Latitude 18

Latitude 18 {Chiang Mai Flower Festival}

by Laura on February 11, 2011

Last Saturday, our family went to the annual Chiang Mai Flower Festival in downtown Chiang Mai.  The floats were gorgeous, the crowd was large, and yes, we caved and bought the kids all obnoxiously-large helium balloons.  Enjoy the photos, and here’s to hoping your weekend has a little beauty, or people-around, or even a reason [...]

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Current Favs {Homeschooling Books}

by Laura on February 5, 2011

I used to scour the blogs of my friends who were homeschooling {okay, I still do}. I was hungry for suggestions from mothers who were a year or two ahead of me in the process of raising kids, and I wanted to peek into their bookshelves and see which titles were on them. Now, three [...]

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When Rice is New

by Laura on February 4, 2011

After a season of slash-and-burn, of smoke-filling-air, of black-ash covering fields, they’ve started to plant the rice again. And I am reminded, by the process of the Thai farmer, that things often have to be burned and consumed, broken and charred, first. And then, sometimes only then, New Life is able to sprout, and give [...]

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The Best of Latitude 18 {2010}

by Laura on January 2, 2011

ava reaching water

The hubs is a cool dude on so many levels.  One of his secret-ninja skillz is in taking uh-mazing pictures. Here are a few of my personal favorites from this last year.  And if a pictures is worth a thousand words, well, maybe Matt should become the blogger in the family, after all. As you [...]

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Latitude 18

by Laura on November 16, 2010

As usual, all photo credit goes to the hubby {and his really nice camera and his MacBook}.  He can cook, he’s still hot after 11 years, and he can take sweet pictures.  Man, I’m glad I married that guy. Photos are of:  Village on the River outside of Chiang Rai, Village Scenes, HillTribe Girl in [...]

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Latitude 18

by Laura on August 27, 2010

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Latitude 18

by Laura on June 25, 2010

 

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Latitude 18

by Laura on May 4, 2010

 

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Latitude 18

by Laura on April 20, 2010

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