Project #365 Day 87 Buzz!!!!
Somehow, and no, I don’t know how this happened, I managed to not take a single photograph yesterday. Not even…
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s Bus System
In Sri Lanka, there’s the government-run bus system and then there are the privately-owned buses. The big red bus is…
Project #365 Day 86 Fifty five, fifty six, fifty seven, fifty…
I don’t even know why it’s called a centipede. It doesn’t have a hundred legs, yet, centipede it is apparently…
Lizard Crossing
It’s true, it happens fairly often. Large lizards cross the road, roam the neighborhood, wander around seeing the sights. Stop…
Installing a Water Line
Houses are frequently started, then finished in fits and starts. Sometimes, finishing a house will take place years later. Our…
Project #365 Day 84 Insects and Reflections
Fahim’s sister and her children were in town for Eid. Naturally, with three children old enough to walk/run/look at everything…
Project #365 Day 76 Red Eyes
I wish I knew what kinds of bugs we had hanging around our house. This guy looks so much like…
Project #365 Day 75 Monsoon!
We don’t get pretty little spitting little delicate rains here. Oh, no! No, no, no, no, no! We get the…
Project #365 Day 74 Woven Goods For Sale
This photo was taken on the road between Colombo and Kurunegala from out of a moving car, which is how…
Pooping Cat!
Every single time Fahim sees this picture, he breaks out into chants of "Pooping cat! Pooping cat!" 😀 (Ah, yes,…
Project #365 Day 71 The Dying of the Lime Tree
My poor lime tree. Okay, it’s really my mother in law’s lime tree – she planted it and cared for…
Three Green Parrots
These are Rose-Ringed Parakeets (Psittacula krameri), also known in Sri Lanka as Rena Girava. The males have a rose collar…
Bathing in Sri Lanka
I’ve mentioned before that not everyone has running water piped to their homes in Sri Lanka. In some neighborhoods, people…
Project #365 Day 69 Crane Fly? Or Something Else?
No idea what the heck this insect is, although it vaguely resembles crane flies. All I know is that I…
Shops and Stalls and Open-Air Markets
It’s true, I’m easily confused. 🙂 Here’s another confusion for me. Why would soft toys and household linens be sold…
Project #365 Day 66 Monkeys! And Starfruit!
In the first picture, the adult purple-faced leaf monkey, aka purple-faced langur, helps the little monkey up onto the top…
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…
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…