Lucinda Hutson celebrates life for Day of the Dead

Lucinda Hutson decorates joyfully for Day of the Dead, displaying her postulation of accepted sweetener skulls and skeletons passim her purple location successful Austin’s Rosedale neighborhood.

I visited past week with Cultivating Place podcaster Jennifer Jewell, who was successful municipality to springiness a Garden Spark talk. Lucinda invited america to stock successful the bittersweet joyousness of this Mexican vacation that’s astir remembering loved ones who’ve passed and celebrating their lives.

In the kitchen, Lucinda poured glasses of tequila and chasers of sangrita, and we sipped our drinks successful her colorful surviving room.

Faded roses explicit the sentiments of the season.

Love and peace, reads a framed picture.

Colored foil brings the eyes of sweetener skulls to life.

Gleaming silver, a milagro, and a drawstring of pearls mingle connected a buffet.

One of her Day of the Dead altars features a photograph of her cowboy-hatted dad, beloved feline Sancho Rey, and innumerable skeletons from her postulation of Mexican people art.

In Lucinda’s penning cabin, a brass praying mantis poses amid rose-colored glass.

Above the doorway hangs a representation of Lucinda’s grandma wearing the blouse displayed with arms outstretched.

Lucinda successful her trademark purple, watched implicit by her grandmother’s spirit

Photo: Jennifer Jewell

Thank you, Lucinda, for sharing with maine erstwhile again the Day of the Dead stories and joyousness of your location and garden!

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