A 'Chamelion', Karandana, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

This type of garden lizard changes colour on being provoked.

Japan Roses - Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Flowers in our home garden.

Scorpion orchid flowers, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Beautiful flowers in our home garden.

Passion flower and fruits, home-garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

It is a creeper which bears fruits the size of a lemon. The jelly like contents are used to make cordials and jams.

Musical chairs, Play-school children, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

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Bit of horse-play, Playschool children, Avissawella, Sri Lanka, 2013.

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A 'tug-of-war' among children of a play-school, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Part of the Sinhala-Tamil New Year Celebrations for the year 2013.

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Trying to smash suspended pots of water blindfolded, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Part of the Sinhala-Tamil New Year celebrations for children attending a 'Play-School' in Avissawella. The child is blindfolded and is given a carboard roll to smash some suspended pots of water.
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Play-school games, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

The position of the eye marked on the outline of an elephant.

Blind-folding the young contestant.

Making an attempt at marking the position of the eye with a marker.

A part of the Sinhala - Tamil New Year festivities for the children of a Play-school at Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

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A race for the girls at a Nursery New Year Celebrations, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Mushroom, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

This appeared overnight in our home garden and was gone in two days.

Scenes, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Kelani Valley Railway line near Avissawella.

A spiders weave on the top of the grass catching the early dew and waiting for prey.

'Bird's nest' fern leaves unrolling, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Young leaves of the 'Bird's nest' fern unrolling in our home garden at Avissawella.

Scenes at Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

View of an Anthurium.

Flower plant growing on a coconut husk.

St Barnabas Church - Anglican - more than 100 years old, Aviossawella.

Scenes Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Hand-sewn door mats being sold across the railway line close to Puwakpitiya.

Our home-garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Black Pepper berries.

Purple-colored chillies.

Flowers on a thorny shrub.

Scenes, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Broad-gauge Kelani Valley line close to Puwakpitiya.

Remnant rails of the old narrow gauge KV line remaining on the newer broad gauge line.

A child with his treasures.

Scenes around Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

 A black-smith working his hearth at Avissawella. The bellows used to blow air into the hearth must be more than 100 years old. It is simple and fool-proof.

The present Railway-station at Avissawella. This was a junction in the old narrow gauge Kelani Valley Railway days. One branch went to Yatiyanthota and the other past Rathnapura to Opanaike. It served the tea and rubber estates well during its heydey. Now it is widened to broad gauge and runs only from Colombo to Avissawella. The old Government Hospital, the Rest-House and Post-Office were clustered around it. There was also a fuel depot storing Petrol and Keroscene oil.

The old Market at Puwakpitiya still active on Pola days. The old-timers say that this once served as the Magistrates courts. The old Chunnaklam market in Jaffna has a similar architectural design. Note the granite pillars in the periphery. 

The bud and the flower

Seen in our home garden at dawn.

Panning for gold at Aswaththe, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Quite a crowd is dredging the bottom of the Kelany Ganga near 'Ranwala (Pit of gold) at Avissawella, Sri Lanka for meagre gains.
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