It is December, I know, but I have to show you my May queen, who I finally captured in all her green glory this afternoon. It is the first time she has rewarded me with a blog-worthy photo. Of course she may not be a May queen at all, but that is how I see her, with her virginal white robe sprinkled with flowers, rings on her fingers and rippling headdress topped with a starry crown. All in the colours of earth and trees, clouds and sky. She speaks of abundance and new growth – new life, I suppose, in the context of a cemetery window.

The stained glass is signed by A Estruch, who came to Buenos Aires from Barcelona a hundred years ago. He also created the window featured in my Jesus stopping the traffic. I keep happening upon his work in Recoleta Cemetery, and yesterday was photographing an exquisite pre-Raphaelite angel door at a local church when my eyes dropped to the bottom of the stained glass panel to see the name Estruch. I feel a bit of research coming on…