Author Archives: Anita Cales

Alpaca passing by,… !

Today this Alpaca passed by our house !

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Provincia Imbabura

Roast chicken. Nat­ural beauty. Peru. The Vir­gin Mary in her var­i­ous man­i­fes­ta­tions. Com­mu­nity spirit. Rain­bows. Affec­tion. Four sea­sons in one day. Close to the heav­ens. Rough and prim­i­tive. Catholic. Unprej­u­diced and sym­pa­thetic. Black clouds. Din­ner around a grave. Ecuador. Fam­ily. Rit­u­als. Dozens of dif­fer­ent cli­mates. Moun­tain ranges. Pitch-black clouds. Blis­ter­ing sun. A ren­dezvous with South […]

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Our Knitters

She is a pig breeder and mother. More than a house­wife: the heart of the house­hold and head of the fam­ily. Catholic and super­sti­tious. Mod­est though she is, she radi­ates mother nature’s pri­mal strength as serenely as an angel. She laughs a lot and is always sur­rounded by chil­dren. Not so much a thinker as […]

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Good Friday Proseccion

High moun­tains veiled in mist, snow-covered tops, ridges over­grown with cacti, fast-flowing brooks, mag­nif­i­cent views, a quiet town in a val­ley of the Andes. This coun­try is so dif­fer­ent, these peo­ple are so dif­fer­ent. They live and work in the high­land. Much closer to the sky than we are. In colour­ful sur­round­ings. The pon­chos they […]

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