The morning after

My first morning back in Canada dawned clear and cold, with a startlingly low snowline on the local mountains. This is the view that greeted me when I stumbled blearily into the kitchen, and true to my recent training, I immediately stumbled back to the bedroom to fetch my camera. Phew! I didn't leave all the beauty behind me in Asia. It was a gloriously sunny day, and the espresso machine blinked at me from its corner. It's good to be home.

So near yet so far

Women doing laundry just across a river in Myawaddy, Burma. Taken from the Thai side of the Rim Moei river.

Dry season

Cracked earth on the outskirts of Mae Sot, Thailand.

Tremulous green

Tender young shoots of rice in the mountains, Luang Prabang province, Laos.

Rice fields of Bali