Author: LMAshton

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…

I’ve mentioned before that not everyone has running water piped to their homes in Sri Lanka. In…

No idea what the heck this insect is, although it vaguely resembles crane flies. All I know…

Yeah, I couldn’t help myself. 😀

It’s true, I’m easily confused. 🙂 Here’s another confusion for me. Why would soft toys and household…

Yeah, I’m really not sure how many people will stop reading my blog over this, and yet…

In the first picture, the adult purple-faced leaf monkey, aka purple-faced langur, helps the little monkey up…

It turns out I was wrong. This does happen on occasion, yes. 😛 All those pictures I…

My so very good friend, Lynn, gave me an award for my blog. Lynn… Ah, our friendship…

The empty lot next door really isn’t empty. It’s just empty of a house, a dwelling, an…

Mites are absolutely everywhere here, as are ants of all sorts of sizes and descriptions. Battle ’em…