It's May

Today is the first of May, which is a legal holiday in Mexico.  As in many countries, today is the equivalent of Labor Day in the U.S.

My calendar, which I had custom-made with photos that I have taken of archaeological sites in Mexico, has this picture for May...

Uxmal is one of the most beautiful Mayan sites in the Yucatan Peninsula.  I have visited it a number of times.  (In fact, when I have played tour guide for friends and family in Mérida, Uxmal has always been a "must see" excursion.)

This structure is all that remains of a large temple quadrangle which was probably one of the oldest buildings at Uxmal.  The open-work of the decorative roof combs would have been covered with stucco decorations and painted.  It reminded the Spaniards of a dovecote, a structure for housing doves or pigeons, and it was they who gave this building its fanciful name.