Month: December 2009
December Views – Buddha
These Buddha shrines are all over the place here. Some are small, with a Buddha statue perhaps…
Project #365 Day 104 – Starfruit Flowers
As always, please feel free to comment and critique. I’d love to hear from you – what…
December Views – Trishaw Stand
This was taken at an intersection we frequently pass by. Those three trishaws are waiting to acquire…
Jingle Bell – Punjabi Tadka (a video)
@nwjerseyliz tweeted this: Hmmm….Christmas carol + Bollywood + animation = Jingle Bell – Punjabi Tadka http://bit.ly/51txIA Out…
Project #365 Day 103 – Leaves
As always, please feel free to comment and critique. I’d love to hear from you – what…
December Views – A Sleeping Mom and Child
This photograph was taken at the Cancer Hospital, the children’s ward. In each room, there are typically…
Project #365 Day 102 – Glow
As always, please feel free to comment and critique. I’d love to hear from you – what…
December Views – Raggedy Squirrel
Squirrels visit us everywhere we go. This squirrel visited us at our first house and perched on…
December Views – Sunset
Hippy Urban Girl is running a, well, blog theme sort of dealy called December Views. Here’s the…
Project #365 Day 101 – An Ant Doing the Breaststroke
We have way too many ants here. Way way way way too many. And I’m far too…
Project #365 Day 100 – The Naming of the Lizard with a request for suggestions
I don’t know if this is the same lizard who visits our garden, or if there’s a…
Project #365 Day 99 – Jambu Fruit
The jambu fruit on our tree has been ripe for picking the last few days, and there’s…
Project #365 Day 98 – Starfruit Flower Blossoms
Our neighbor has a starfruit tree with branches that hang over into our yard. The starfruit only…
Project #365 Day 97 – Gava-Koka Revisited
This bird is a Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis), so named because it follows cattle around. In Sinhala,…
Project #365 Day 96 – Croton Flower Revisited
As always, please feel free to comment and critique. I’d love to hear from you – what…
Project #365 Day 95 – Croton Flower
As always, please feel free to comment and critique. I’d love to hear from you – what…
Project #365 Day 94 – Kahakurulla
Say hello to one of our neighborhood Black-Hooded Orioles (Oriolus xanthornus), also known in Sinhala as Kahakurulla….
Project #365 Day 93 – Blushing Jambu
This is unripe jambu fruit still on the tree. I was doing my Project 365 posts over…
Project #365 Day 92 Red Wave
Do you know what this is? No cheating by looking at the categories or tags, now, ya…
Images of Poverty
In the first image, You can see a small concrete building with black plastic sheets covering one…
Project #365 Day 91 That’s a full basket you’re carrying on your head, sir.
I took this photo when we were waiting for traffic to move in downtown Colombo. This man…
Project #365 Day 90 Injured purple-faced langur
One of our neighborhood purple-faced langurs is injured. Check out the red splotch on the right arm….
Project #365 Day 89 Vichuli Visits
The oddly-coloured (to me) blue and brown bird, aka white-throated kingfisher or vichuli came back for a…
Project #365 Day 88 Is that a wasp’s nest?
I generally make it a rule to stay as far away from biting insects as I can….