Geraniums grow in incredible profusion in the Canaries. FOr a week before
Corpus Christi, every garden and roadside
hedge yields its tithe of these blooms, other flowers are gathered and assorted according to color.
On the day of the procession the patio of the
town hall in la laguna is turned into as scented clearinghouse of blossoms. Children
begin arriving before dawn with hadn-woven baskets and boxes of flowers.
These men strip petals from bloosons piled on the floow. Women perform the
same task at long tables. As each basket is filled with a particular color, waiting children wuch is
to the streets, where other villagers arrange the petals, Geranium villager basket.
