Alicorns* in the arts & crafts market
watercolour and crayon sketch
©2025 Charlene Brown
In addition to cool inner courtyard gardens, many of the restaurants in San Miguel have umbrella-shaded rooftop dining areas from which you can see the flower-framed doorways and balconies, market stalls, and jacaranda forests leading up to the cathedral-like parroquia (parish church) de San Miguel Arcángel.
*The winged unicorn or alicorn is my favourite species of alebrije, the brightly colored, fantastical creatures of Mexican folk art. In case you didn’t spot them right away… There are three alicorns under the lace-trimmed white umbrella in the centre foreground of this watercolour sketch.
