Day of the Dead

El Día de los Difuntos is, strictly speaking, All Soul's Day, 2 November, when the souls of the dead may communicate with the living; the festival usually includes 1 November—All Saints Day. The day is celebrated by candlelit processions and all-night vigils in cemeteries; offerings of food and flowers for the dead; parades and dances with death-masks, skeletons and skulls; and ingeniously-wrought chocolate and candy animals, skulls, skeletons and funeral-wagons.
His face covered by a wide hat, he was lying peacefully on his back with his arms stretched out toward this wayside cross – UTV, 241.

Such wayside crosses afford a stopping place to pray for the continuing safety of the journey; some mark the place of burial for those who have died along the way.

Within the Borda Gardens, on the Day of the Dead. The sign indeed reads: ¿LE GUSTA ESTE JARDIN / QUE ES SUYO? / ¡EVITE QUE SUS HIJOS LO DESTRUYAN!; but this was placed there (c. 1990) as a passing tribute to Lowry. Courtesy of Elizabeth Douglas.
Detail of the Rivera above
Calaveras
Cemeteries decorated for the Day of the Dead