Above: A mock wedding is always part of the pre-Lenten Carnaval in San Martin Tilcajete, Mexico
Is everyone on a diet? I think this is the first time that there is not one food post represented in the top 12 posts that you have frequented during the past year.
The following list represents the biannual results of the most-read postcards, with the numbers in parentheses indicating rankings from six months ago when applicable.
- Zilker Park: Founded on a fortune made in ice, 2021 (5)
- Postcard from Mexico City: The Lord of Poison and potent relics, 2017 (6)
- The Madarasz murder mystery: Might Helen haunt Brackenridge Park, 2012 (3)
- A place to seek miracles, 2020 (2)
- Postcard from Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy: History with a horse hanging overhead, 2019 (7)
- Caste discrimination woven into Spanish Colonial art of the Americas, 2022
- Women belt out the blues to help preserve Austin history, 2023
- Postcard from San Martin Tilcajete, Mexico: Chaotic Carnaval ushers in Lent, 2023
- Postcard from Oaxaca, Mexico: ‘Nobodies’ populate walls, 2023
- Please put this song on Tony’s pony and make it ride away. 2010 (11)
- Postcard from Burgos, Spain: Counting on forgiveness at the hour of death, 2023
- Postcard from Oaxaca, Mexico: Santiago’s ‘Migrants’ and protesters haunting MACO, 2023
Above left: Santiago rides above a chapel in the Cathedral of Saint Mary in Burgos, Spain. Above right: Two of Alejandro Santiago’s “migrants” on display in Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Oaxaca, Mexico
Thanks for dropping by, and postcards from our recent sojourn in Sicily will continue to drop in your inbox for quite a while.
Postcards from Barton Springs 