Wednesday is market day in San Agustin, Etla, a village in an agricultural valley about 15 miles north of Oaxaca. We arrived before ten and had a couple hours leisurely strolling the stalls. I sampled smoked fish, was offered rat poison (mataratas) multiple times, and many of us headed to the food section for a mid morning breakfast. I passed up the visceras stand for a barbacoa, slow cooked lamb in broth. It was delicious! ![]() On our way out, I stopped and mentioned to this woman that her dolls were pretty scary. She laughed and said, "Yes, they are the nephews of Chucky!" What a great sense of humor! ![]() From the market, we headed up into the mountains to the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín. C.A.S.A. was founded by the Mexican painter, Francisco Toledo in 2006 in a building that had been an abandoned textile factory. We watched a demonstration on the process of taking plants and making paper, then spent an hour in the calm beauty of the C.A.S.A. It was a great day.
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