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 9 Linen, Homeware, Artifacts?

I haven’t shopped in this store, so I really have no idea what kinds of stuff it…

Posted in Weird Stuff

I’m fairly certain…

My husband is insane. That is all. Posted via email from lmashton’s posterous

Posted in Life My Photography

Project #365 Day 8 Is that supposed to be the hospital cafeteria?

While I haven’t spent a huge amount of time at hospitals, or, more accurately, in hospital cafeterias,…

Posted in Life My Photography

Project #365 Day 7 And the Alien!

I was going to use this as my picture of the day. Because, let’s face it, the…

Posted in My Photography Sri Lanka

Project #365 Day 6 Thebu and Papaya Mealybug

A little over a year ago, our househelper brought some thebu one day. She made the leaves…

Posted in Life My Photography

Project #365 Day 5 Croton

One of the plants in our garden. Edited to add: This plant has been positively identified as…

Posted in Life Sri Lanka

The parting of the papaya mealybug and the lime tree

I’ve mentioned the papaya mealybug infection in several previous posts. Unfortunately, the papaya mealy bug (Paracoccus marginatus)…

Posted in Life My Photography

Project #365 Day 4 – Fungus!

Fungus growing on my lime tree. Tags: lime tree, fungus

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Project 365 Day 3 – Insect Sex!

No doubt the blog post title will trigger all sorts of interesting spam comments. Yikes! I could…

Posted in Sri Lanka

Cheeky Squirrel!

I swear, every creature in the neighborhood loves these pink flowers. Including, it would seem, this very…

Posted in Life My Photography

Project 365 Day 2 – Flowers!

There’s a tree just outside our front yard. It grows prolifically, so even though it was cut…

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Project 365 Day 1 – A Photo A Day

A friend, Benjamin Solah, posted on Facebook that he’d accepted the 365 challenge to take a photo…

Posted in Life

A Fat Rant

You know I’m not overly into YouTube videos, but if there’s something that’s well worth your time…

Posted in Sri Lanka

Two images of poverty in Sri Lanka

It’s difficult to understand what abject poverty can really mean. To someone in a relatively wealthy nation…

Posted in Sri Lanka

License Plates!

You know how, in places like Canada or the US, there’s a uniformity in the way licence…

Posted in Geekery

Post revisions in WordPress

With the duplicate entries I was seeing in Zoundry Raven, I started to wonder if it might…

Posted in Geekery

Report a bug, get… a sales pitch for paid support?

I recently updated Twitter Tools to its latest release, version 2.0, and it stopped working properly. Used…

Posted in Geekery

Playing with BlogDesk, another desktop blogging application

We’ll see how this one goes. At least it hasn’t crashed yet. 🙂 BlogDesk Version 2.8, build…

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RocketPost-powered

I’m running the fully-functional 7 day trial of RocketPost blog software with all features enabled, or so…

Posted in Sri Lanka

My first ladybug

…that I’ve seen in Sri Lanka. I’m sure there are many more. I’ve heard tales of them,…

Posted in Geekery

Taking Raven out for a test drive

It’s official – I’m looking for a desktop blogging application, and Raven is next in line for…

Posted in Life

Fahim, first thing in the morning

Well, maybe not quite first thing. After all, he’d been up since 3:45am and this was taken…

Posted in Geekery

How do I get this Apple keyboard to work?

I mentioned in a previous post that we bought me an Apple aluminum keyboard. Easy keystrokes, kind…

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Taking BlogJet for a test drive

I use a desktop blogging platform for writing my blog entries. It’s something I’ve always done, and…

Posted in Sri Lanka

One of our neighborhood squirrels

Tags: squirrels