MARCH 2015, SPRING CHORES

WONDERFUL WEATHER A COUPLE OF WEEKS

THE PHOTOGRAPHER IN MORNING SUN OPENING UP FOR.............

MY ATV.  HELPS ME A LOT WITH THE SPRING CHORES!

GOING DOWN THE "PLANK-ROAD" IN MY LITTLE FOREST

WHERE I HAVE PUT IRON GRIDS TO PREVENT GLIDING OFF.  THE ALGAE HAS MADE IT DANGEROUSLY SLIPPERY, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS WET.

HAVE A BIG HEAP OF DIRT LYING IN THE CORNER OF MY FIELD.  I MOVE SOME OF IT TO WIDEN AROUND MY LOCUM.  WAS TOO NARROW THERE BEFORE.  THE ATV IS WONDERFUL FOR THAT..

HERE!!

GETTING BETTER.

ONLY THE JOHN DEERE IS MISSING BUT GRASS HAS FORTUNATELY NOT STARTED TO GROW.

THE BIRDS MUST STILL BE FED A COUPLE OF MONTHS

SPRING FLOWERS IN FULL BLOOM

AND SOON THE DAFFODILLS ARE COMING

THE SWANS HAS ARRIVED DOWN BY THE SEASHORE

WITH OFFROAD MOTORBIKE ON SRI LANKA, PART 3

SO HOT I HAD TO USE THE FAN ON MY BACK

THEREFORE SWIMMING AT MERISSA WAS LOVELY

OLD FISHINGBOATS AT MERISSA

WALKED AROUND TAKING PHOTOS IN MERISSA, I ALL OF A SUDDEN HAPPENED TO STAND OUTSIDE A BARBERS SHOP.  I DECIDED TO GET MY HAIR CUT!

A VARAN

NOT JUST BANANA-STOPS

SWIMMING AT THE BOTTOM OF A WATERFALL

WHICH YOU SEE HERE IN THE BACKGROUND

OFF AGAIN

ON LITTLE ROADS

SHOWING PHOTOS TO SMALL SCHOOL-CHILDREN

LAST NIGHT IN NEGOMBO AFTER BIKES WERE HANDED IN

BACK TO OSLO AND COLD WEATHER

WITH OFFROAD MOTORBIKE ON SRI LANKA, PART 2

JUST BY COINCIDENCE, WE STUMBLED UPON A RELIGOUS CEREMONY FOR ONE OF THE HINDU GODS.  A MAN BECAME HOOKED UP BY HUGE CROOKS THRU THE SKIN, HANGING FROM A POLE AND DRIVEN TO THE VILLAGE-TEMPLE.

THIS MAN HAD VOLUNTEERED

HERE HE IS ALL HOOKED UP!

JIM OUR LEADER AND COFOUNDER OF INDIAN ADVENTURES.

AT HORTON PLAINS NATIONAL PARK WE SAW WILD DEER, COMING CLOSE TO US.

STOPPING TO PHOTOGRAPH AN ELEPHANT ROADSIGN.............

AN ELEPHANT APPEARED ON THE ROAD SOON AFTER.

THIS SPARROW HAD BUILT ITS NEST IN THE LAMP!

A VARAN IN YALA NATIONAL PARK.  FOLLOWING SHOTS FROM THERE.

TRYING TO GET A SHOT OF THE HIND END OF A LEOPARD.

HAVE ABOUT 50 SHOTS OF THIS HIND END!

AND 30 SHOTS OF THIS "RAINBOW-BIRD"