Project #365 Day 79 The Bee and the Jambu Flower Blossom
The bees and other pollinating insects have been buzzing around the jambu tree for the last couple of days, ever…
Project #365 Day 78 Cattle Egret, aka Gava-Koka
Yesterday, as a clan of cows wandered our neighborhood, eating the vegetation, a flock of cranes joined them, following in…
Project #365 Day 77 Jambu Flower Blossoms
The jambu fruit are growing – it’s that time of year. 🙂 The jambu erupt into blossoms, which then fall…
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…
Project #365 Day 72 The Brownouts and Bunnies!
Yeah, I can be a bit overdramatic at times, hey? 🙂 Every day, or, more accurately, most days, I make…
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 67 – Remedial Post
Yeah, I’m really not sure how many people will stop reading my blog over this, and yet I go ahead…
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…
An Award For My Little Blog
My so very good friend, Lynn, gave me an award for my blog. Lynn… Ah, our friendship goes back a…