Vivid colors bring Cuenca’s neighborhoods to life. This blue building, adjacent to our Spanish school, always drew my eye. Along with its blue façade, one of its doors was always framed in brilliantly colored children’s products. I used this building as a backdrop, and photographed many people approaching and passing it over the month I was in Cuenca. This particular woman proved to be one of the most striking pedestrians. She carries her baby in her arms, bundled in a bright pink blanket. She strides with self-confidence, head held high and baby held firmly. (It should not be too long before her child will be carrying a backpack such as those decorating the doorway she approaches here.)