However, the enormous quantity of poinsettias is surely an impressive sight and a big improvement over the unsightly skating rink that used to be there.
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