Sometimes the colors are somewhat startling, describing what the Mexican writer Octavio Paz called "the fiesta of the object."
The Mexican markets spill over with color, fastidiously hand painted ceramics with colors freely combined.
This beach vendor's arrangement of multicolored candy is a sheer pleasure to look at.
This beautifully designed arrangement of roses and miniature daisies are elegant in their simplicity.
This home altar is a piece of art work with the combinations of color and textures.
Richly colored, hand painted talavera items such as this bathroom sink, from Delores Hidalgo
The Mexican walls tend to be variously colored and expressions of the owner, sometimes leaving us with the urge to see inside. I love the magenta combined with yellow and the blue border to guard against evil spirits.
The hand painted table top is almost too delicate and beautiful to use. The hand blown glass light fixture is colorful and playful, made in Tonala. 
I love this altar with strings of garlic, peppers, milagros, crosses, sacred hearts, fruit and candles.
Windows painted over glass in a restaurant, to provide privacy and a division from the other side are fun, whimsical and colorful. Imaginative!
Light arrangement from Origines in Tlaquepaque, colorful against the terra-cota wash walls.The bed and breakfast, Rosa Morado, in Tlaquepaque is one half of an old hacienda, probably 200 years old. The inside walls have allowed traces of the old color and are washed in an ocher and rosa Mexicana.
Chile en Nogada, one of the most colorful dishes prepared in Mexico, quite distinct with the walnut sauce and pomegranates, which make it a seasonal dish.
Nichos, sometimes found in the most unlikely places offer a surprise. Fiestas seeped in tradition and color. 
Virgin De Guadalupe altar with all hand made paper flowers, a riot of color surrounding the Virgin.The Galiano (also called African Tulip) tree is so colorful loaded with brilliant orange-red flowers.
Ginger flowers growing wild against a jungle background.
The brilliant colors of the bougainvillea spill over in every corner of our world here.
Last, the postre (dessert), so full of color, a piece of art. Wouldn't you like to walk by and take a swipe of the frosting and lick your finger. I saw a little guy about four years old do that.
"De Colores" (of colors) is a tradional folk song that is well known throughout the Spanish-speaking world. The song was brought to the Americas from Spain during the 16th century.
The words of the song are an expression of joy and a celebration of all creation with it's many bright colors.
De colores, de colores
Se visten los campos en la primavera.
De colores, de colores
Son los pajaritos que vienen de afuera.
De Colores, de colores
Es el arco iris que vemos lucir.
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi.
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi.
De colores, de colores
Brillantes y finos se viste la aurora.
De colores, de colores
Son los mil reflejos que el sol atesora.
De colores, de colores
Se viste el diamante que vemos lucir.
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi.
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi.
In colors, in colors
The fields are dressed in the spring.
In colors, in colors
Are the little birds that come from the outside.
In colors, in colors
Is the rainbow that we see shining.
And that is why I love
The great loves of many colors.
And that is why I love
The great loves of many colors.
In colors, in colors
Brillant and delicate is dressed the dawn.
In colors, in colors
And the thousand gleams the sun treasures.
In colors, in colors
Is dressed the diamond we see shining.
And that is why I love
The great loves of many colors,
And that is why I love
The great loves of many colors.
These four versus are the most commonly used, even though dozens of other vesus are known to exist. De Colores has been recorded by many different artists but my favorite is by Nana Mouskouri.
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