Showing posts with label Flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flowers. Show all posts

Monday, June 3, 2013

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Flowers at a Sinhalese wedding, Yakkala, Sri Lanka.


Flowers at the entrance to the reception hall.

Flowers on the dining table.

Flowers carried by the brides-maids.
Flowers surrounding the milk pots.
As you can see they 'say it with fresh flowers' in present Sri Lanka.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Various flowers of Sri Lanka.

The 'Kandyan dancer' orchid.

Orchids 

Orchids

A flower found in the wet-zone of Sri Lanka and carried by children in 'Peraharas'  of the village temples, crying 'Saadhu, saadhu, mal Perahara'.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Village stream, Nawagamuwa, Sri Lanka.

A village waterway
'Olu' S, 'Thaamarai T, Lotus flowers for the plucking
These flowers are plucked by the villagers and sold at the nearby 'Nawagamuwa Paththini Dewale'. These are used by the worshipers to do 'pooja' at this temple. The flowers fetch around Rs5/-each.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Flowers, Dalada Maligawa.

Flowers for sale at the entrance to the 'Dalada Maligawa' - Temple of the Tooth, Kandy, Sri Lanka. Freshly plucked buds of lotuses and water lilies are on display. These are offered at the shrine by devotees who buy them here.