The dogs looking up a tree where a squirell has escaped, home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

In Tamil there is a phrase 'ANIL ERAVITTA NAI POLA', meaning 'like a dog who has missed catching a squirrel which has scampered up a tree'. This epithet applies to a person who has just missed reaching his goal.

Flowers in the wild, Kosgama, Sri Lanka.

'Touch-me-not' - Mimosa pudica.

Ixora.

Yellow 'Temple flower.

A 'Dhana' awaiting the arrival of Buddhist Priests, Manikkawaththe Pansala, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Sri Jayawardenapura Hospital, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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.

Scenic Sri Lanka.

Flowers, Home garden, Avissawella.

Walk round the 'Diyawanna Oya', Colombo.

Red Lotus flowers in a pond, Kaluaggala.

White lotus flowers, Kaluaggala.

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.