Category: Sri Lanka
Project #365 Day 87 Buzz!!!!
Somehow, and no, I don’t know how this happened, I managed to not take a single photograph…
Sri Lanka’s Bus System
In Sri Lanka, there’s the government-run bus system and then there are the privately-owned buses. The big…
Project #365 Day 86 Fifty five, fifty six, fifty seven, fifty…
I don’t even know why it’s called a centipede. It doesn’t have a hundred legs, yet, centipede…
Lizard Crossing
It’s true, it happens fairly often. Large lizards cross the road, roam the neighborhood, wander around seeing…
Installing a Water Line
Houses are frequently started, then finished in fits and starts. Sometimes, finishing a house will take place…
Project #365 Day 84 Insects and Reflections
Fahim’s sister and her children were in town for Eid. Naturally, with three children old enough to…
Project #365 Day 76 Red Eyes
I wish I knew what kinds of bugs we had hanging around our house. This guy looks…
Moo! Moooooo!!!!! Moooo!
Because, and for no other reason. 🙂 Enjoy!
Project #365 Day 75 Monsoon!
We don’t get pretty little spitting little delicate rains here. Oh, no! No, no, no, no, no!…
Project #365 Day 74 Woven Goods For Sale
This photo was taken on the road between Colombo and Kurunegala from out of a moving car,…
Pooping Cat!
Every single time Fahim sees this picture, he breaks out into chants of "Pooping cat! Pooping cat!"…
Project #365 Day 71 The Dying of the Lime Tree
My poor lime tree. Okay, it’s really my mother in law’s lime tree – she planted it…
Three Green Parrots
These are Rose-Ringed Parakeets (Psittacula krameri), also known in Sri Lanka as Rena Girava. The males have…
Bathing in Sri Lanka
I’ve mentioned before that not everyone has running water piped to their homes in Sri Lanka. In…
Project #365 Day 69 Crane Fly? Or Something Else?
No idea what the heck this insect is, although it vaguely resembles crane flies. All I know…
Shops and Stalls and Open-Air Markets
It’s true, I’m easily confused. 🙂 Here’s another confusion for me. Why would soft toys and household…
Project #365 Day 66 Monkeys! And Starfruit!
In the first picture, the adult purple-faced leaf monkey, aka purple-faced langur, helps the little monkey up…
Gray Langur Monkeys, No. Purple-Faced Leaf Monkeys, Yes.
It turns out I was wrong. This does happen on occasion, yes. 😛 All those pictures I…
Project #365 Day 65 Mites and Ants
Mites are absolutely everywhere here, as are ants of all sorts of sizes and descriptions. Battle ’em…
Project #365 Day 63 Purple-Faced Leaf Monkey
This guy (I think…), a gray purple-faced langur monkey, visited us again. The pack of monkeys –…
A Flying Dog
It’s staring at you. Can you feel it? I think it’s looking for its target…
Project #365 Day 61 Bread Trishaw!
Trishaws, also known as tuk tuks or three wheelers or auto-rickshaws, are exceedingly handy vehicles, especially countries…