Fiesta San Antonio

It's Fiesta time in San Antonio! Fiesta San Antonio is a spring festival held annually since the late 19th century. The festival began as a single event to honor the memory of the battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto. In 1891 local women decorated carriages, baby buggies and bicycles with live flowers, met in front of the Alamo, and threw the blossoms at one another. That was the first Battle of Flowers Parade, which later became an annual event. Today there are more than 100 Fiesta events including three major parades, cultural & musical events, and a carnival. Fiesta San Antonio . . . our extravagant 11-day citywide party! Along with Fiesta, we are also celebrating our Spurs basketball team being in the NBA playoffs . . . definitely a citywide party atmosphere currently in San Antonio.

For anyone not familiar with cascarones shown in the photo . . . they are decorated, confetti-filled eggshells crushed over a person's head to shower him or her with confetti. They are prominent here in San Antonio during our Fiesta time and also during Easter time.

[ShirleyB]

Lovely colourful shot and interesting information

[Diane]

Oh sound like such fun, great capture of the cascarones. Great shot.

[Hiro]

What beautiful colours and like the reflections too.

[Helen Jane]

This is such a wonderful capture with the decorative colour in the back, the reflections in the foreground and those wonderfully bright eggs. I never knew about the festival but I have visited San Antonio - whilst visiting friends in Texas many years ago. Really lovely Gayle.

[gloria jones]

Excellent image...great colors, shapes, lighting

[Milanie]

Love this - terrific focusing and wonderful colors everywhere. Fav

[Shy Abel]

neat idea! love all the color and the reflections are great!

[Faye Turner]

Wonderful colours and a great capture! Fav

[Jo]

Love the colors - great capture

[Kate Goring]

Such a happy colourful shot. FAv.

[Richard]

How fun and colorful. We need to go one year. My wife told me how decorated everything is on the Riverwalk right now when she was there this past weekend. Fav!

[Dyan Stevens]

What a fun colorful image and wonderful tradition!

[Gayle]

@shirleybankfarm Thank you so much for commenting, Shirley! :-)

[Gayle]

@dianeburns Thanks so much for your comment and fav, Diane! :-)

[Gayle]

@hiro Thank you, Hiro! I appreciate your comment and fav! :-)

[Gayle]

@helenhall Thank you for your comment and fav, Helen! How wonderful that you visited Texas and San Antonio! I hope to one day visit your neck of the woods! :-)

[Gayle]

@seattlite Thank you, Gloria! I appreciate your comment and fav! :-)

[Gayle]

@milaniet Thanks so much for your comment and fav, Milanie! Much appreciated! :-)

[Gayle]

@shylaine3304 Thank you, Erika! I appreciate your comment and fav! :-)

[Gayle]

@fayefaye Thanks so much for your comment and fav, Faye! :-)

[Gayle]

@jo38 Thanks so much for commenting, Jo! :-)

[Gayle]

@kategoring Thanks so much for your comment and fav, Kate! Much appreciated! :-)

[Gayle]

@woodlandsphotog Thank you, Richard! I appreciate your comment and fav! I hope your wife had a good time here in San Antonio last weekend! :-)

[Gayle]

@dyanstevens Thanks so much for commenting, Dyan! :-)

[Karen]

Really love the shot! Great vibrant fiesta colours - tells the story! Fav

[Dawn]

cool shot

[~*~ Jo ~*~]

Lovely capture and comp

[Jenfurj]

What wonderful, colourful, photo. Thank you for the history. How do they get the confetti into the empty egg shell?

[Paula]

Interesting!

[Merrelyn]

This is beautiful Gayle, gorgeous colours and reflections, lovely bokeh and interesting info. Thanks for sharing :)

[John Falconer]

Fabulous idea. Great shot.

[Catherine P]

Love all the colours and sense of depth

[Leslie]

very cool

[Gayle]

@karens54 Thanks so much for your comment and fav, Karen! :-)

[Gayle]

@dawnee Thank you very much for commenting! :-)

[Gayle]

@ziggy77 Thank you, Jo! I appreciate your comment and fav! :-)

[Gayle]

@365projectorgjenfurj Thanks so much for your comment and fav, Jen! Usually the opening is large enough to drop the confetti in by hand but I have used a small piece of paper rolled up like a funnel if the opening was extra small. :-)

[Gayle]

@paulavdmerwe Thanks so much for commenting, Paula! :-)

[Gayle]

@merrelyn Thank you, Merrelyn! I appreciate your comment and fav! :-)

[Gayle]

@johnfalconer Thanks so much for viewing and commenting, John! Much appreciated! :-)

[Gayle]

@cmp Thanks so much for your comment, Catherine! :-)

[Gayle]

@lesip Thanks so much for your comment and fav, Leslie! Much appreciated! :-)

[Stephanie Swift]

Wonderful colour and dof.

[Gayle]

@tristansmum Thanks so much for viewing and commenting, Stephanie! :-)

[Issi Bannerman]

Great shot and super information on the San Antonia Fiesta. I never knew about that.

[Gayle]

@jamibann Thank you, Issi! I appreciate you going back to view this photo and comment! :-)

[Kim]

The colors are beautiful. Would love to visit San Antonio one of the days. I have relatives that live there.

[Gayle]

@genealogygenie Thank you so much for your comment and fav, Kim! Definitely let me know when you visit San Antonio . . . I would love to meet a fellow 365er! :-)