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 48 Purple Purple Plurple
Tags: purple, flowers, purple flowers, Sri Lanka
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 46 What Am I?
First person to guess what this is gets points. Lots and lots of points. Redeemable for, uh, well, nothing, really,…
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…
Project #365 Day 43 The Resurrection of the Orchid Tree
The orchid tree that sits in front of our house – on the street side of our wall, so not…
Water Lilies
Water lilies beside a major road in Battaramulla. Water lilies grow in a few waterways here. A few times, I’ve…
Rice Paddy Field
Here is a rice paddy field, which is a fairly common sight. Despite rice growing here, rice is still imported…
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…
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 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…