Gray Langur Monkeys, No. Purple-Faced Leaf Monkeys, Yes.
It turns out I was wrong. This does happen on occasion, yes. 😛 All those pictures I have of monkeys…
Countries
Project #365 Day 65 Mites and Ants
Mites are absolutely everywhere here, as are ants of all sorts of sizes and descriptions. Battle ’em best we can,…
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 – there are five…
A Flying Dog
It’s staring at you. Can you feel it? I think it’s looking for its target…
Project #365 Day 61 Bread Trishaw!
Trishaws, also known as tuk tuks or three wheelers or auto-rickshaws, are exceedingly handy vehicles, especially countries like Sri Lanka…
Handmade Furniture
It’s quite easy, I’m told, to find someone to custom-make wooden furniture for you here. I’m also told that it…
Project #365 Day 56 The Only Good Mosquito Is A Dead Mosquito
😀 May he rest in peace. Or pieces. 😀
Water Tanks On Houses
We have somewhat frequent water outages here, and they can last 12 hours or longer. Fahim even tells me of…
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. While there are…
Project #365 Day 52 Volunteers
Every now and then, we have bugs that voluntarily die. Old age, maybe. This one landed on my kitchen counter…
Project 365 Day 51 – Out and About
This might just end up being a regular thing with me. 🙂 I’ve mentioned before that all sorts of things…
I’m Seeing Wasps?
I’ve got to admit, it’s true, wasps frighten me. I’m allergic to just about every kind of insect that’s ever…
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 on the telephone…
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 looked out the…
Project #365 Day 44 A Purple Flower
In the empty lot next door, a lot of vegetation grows. Besides the banana plants, there are a lot of…
Spiders and Cob Webs
This picture is for the shop where I bought my stone mortar and pestle and cast iron 10″ griddle. Much…
Water Lilies
Water lilies beside a major road in Battaramulla. Water lilies grow in a few waterways here. A few times, I’ve…
Shops, Food Carts, and Produce Stalls
Here, we’ve got a shop (printing, Internet, communications services) to the left in the picture. In front of that, there’s…
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 here. 🙂 I’ve…
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 like a wee…
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 show some more…