This study of ten digital photographs taken in July 2007 illustrates the delicate balance linking social and natural worlds, economy and ecology, in San Francisco de Las Pampas (00°25'S, 79°00'W), a remote village situated in Cotopaxi Province, Latacunga, Ecuador in the western foothills of the Andes. Here, in the fragile bio-diverse cloud forest, global warming has effected drastic climate changes with torrential rain destroying pineapple and sugar cane crops. Local farmers have resorted to growing naranjillas (Solanum quitoense) which they are packing into boxes in the main square, prior to the weekly market. As the mountains are gradually being denuded of trees to make way for cash crops and livestock rearing, this in turn threatens endemic species such as hummingbirds which have symbiotic relationships with many red flowering plants. Nevertheless, Las Pampas maintains a serene elegance with the blue/green wooden fretwork of the vernacular architecture and the laid-back dignity of the indigenous inhabitants representing how everyday life continues despite the political, social, economic and ecological upheavals currently transforming Ecuador.