My regular readers know that every year I paint a picture which I use for my Christmas card. By summer of this year, I had finished the painting, found someone to print the cards, and had them all made out. Since the Mexican postal service is notoriously slow and unreliable, I did not want to send them from here. When I traveled to Europe in September, I took the cards for my Swiss cousins with me. The wife of one of my cousins kindly offered to put them in the mail before Christmas. In October, when I went to Ohio, I took the rest of the cards, went to the post office for stamps, and gave them to a high school friend. She sent them out the day before Thanksgiving. My reputation remained intact... mine was the first Christmas card that most people received.
Since everyone has received their card by now, it is safe to show you the painting that I used this year...
Early this year, a friend of Alejandro had sent him a photo that he had taken of the dormant volcano Iztaccíhuatl. The mountain is located 43 miles to the southeast of Mexico City. There had just been a heavy rain here in the city, and the precipitation at the mountain's elevation of over 17,000 feet had fallen as snow. The photo of the snow-covered peak emerging amidst the clouds was very dramatic. I decided to use it as the basis for my Christmas painting.
To all my readers, best wishes for a very merry Christmas!
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