Yesterday was the annual procession of cowboys in our little town of Sobradinho, Bahia. It's a Catholic tradition. Our town has three Catholic chapels, one in each of our three neighborhoods. The parade starts at the far end of our linear town at the first church and heads down the main avenue with all the cowboys on horseback following the statute of the Virgin Mary on donkey drawn cart. They make their way to the main church in the far neighborhood where all the cowboys participate in a special mass to bless their year. Regardless of the religious connotations, the parade is lovely to see. All types of horses and all types of "cowboys" big and small. Some years there is even a man riding on a old Zebu bull. Sadly this year the bull did not make his appearance. We see real, live cowboys in their full leather outfits at least once a week riding down the avenues of our town, in the fields near our house herding cattle and goats ba...
Just a mama trying to bloom where she is planted in the dry Northeast of Brazil.