If it's possible to show you the Sierra in a single shot, this one shows you what we see every day here. In the foreground, you have the houses of the hard-working poor. Note the unpainted cinder block walls and corrugated galvanized roofs. We frequently see old tires and broken cinder blocks on top to help hold the roof in place. You also see the wires of all descriptions strung in what seems like any place anyone wants to put them. Trying to get an unblemished view of the mountains with your naked eye is nearly impossible.
In the middle distance, even if you can't make them out, are the usual mix of houses, to include some very pleasant middle class homes up to and including estates with elaborate walls, gates, and security systems. We walk by all three examples every morning on our way to school.
In the far distance, those splotches of white encroaching up the sides of the mountains are some relatively new apartment and condo complexes on the outskirts of Quito.
Rising above all this, in dwindiling, undiminshed power are the peaks of the Andes. I never tire of looking at them.
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