A caboodle of critters will roll for Olvera Street’s ‘Blessing of the Animals’
While Easter Day may frequently feature bunnies and chicks, specifically the little stuffed toys that festively fill the baskets awaiting eager kids, the day before Easter at Olvera Street is very much about bunnies and chicks and dogs and snakes and cows and parakeets and lizards and an energetic assortment of colorful critters.
For that is when the Blessing of the Animals ebulliently occurs, a community-sweet celebration that will mark its centennial in four short years.
The day-before-Easter tradition has a few touchstones that returning participants and observers can look forward to: Animals in attendance will be dressed for the occasion, or at least several will, with flowers, bonnets, and other eye-catching accessories adding to the spring spirit.