Goodies and Trinkets

Oooh - pretty colors! Shiny shiny! Walking the streets of Thailand and Laos can be very distracting. Storefronts everywhere burst with trinkets and goodies of every description, and the colorful knick knacks, sweets and tchotchkes beckon from afar. I have no idea why I liked to photograph all the baubles - probably because the bright, vivid hues simply popped against the grey of the sidewalk or the brown of the dusty dirt roads. At any rate, here you go - a glimpse of all the gewgaws I didn't buy!