Photo submission to BBC news “In Pictures”

BBC News has a page called In Pictures and they publish reader’s submissions at the bottom of the page under the appropriately-named Your Pictures.  Each week they publish a gallery of submissions based around a different theme.  This week’s theme is “Comfort”: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8480321.stm During the week of February 16 the theme is “water” and I [...]

Amy & Evie to Beijing

I haven’t really written much about the trip I took during Spring Festival.  We took a bus from Kunming (southern China) through northern Laos to Luang Prabang.  That sounds relatively simple and uneventful, but I assure you it doesn’t even begin to describe the weaving and winding mountain roads through this rugged, breathtaking, and utterly [...]