Project #365 Day 41 Red Explosion!
Remember the red flower bud photo I posted yesterday? It bloomed. Those are big fat black ants crawling around in…
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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 few months or…
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…
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 following day. During…
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 see one now…
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. Birds… Every now…
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 butt sticking out…
Day 31/#365 Squirrel Love
I stood on our balcony, looking around, enjoying the sounds of birds chirping and calling and singing to each other….
Day 30/#365 White Bellied Drongo
The bird of the day is… the White Bellied Drongo. I believe. There’s the White Bellied Drongo (Dicrurus caerulescens), also…
Day 29/#365 More Out and About in Sri Lanka
We went out briefly today and these are a couple of pictures I managed to get. Garbage pickup in Sri…
Day 28/#365 The Birds!
Every morning, I wake up to birds chirping and chattering and singing. And if you haven’t guessed by now, it’s…
Day 27/#365 The Cat!
I messed up posted two Day 26s, one on yesterday’s date, the second on today’s date. Both were photos from…
Day 26/#365 Spotted Dove
Today’s bird is a Spotted Dove (Streptopelia chinensis), also known as the Spotted Turtle Dove, Chinese Dove, and Alu Kobeiya…
Project #365 Day 26 Sunbird!
Today’s another birdie day. This birdie is a new one for me, I think. You know, lousy memory. I may…
Project #365 Day 25 Layard’s Parakeet… I think…
These are some of the bright green birds that visit our neighborhood. They can be difficult to spot since they…
Project #365 Day 24 Out and About
Shops tend to be on the very small side (compared to stores in the US and Canada, for example) and…
Project #365 Day 23 A dark green bird…
There are times when a point-and-shoot camera totally sucks, like when the object you want to focus on is small…
Project #365 Day 22 Where is that wascally squirrel?
This is my second time writing this post. Ugh. Not ugh because the post is so terrible. Ugh because I…
Project #365 Day 21 Fuzzy Wuzzy Caterpillar
This one is my choice of picture of the day. At least, so far today. I love the nasty caterpillar…
Project #365 Day 20 Brown Butterfly and Big Ants on Red Flower
This brown butterfly is an occasional visitor. He flits, he flies, he takes a brief rest break. I have no…
Project #365 Day 19 Snail
Slugs and snails seem to be everywhere here. They burrow into plant roots, they inhabit my compost bin, they crawl…
Project #365 Day 18 Flowering Decorative Palm
Many types of palm trees grow here. This is the flower for a decorative palm at the beginning of its…