In the village of Ricaurte, they don’t walk the dog – they simply indulge it. I found it amusing that this mother/daughter duo simply walked out of the house and stood there like statues as the dog sniffed about the stoop and then left his puddle upon it. This photo is a street tableau, an insight into Ecuadorian village life. The mother, dressed in the vivid primary colors of Ecuador’s Andean highlands, and wearing the traditional fedora hat, studies a note in her hands as her daughter gazes resolutely at us. Neither pays attention to the dog, and the dog certainly paid no heed to them.