Category: Sri Lanka

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Bicycles!

Bicycles may not be the most common form of transportation here, but they’re still used, even as…

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Handmade Furniture

It’s quite easy, I’m told, to find someone to custom-make wooden furniture for you here. I’m also…

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Project #365 Day 56 The Only Good Mosquito Is A Dead Mosquito

πŸ˜€ May he rest in peace. Or pieces. πŸ˜€

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Water Tanks On Houses

We have somewhat frequent water outages here, and they can last 12 hours or longer. Fahim even…

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A typical main-ish road in Sri Lanka

This is the view from just outside the Arpico department store where we go for grocery shopping….

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Project #365 Day 52 Volunteers

Every now and then, we have bugs that voluntarily die. Old age, maybe. This one landed on…

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Mooooooo!

My fascination with cows continues. If you like looking at cows, this provides you with further entertainment….

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Project 365 Day 51 – Out and About

This might just end up being a regular thing with me. πŸ™‚ I’ve mentioned before that all…

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I’m Seeing Wasps?

I’ve got to admit, it’s true, wasps frighten me. I’m allergic to just about every kind of…

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Is that a monkey on my telephone line again?

As it turns out, no, not this time. πŸ˜› This time, we’ve got an actual human working…

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Project 365 Day 47 The Rat Snake vs. The Fahim

I was downstairs, getting ready to mix up some bread dough and make some sweets, when I…

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Project #365 Day 44 A Purple Flower

In the empty lot next door, a lot of vegetation grows. Besides the banana plants, there are…

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Spiders and Cob Webs

This picture is for the shop where I bought my stone mortar and pestle and cast iron…

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Water Lilies

Water lilies beside a major road in Battaramulla. Water lilies grow in a few waterways here. A…

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Shops, Food Carts, and Produce Stalls

Here, we’ve got a shop (printing, Internet, communications services) to the left in the picture. In front…

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Selling Furniture in Sri Lanka

Yes, it’s outside, and yes, it’s probably getting dusty. Ah, well, you know, that’s how things go…

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Cows!

These pictures were all taken on our way to the Battaramulla Arpico, a 15-20 minute trishaw ride….

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Project #365 Day 38 The Thing! and It!

We have altogether too many bugs and insects and creepy crawlies and things that make me scream…

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Project #365 Day 37 Out and About in Sri Lanka

We were out and about again today – grocery shopping to Battaramulla – so I figured I’d…

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Day 32/#365 Alien Bug From the Andromeda Galaxy!

I wandered outside to our garden and looked at our pretty flowers (did you notice the ant…

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Day 31/#365 Squirrel Love

I stood on our balcony, looking around, enjoying the sounds of birds chirping and calling and singing…

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A lizard came for a visit…

This guy is about 15" or so long, including the tail, so not terribly big. I saw…

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Day 29/#365 More Out and About in Sri Lanka

We went out briefly today and these are a couple of pictures I managed to get. Garbage…

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Day 27/#365 The Cat!

I messed up posted two Day 26s, one on yesterday’s date, the second on today’s date. Both…

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Project #365 Day 24 Out and About

Shops tend to be on theΒ  very small side (compared to stores in the US and Canada,…