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“Natasha’s Honeydew Melon Cake” Oil Pastel
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Happy at Home and in the Garden
While my trip to Ecuador was incredible (and I’m working on a long post on it), I was so happy to see my family and fur babies again, not to mention that there are certain creature comforts that I missed, like my shower, my coffee, and my own bed. But I know that my pets were taken care of very well by my daughter and her friends while I was away, and they even got the cats a fruit stand, which Steven LOVES (and so do I)! This weekend was exceptionally nice to be back, because I got to celebrate Mother’s Day by going to the Oddities & Curiosities Expo…
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Good Vibes Only
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Florsani Flowers
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Ingapirca Ruins
During the 1400s, the Inca were expanding their kingdom when they encountered the Cañari indigenous people of southern Ecuador. The Inca attempted to conquer them by waging a war against the Cañari people, but the Cañari were fierce warriors and held a determined resistance to the Incas. The two groups eventually grew tired of fighting and decided to seek a peaceful solution through marriage and coexistence instead. The Cañari and the Inca people lived peacefully together in this Ingapirca (“Inca wall”) archaeological site in the Cañar Province of Ecuador, which is the largest known site of Inca ruins in Ecuador. The Cañari people that lived there had originally built a site…
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Cuenca, Ecuador
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Close to the Sun
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Más fotos de la Nueva Catedral de Cuenca
More pictures of the Cathedral by architect Juan Bautista Stiehle from a cathedral tour the next day:
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New Cathedral of Cuenca
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Sunset View from Posada Ingapirca
