Author: LMAshton

Howdy! I'm a beginner artist, hobbyist photographer, kitchen witch, wanderer by nature, and hermit introvert. This is my blog feed. You can find my fediverse posts at https://a.farook.org/Laurie.
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Project #365 Day 64 Baby Jambu

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Squirrel!

I know, I know. I’m easily amused. I can’t help it. 🙂 We have a lot of…

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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 –…

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Project #365 Day 62 For The Birds!

Today is a complete and total bird day. Yeah, I just can’t help it. 😀 The yellow…

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A Flying Dog

It’s staring at you. Can you feel it? I think it’s looking for its target…

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Project #365 Day 61 Bread Trishaw!

Trishaws, also known as tuk tuks or three wheelers or auto-rickshaws, are exceedingly handy vehicles, especially countries…

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Project #365 Day 60 Jambu!

Which I’ve also seen spelled as jumbu and jumboo and a bunch of other ways. But Fahim…

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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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Project #365 Day 59 Electricity!

I think I use too many exclamation points. What do you think? 😉 This is an electricity…

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Project #365 Day 58 Buns! Or, Bunnies!

Fahim calls ’em bunnies. I blame him for the title of this post. 😀 I make my…

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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 57 Chameleon Re-Visited

He (she? I can’t get close enough to lift his/her/its tail) seems to be a fairly frequent…

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

😀 May he rest in peace. Or pieces. 😀

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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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Project #365 Day 55 Pink Flower

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Project #365 Day 54 Random Plant

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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 53 Common Tailorbird

I’ve mentioned before that, in empty lots here, stuff grows. Yeah, cuz "stuff" is such a highly…

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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. 🙂 I’ve mentioned before that all…

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Reviewing Qumana Blog Manager – So far, so good…

Qumana is the latest in a bunch of desktop blogging applications I’m testing, all in an effort…

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Project #365 Day 50 Flower Buds

Tags: flowers, flower buds, Sri Lanka

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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. 😛 This time, we’ve got an actual human working…