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First effort using the Colette Ceylon dress pattern. Had to do a full bust adjustment - that was a challenge, considering the front yoke and front bodice pieces were separate, just joined them temporarily ensured the front yoke and front bodice seam allowances overlapped as if they were stitched together, then did the FBA, filled in the gaps with pattern paper and then separated the pieces again!! Thankfully, the dress came out okay!!
Ceylon is a small hamlet near Geneva and Berne, Indiana.
I took a brief day trip yesterday with my old Canon Powershot Pro1.
It felt good to be out and about after over a month inside.
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Ceylon Frogmouth, also called Sri Lanka Frogmouth, is a scarce endemic resident in South India and Sri Lanka. The Frogmouths are a group of nocturnal birds mainly found in the tropical forests. The Ceylon Frogmouth is a highly adapted forest bird with froglike croaking call and shape of the head. At night, it hunts insects and beetles with its large gape.
Frogmouth is about 23 cm long. It looks large-headed, and has a large flattened hooked bill and huge frog-like gape. The female is rufous, lightly spotted with white. The male is grey and more heavily spotted. Frogmouths blend brilliantly with the surrounding of its day roosting perch, and roost everyday at the same location. The flight appears weak and fluttery.
Ceylon Frogmouth
Frogmouths build nests on woody climber, dense branches of trees or wooden platforms. They lay 1 or 2 white eggs, which both sexes incubate, usually the female by night, and the male by day. Frogmouths sleep horizontally or lengthwise on the branch of a tree with their heads up and eyes closed. While sleeping no one can easily identify or spot the bird because of its specific colour which perfectly matches with the colour of the surrounding. Frogmouth is best located at night by its song, which is a loud descending cackly and frog-like series of Klock-klock-klock-klock-klock calls. It has the quality of sound produced by rattling pebbles. This is the call of the male and it is often answered by the female whose call is low long harsh Krrshhhh.
Ceylon Frogmouth was first recorded by Dr. Salim Ali in 1930s in Thattekkad. Later it was rediscovered in circa 1990 by ornithologist Dr.R Sugathan, from the same sanctuary. Dr. R Sugathan the famous ornithologist and a student of Dr. Salim Ali.
Maker: Charles Scowen (1852-1948)
Born: UK
Active: Ceylon
Medium: albumen print
Size: 8.7" x 11.1"
Location: Ceylon
Object No. 2014.784
Shelf: A-52
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Notes: Charles Thomas Scowen (11 March 1852 – 24 November 1948) was a British photographer active from 1871–1890, working in Sri Lanka and British India in the early 1870s. By 1876 Scowen had established a studio, Scowen & Co in Kandy and by the 1890s, he had opened a second in Colombo. His work, which included landscapes and portraits of Malay women, is noted for its lighting, technically superior printing, and strong compositional qualities. Scowen's photographs are represented in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. He became a tea planter before retiring and returning to England around the turn of the century. He died in Sudbury, Suffolk, aged 96.
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This is my lovely daughter Mahri with her husband Ross in Sri Lanka this August just gone, on their honeymoon.
I don't know the elephant's name.
My Mahri has been fascinated by elephants ever since she was a tiny tot and getting out to Sri Lanka to see them in the flesh was the icing on the cake after her wedding to Ross.
AND she actually got to ride on one!!!
I didn't take this pic as I wasn't allowed to go on honeymoon with them, but I did steal the jpeg from her camera and tart it up to look like they were some old-time explorers... I printed it off and gave it to them for Christmas.
They look happy don't they :-)
For over a century Ceylon tea has held its sway as the best tea the world through. With its unique characteristics, flavors and aromas, dependent on a myriad of climatic conditions, plantation environments and elevation, and even processing procedures; tea grown in Sri Lanka has created for itself a reputation synonymous with quality.
Scientific name: Basella alba,
Khmer name: ជន្លង់, ជន្លង់ស,
English name: Malabar spinach, Ceylon spinach,
French name: Epinard de Malaba, Baselle blanche,
Japanese name: ツルムラサキ ,
Thai name: ผักปลัง, ผักปั๋ง,
Korean name: 인디언시금치 ,
Russian name: Базелла белая, Малабарский шпинат,
Chinese name: 落葵, 天葵, 木耳菜, 胭脂豆, 豆腐菜 ,
Vietnamese name: Mồng tơi, Mùng tơi, Mùng tơi trắng.