El Comercio is Quito, Ecuador’s major newspaper. I’ve been following them on Facebook for some time now. I’d heard about Cotopaxi, the volcano, erupting. That’s when I found El Comercio’s online presence. It has been interesting to read news from that small country where we lived for nearly three years. (Okay, that was forty years ago.)
When we lived in Quito, we would walk out to the sidewalk and turn south. There in the distance, dominating the horizon, was the perfect cone shape of Cotopaxi. It is both beautiful and iconic.
Recently, I’ve found plenty of reasons to continue following Ecuadorian news. Few folks around here got to see Sunday evening’s blood moon. On Monday I logged onto Facebook and found that El Comercio had published a number of photos of the lunar eclipse. This one was my favorite:
Ecuador’s view of Sunday’s eclipse
I enjoy pictures like these and the many others I’ve seen on various blogs and Websites. However, witnessing it with my eyes was by far the best.
Do you follow the news from somewhere other than where you now live?
Joe follows the news from his hometown–Moline, IL. I don’t think he does it as much as he used to though.
I follow the weather where my kids are. But news? No. It would just make me nervous.
Those are incredible photos of the moon! It sure was beautiful, wasn’t it?
Those are great shots. What I liked about it was that friends a continent away shared that same experience with us. I’m in a Facebook group from the town where I went through school (k-12 all in the same building), but it’s not been very active.
Really beautiful pictures of the moon. Our daughter who lives close to Clinton, MI, got some really great pictures.
Thanks, Vee. I’m glad your daughter had a good view of the event. I was glad to see what I saw. Before sunset the entire sky was cloud covered.