Can you ever fathom the beauty of a Rose?

Yes, the imperfections ADD to a Rose's beauty.

Flowers, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Fire-brigade tender and Banana truck, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Curious infant 'Thalagoya'S - 'Udumbu' T, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

 "In Sri Lanka, the name given to the land monitor, Varanus bengalensis bengalensis."


The reference by Knox (1681:31) reads: "There is the Tolla guion very much like the former, ('Kabaragoya') which is eaten, and reckoned excellent meat. The Chingulays say it is the best sort of flesh; and for this reason, That if you eat other flesh at the same time you eat of this, and have occasion to vomit, you will never vomit out this tho you vomit all the other. This creature eats not carrion, but only lives on herbs; is less of size than the kobbera guion, and blackish, lives in hollow Trees and holes in the Humbosses: And I suppose is the same with that which in the West Indies they call the Guiana." - http://www.lankalibrary.com/wlife/kabara.htm

Mathara to Kaduwela, Expressway scenes, Sri Lanka.

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Mathara - Kaduwela Expressway, Sri Lanka.

Metal art-work.

Palm trees for a  plantation.

Mathara to Kaduwela on the Expressway, Sri Lanka.

Scenes on the Mathara to Kaduwela Expressway, Sri Lanka.

Scenes by the side of the Mathara to Kaduwela Expressway, Sri Lanka.

The 'Zero Hour'.

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Expressway, Mathara to Kaduwela, Sri Lanka.

Mathara to Kaduwela on the expressway, Sri Lanka.

Old Dutch Market, Mathara, Sri Lanka.

Scenes of Mathara, Sri Lanka.

Inside the Dutch Star Fort, Mathara, Sri Lanka.

The well which provided the water.

The main building inside.

The wooden draw-bridge crossing the moat.

The lock on the main gate.