41.   Inside the chapel, Griffith Joyner was resplendent in a silk top decorated with bright flowers.

42.   It is a time when pre-Hispanic Indian rites of honoring ancestors with altars of bright flowers or food offerings of tortillas and pastries are combined with Christian traditions.

43.   Many of the mourners Sunday came with their families, with young children in tow and carrying bright flowers.

44.   The bright flowers of many have fallen away, a sign that harvest time is imminent.

45.   The bright orange flowers are the calendula.

46.   The Gyspies who sold bright flowers next door disappeared, leaving illegal money changers doing virtually the only commerce.

47.   The Gyspies who sold bright flowers next to the hotel disappeared, leaving illegal money changers doing virtually the only commerce.

48.   But it was less successful against bright flowers, where -- to the human eye -- the arachnids would have been easily spotted.