Month: November 2009

It’s true, it happens fairly often. Large lizards cross the road, roam the neighborhood, wander around seeing…

Garden Crotons or Variegated Crotons (Codiaeum variegatum) are native to Sri Lanka, among other countries. This comes…

Houses are frequently started, then finished in fits and starts. Sometimes, finishing a house will take place…

Fahim’s sister and her children were in town for Eid. Naturally, with three children old enough to…

Manioc, also knows as Cassava. My mother-in-law grows it in her garden and has fed it to…

How do I know Christmas is coming to Sri Lanka? Honestly? Because of the Christmas decorations available…

This is the stem of a thebu plant (Costus speciosus). The thebu plant has a spiralling leaf…

I’m working on fostering my creative side, theoretically. Or, I hope. Or something. I’ve never really thought…

The bees and other pollinating insects have been buzzing around the jambu tree for the last couple…

Yesterday, as a clan of cows wandered our neighborhood, eating the vegetation, a flock of cranes joined…

The jambu fruit are growing – it’s that time of year. 🙂 The jambu erupt into blossoms,…

I wish I knew what kinds of bugs we had hanging around our house. This guy looks…

Because, and for no other reason. 🙂 Enjoy!

We don’t get pretty little spitting little delicate rains here. Oh, no! No, no, no, no, no!…

Yeah, definitely too much with the exclamation marks. Too bad. I seem to like them. 😉 What…

This photo was taken on the road between Colombo and Kurunegala from out of a moving car,…

Yeah, I can be a bit overdramatic at times, hey? 🙂 Every day, or, more accurately, most…

Every single time Fahim sees this picture, he breaks out into chants of "Pooping cat! Pooping cat!"…

My poor lime tree. Okay, it’s really my mother in law’s lime tree – she planted it…

These are Rose-Ringed Parakeets (Psittacula krameri), also known in Sri Lanka as Rena Girava. The males have…