Do you know what this is? No cheating by looking at the categories or tags, now, ya hear? Hah! Fooled you! Seriously though… What am I? Similar Posts: Timber! Experimentation with sewing. Ack! Project #365 Day 45 I’m a fan Project #365 Day 50 Flower Buds Flame wars, anyone?
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I took this photo when we were waiting for traffic to move in downtown Colombo. This man is carrying a basket of food on his head – bananas, rice & curry packets, and who knows what else. Similar Posts: Project 365 Day 51 – Out and About Favourite Photos of 2003 Buddha Statue. A...
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One of our neighborhood purple-faced langurs is injured. Check out the red splotch on the right arm. I hope s/he is okay and recovers fine from this. Similar Posts: Gray Langur Monkeys, No. Purple-Faced Leaf Monkeys, Yes. Neighorhood Monkeys in Sri Lanka Favourite Photos of 2007 More Neighborhood Monkey Activity Purple-Faced Langur Monkeys at...
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The oddly-coloured (to me) blue and brown bird, aka white-throated kingfisher or vichuli came back for a visit today. Similar Posts: The Fisher King! Well, no, not really… Birds of Sri Lanka White Bellied Drongo – Help me, Obiwan! It’s a new bird! Nitamba Sudu Vikurulla A Squirrel and A Bird Come Visiting
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I generally make it a rule to stay as far away from biting insects as I can. I tend to be allergic to most of them. Yeah, not good, right? So why, then, did I voluntarily take a picture of this bug? Which, by the way, happens to be a wasp? Could it be...
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Somehow, and no, I don’t know how this happened, I managed to not take a single photograph yesterday. Not even a blurry one. None. Nothing. And I didn’t realize it until this afternoon. The shame! The horror! What WILL I do? Ah well. Enjoy today’s bee, then. Similar Posts: Transportation habits in Sri Lanka...
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I don’t even know why it’s called a centipede. It doesn’t have a hundred legs, yet, centipede it is apparently called. I haven’t been able to identify what, specifically, this creature is. If anyone knows what it is, please speak up and let me know. Meanwhile, I’ve found these things in all three of...
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Garden Crotons or Variegated Crotons (Codiaeum variegatum) are native to Sri Lanka, among other countries. This comes as no surprise to me given how prolific it grows here, both in the wild as well as in people’s garden. We have quite a few Crotons in our garden of varying colours, and I love colours....
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Fahim’s sister and her children were in town for Eid. Naturally, with three children old enough to walk/run/look at everything around, we saw this bug. I’ve photographed this type of bug before, but this is my favourite picture of it. Please feel free to comment and critique. Similar Posts: Chernobyl Beetle! Are you ready...
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Manioc, also knows as Cassava. My mother-in-law grows it in her garden and has fed it to me at least a couple of times. She gave me two warnings: one, don’t eat it raw, and two, don’t eat ginger the same day I eat manioc. Manioc cannot be eaten raw because it has two...
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