A walk to the Bosque Mall

"el Bosque" is a park and a mall about 15 minutes by old feet from
where I live. It is up hill but not bad, not as bad as coming up to
the house from nearer the center of the valley.Sitting in the food
court in the mall I nursed a cola and drew pictures of the scene. The
view is amazing. It looks down on the airport's runway far below the
horizon. Beyond the runway a complex mosaic of little tiny colored
tile, thousands and thousands of them carpeting the eastern slopes of
the valley. These are houses and apartment buildings, businesses and
shops. Within each of those little tile are smaller dark rectangles,
windows. Unique view. I doubt there is anywhere else on earth like
it. Did I mention the Volcanoes? No, can't see them, the clouds are
hiding them. The clouds are fantastic. Massive floating sculpture
which drifts and changes moment to moment. Their shadows are cast on
the mosaic of the eastern slope of the valley of Pinchincha, the Inca
city which Quito grew from. Its terrible to be inspired by these
scenes to do paintings when every ounce packed is a millstone when
the time comes to fly out. Solution, don't fly out, stay.