I took these pics this morning. Got up at 6:30 and poked my head out of the rooftop stairway to check the scenery...Zaruma was floating above a sea of clouds. I threw on some shoes and grabbed a plastic grocery bag to carry my camera and shot out the door, heading up to the lookout atop Cerro El Calvario, the prominent hill with the cross on top that might just collapse and bury part of the historic city center. 600 vertical feel later I stood with the rising sun pouring its light out over the awakening city below. Miles to the south, appearing deceptively close, the green ridges of southern Ecuador climbed above the white blanket drifting in the valley.

This is where I live. Sometimes it´s hard to believe that.