…was spent admiring Loja, Ecuador…
…including its ‘bottlebrush’ flowers (that I have loved since I was a little girl)
and the row of wind turbines on the valley hill facing us.
Yes, I’ll take this over Canadian snow days.

Now that I am back on the northern Peruvian coast
(where it was too hot to have an appetite at lunch yesterday and today),
it would be nice to have an excuse for say…a beach day…

(maybe a heat wave would do the trick??).