old timers ~ dickwella market

bored kids! ~ dickwella market

hands ~ dickwella market

Papaya & spice, and all things nice.

palm-tree squirrel

haputale tuk-tuk

Ablution block.

a homecoming.

a couple of days after the wedding the lovely couple come home to celebrate.....

yo bro!

lipton's seat

to Lipton's seat.

Dambatenne Lower; the children.

Dambatenne Lower; fathers.

Dambatenne Lower; mothers.

it was about 25 degrees C.

it's a kids life?

hmm. a long walk to school (see switchback road below cutting thru the tea fields)
and homework?
winnowing mustard seeds.
will it catch on back home?

the tea fields

relics of colonial days

St. Andrew's church and Adisham (a roof of teak tiles from Burma & walls of Aderdeen granite). profit there was in tea.

Haputale hands.

Haputale: on the edge.