'Ruk-Aththana' - S, 'Mukampelai' -T, Alstonia scolaris flower, Sri Lanka.

The yellow 'Ruk Aththana' flower is used in Budhhist and Hindu temples to do pooja. It has yellow fleshy petals and adorns a lot of gardens in Sri Lanka. I took this photo in my garden at Avissawella.

Hunnasgiriya peak seen from Kandy.

The town of Kandy is surrounded by mountain peaks. The peak of Hunnasgiriya, on the old road to Mahiyangana through Teldeniya, is one of them. I took this picture of the peak from Kandy.

Peradeniya Botanical gardens, Sri Lanka.

There are many lovely sights, in the Botanical gardens at Peradeniya. This is one view I took a picture of, in the 1980s.

Sleeping on a rock heated by the sun.

In the villages in Sri Lanka, a very relaxed lifestyle exists even now. A bath in the river at mid-day after washing one's clothes and a snooze on a bare rock, wearing a loose sarong, with the gentle breeze wafting the body, is supremely pleasurable. The sounds of nature assail the ears and one is in a dream land. When the clothes have dried in the mid day sun, one wends home for his simple rice and curry meal. Jak and bread-fruit with a twangy chilly sambol, adds relish to the meal. What else do you want in life? The picture shows a snooze on a bare rock by the river-side.

The 'sun-flower', Gannoruwa, Sri Lanka.

The sunflower is cultivated for its seeds from which oil could be extracted. The flower is large, yellow and beautiful and tracks the sun in its journew from dawn to dusk.