Author: LMAshton
Project #365 Day 48 Purple Purple Plurple
Tags: purple, flowers, purple flowers, Sri Lanka
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…
Project #365 Day 46 What Am I?
First person to guess what this is gets points. Lots and lots of points. Redeemable for, uh,…
Project #365 Day 45 I’m a fan
Tags: project 365, fans
Project #365 Day 44 A Purple Flower
In the empty lot next door, a lot of vegetation grows. Besides the banana plants, there are…
Spiders and Cob Webs
This picture is for the shop where I bought my stone mortar and pestle and cast iron…
Project #365 Day 43 The Resurrection of the Orchid Tree
The orchid tree that sits in front of our house – on the street side of our…
Water Lilies
Water lilies beside a major road in Battaramulla. Water lilies grow in a few waterways here. A…
Project #365 Day 42 Jasmine
Tags: jasmine, flower, flower buds, Sri Lanka
Rice Paddy Field
Here is a rice paddy field, which is a fairly common sight. Despite rice growing here, rice…
Project #365 Day 41 Red Explosion!
Remember the red flower bud photo I posted yesterday? It bloomed. Those are big fat black ants…
Shops, Food Carts, and Produce Stalls
Here, we’ve got a shop (printing, Internet, communications services) to the left in the picture. In front…
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…
Project #365 Day 40 Red Flower Bud
Tags: flower, flower bud, Sri Lanka
Project #365 Day 39 The Naming of the Bird
This bird, an Oriental Magpie Robin (Copsychus saularis), visits me pretty much every day for the last…
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…
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…
Day 36/365 Fahim and the Mystery of the Leaking Water Tank
A few days ago, we had a power cut that lasted all night and part of the…
Day 34/#365 Help! Let me out!
Geckos are just a part of life here in Sri Lanka. I mostly don’t scream when I…
Day 33/#365 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Bugs inside the house, that’s understandable and unavoidable. Geckos, for that matter, can’t even be kept out….
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…
Day 31/#365 Squirrel Love
I stood on our balcony, looking around, enjoying the sounds of birds chirping and calling and singing…
Day 30/#365 White Bellied Drongo
The bird of the day is… the White Bellied Drongo. I believe. There’s the White Bellied Drongo…