A graveyard sits above Mi Tributo’s bar with wooden crosses and brightly colored clay skulls known as calaveras. The room is dim with purple lights that wash over the 16-foot brick walls decorated with 9-foot paintings of La Catrina, an icon of Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. “We have a saying in Mexico, ‘Que los muertos nunca mueren,’ the dead never die,” says Joe Meda, who opened the Day of the Dead themed taqueria bar Mi Tributo in downtown Pendleton this March. Meda, who was inspired to build the bar as a shrine to his late father, Manuel, invites his guests to openly converse about family and death. Read more at the link in our bio. 📸: Olivia Wolf #diadelosmuertos #dayofthedead #grief #loss #barsandrestaurants #pendletonoregon #oregon #theoregonian