Sunday, December 28, 2014

A kitchen and outside hearths, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

A kitchen hearth. Clay 'Chatti' and an aluminium kettle, a coconut shell and steel ladles, a GI pipe to use as a blower and a coir rest for the pot. The hearth is made of brick and clay.
A hearth outside the kitchen.
Tending the meal cooking on the hearth.
Rice being cooked for a large crowd. Note the impromptu hearth on three cement bricks, the large aluminium container and the dried fire-wood.

Saturday, December 27, 2014

Scenic Sri Lanka.

Flowers, Home garden, Avissawella.


Walk round the 'Diyawanna Oya', Colombo.

Red Lotus flowers in a pond, Kaluaggala.

White lotus flowers, Kaluaggala.

Friday, December 26, 2014

Scenes on the road from Kaduwela to Aissawella.

The Kelany Ganga near Ambulgama on the Low level road.


Scene near Kaduwela on the road to Avissawwella.

Message on a three-wheeler.