🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING:

Forests within Mexico City

A hummingbird and Popocatepetl at dawn, photographed in the Valley of Morelos

Mictlantecuhtli, Mexica lord of the underworld.
Souls of those who died in ways that did not call them to paradise went to Mictlan. They traveled through nine hells for four years, facing dangerous challenges at each stage. Once they reached Mictlantecuhtli, they disappeared forever.

In my Mexico City neighborhood in the heart of the urban sprawl this humble enclosed micro garden has become a haven for butterflies, hummingbirds and other pollinators

Puppet theater craftsmen,
Sierra Mixe, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1980. 📷: Nacho López (1923–1986)

Peyote (Lophophora williamsii) is a small thornless cactus that grows in Northern Mexico and the Southwestern US. It is sacred to the Wixāritari peoples of Northern Mexico and the US. Please avoid drug tourism, and leave any specimens you find in place.

I couldn’t sleep so I thought I’d make some music instead

Well this is heartbreaking

“In life we learn 
We grow 
We discover 
We write 
We erase
And write again 
We weave
We unravel 
And we weave again 
The day I learnt that the only thing I take with me is what I live, then I began to live that which I wish to take”

Purépecha traditional poem, MEXICA TEAHUI

A forest is the sanest sanctuary. We must protect them at all costs. Desierto de los Leones National Park, Mexico City

Hartweg’s Pine (right) and Oyamel (left) are but two conifers that are endemic to the highlands of Central Mexico, rarely found beneath 3,000 m. Oyamel is critical for the survival of migratory Monarch butterflies
📷: me

Humanity seems intent on pursuing its own destruction. Death and The Fool , from BnF, Fr. 995, Danse Macabre , ca. 1500 - 1510

An interesting portrait from 1914 ofJames Lawton, John Pershing, Pancho Villa and Álvaro Obregón. They would soon all be facing off on the battlefield, with Pershing spearheading the invasion of Mexico in 1916

Found almost everywhere, the morning glory in Mexico often goes by its original Nahuatl name of ololiuqui