Garbage Elephant

 The image featuring my post today is "The Plastic Garbage Elephant" a creation by the well known sculptor and artist Lalith Senanayaka in my country Sri Lanka. This creation had been selected by the  national geographic magazine for a children's almanac along with other top artistic creations. This garbage elephant had been mounted on the beach of Uswetakaiyawa in the down south of our country and much admired by visitors both local and foreign. Still there are people who have the vandalistic behaviours and drug addicts and they have demolished the creation and robbed the iron frame or the structure much to the dismay of the admirers , the national news paper "maubima" has reported today.

Ours is a country where there are a lot of elephants roaming in the jungles. With the deforestation for agriculture and housing schemes , when the habitats of wild elephants are fast decreasing , the elephants break into the villages and demolish crop fields of the farmers and sometimes kill innocent people. Due to scarcity of food, elephants even have used to feed on garbage dumps. Therefore there's a big need to manage this issue that every government so far has failed to give a lasting solution. 

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Neighbour's Dirty Cloth.

 A young couple moved to a home in a new area. The next morning, while they were having breakfast, the young women saw through the window of the dining room her neighbour washing clothes outside. Later she saw the neighbour hanging washed clothes on the cloth line to dry. Seeing this the young wife said to the husband " see dear, still how dirty the clothes are after washing, either she doesn't know how to wash properly or she buys cheap soap. The husband looked at it but kept silent. Every time the neighbour women washed clothes and hung them out to dry the young wife repeated the same story. 

One day about a month later, the young wife was amazed to see the beautiful clean clothes on the cloth line of the next door woman and said to her husband, wonderful she has learned to wash properly, someone would have taught her how to wash clothes well " then the husband said, " no darling I got up early today and cleaned our window panes"

 translated into English 

Jak fruit

 This is Jake fruit. Very delicious. Grown specially in tropical countries like mine Sri Lanka". People, both local and foreign,  love to eat it. It can even take as a staple food when eaten raw before it is ripe. This fruit is so special to my country is that there was a person dearly called " uncle Jak " or "kos mama".He was the one who dedicated to propergate this fruit throughout our country when there was a food scarcity long time ago.

Our country is rich in flora and funa. Rich in bio diversity. It has its own sea area ten or fifteen time bigger than the land area. But still we import fish and dried fish. It's said that there's fuel under see bed. But not even a tiny drop is dug out. What an unluck. 

Leaders are extending the begin bowl to other countries. We are beggars living on a treasure trove blindly. All these are political. 

People of our country eat Jak and satisfy their hunger. 

Wild diving

 Diving is a sport everybody knows. Well-to-do pay and send their kids to swimming pools in sport stadiums. It's nice to watch the stylish way the girls and boys dive into the pool. Some trained teams of girl divers even perform drill display on the pool clever than dolphins. But see how  poor village boys do the diving. They don't have diving pools and springboards. Their pool is the river and the spring board is the coconut tree. This is their bathing time fun activity. Though this is dangerous a game the boys know the way. There may be future diving champions among them. It's even more nicer to watch this natural diving than the diving in the pool in the stadum. 

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Narilatha Flower

 Do you believe that there are flowers that resemble the figure of a lady. Believe or not, when you search the internet you may find such flowers. One such flower is Narilatha flower. The publishers of the posts depicting the Narilatha flowers say that these flowers bloom once in twenty years in the dense forests of Himalayan mountain range where hermits meditate in tranquil to attain self enlightenment to get rid of the suffering in the samsara. Even the meditation of those hermits would break by seeing this flower. 

But in reality such flower doesn't exist. It's a myth. 

Dingiri Amma

 There's a saying "old is gold". But does it have meaning for Dingiri Amma. The stages of life like Infancy ,childhood , youth, marriage might have spent happily. She would have brought up children , she might have been employed and earned money and spent for kids, might have had a good reputation in the village. Now today nobody strong is there to look after her. Tears of helplessness are pouring down from the invalid structure. How long will this little boy do his caring for his granny. This is the fate of most of the poor women in developing countries. Poverty is not a condition created by Dyingiri Amma herself. It's political. Not Old is gold for everybody. 

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Resplendent Quetzal
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Resplendent Quetzal is a bird.It belongs to Trogan or Trogondae family. The zoological name of this bird is Pharomachrus Mcinno.As it is a very beautiful bird,it is very famous. It's body is green colour and the breast  is red.The green colour body shows iridescence,that is when angle of view and angle of illumination change,the colour of the body changes from green gold to blue violet. It has a tail longer than its entire body.The male bird has a helmet like crest.The bill of this bird is yellow in mature males and black in females.  it has large eyes that adapt easily to the dim light of its forest home. Resplendent quetzals are considered specialized fruit-eaters, although they mix their diet with insects (notably wasps, ants, and larvae), frogs and lizards.Particularly important are wild avocados and other fruit of the laurel family, which the birds swallow whole before regurgitating the pits, which helps to disperse these trees. Quetzals feed more frequently in the midday hours.The adults eat a more fruit-based diet than the chicks, who eat primarily insects and some fruits.Over fifty percent of the fruit they eat come from the family Lauraceae.Quetzals use the methods of "hovering" and "stalling" in order to selectively pick the fruit near the tips of the branches.
     It is the national bird of Guatemala, and its image is found on the country's flag and coat of arms.That is the garment worn over medieval armor, often embroidered with heraldic arms. Also this bird lends its name to the country's currency, the Guatemalan quetzal (abbreviation GTQ).