A short time after I took the photo in yesterday's post, the body of Our Lady of Artica was ablaze. A couple of minutes later the arm pennants collapsed all at once and the head became a torch. In a little while the whole structure crumbled to the wild cheers of the crowd. Bands returned to the stages and people danced into the night.
Artica always ends on Sunday night with the burning of the wooden effigy of Our Lady of Artica. Although I have hundreds of pictures from this weekend I have to cut to the big finale for the sheer drama of it. The structure is perhaps 10 meters high. It was a perfectly clear night and we wondered what the passengers in the planes flying overhead thought when they looked out the window.
Lots more of this to come. Ya know, there's a lot going on in this town if you know where to look.
