Tour of Homes and Gardens

Every Sunday the Biblioteca (library) hosts a home and garden tour showcasing a few local San Miguel homes. This is basically a fundraiser for the library but at the same time you get to see some pretty interesting homes around town. When we arrived, the Mariachi band was playing and a few local artisans were selling crafts. You can then have some coffee in the cafe and hang out for a while until the tour begins at 12:00.

We all boarded buses and headed off to a neighborhood called Los Balcones which is high on hill on the edge of town. All homes in this part of town have the most amazing views but the walk to town is only for fitness junkies. Literally, some of the roads are so steep that it makes you nervous just to look down them. We saw  some amazing houses...1 contemporary one that we didn't like but 2 that were wonderful. The tile work is so beautiful here. Hand-painted in the most glorious colors. Also, the flowers, fountains, and gardens are spectacular. Mom, Barbara, and I went on the tour and had such a lovely time trying to decide which house we would buy! Ha!










This is one of the doors leading into the house. The flowers just grow everywhere and are so beautiful.

Here is Mom and me on one of the terraces of a house overlooking San Miguel.













Look at this bathroom tile! The entire bathroom including the tub were done this way. Do you think we could take some home with us? Our VT homes could use this kind of color and fun in their houses!

This is a cactus garden in the second house we went to. No tending this garden and no watering!

 A small walkway on the side of a house. I love the yellow of the house with the purple flowers.

Another view into town. The city aquifer is in the distance but you can't see it that well in this picture.