Monday

[nightdog_barks]

Birds very busy at the feeders this morning -- chickadees and cardinals, including one young cardinal who flapped his wings awkwardly as he tried to maintain his balance on the tray. Also a bluejay who scolded Chango for being in the backyard at the same time s/he was. Heh.

For the past few nights we've had a little green anole lizard come and spend the night on one of the top branches of our Norfolk pine. I'll turn on the deck light when the dog wants out and there it'll be, stretched out and sound asleep. So strange -- I guess it feels safe there? It's always gone by morning.

Sunny and 90 degrees (32.2 Celsius), although it feels as if it's 97. Need to do several housely things today, so. Should get started; in the meantime, I think this is a small but interesting story: Masters student uses death mask to identify portrait of artist JMW Turner. The portrait itself (shown in the article) is really quite beautiful.

Comments

[aries-ascendant.livejournal.com]

I used to love the anoles when we lived in Florida. Then I found out the brown ones out-numbered the green ones because they were an invasive species and had eaten all the little green guys.

Suddenly, they weren't so cute. ;) I got my lizard fix from then on from the geckos.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

*reads up on Green Anoles and Cuban Brown Anoles*

Oh dear. So far we just have the greens around here and they're pretty adorable. The geckos ... they're cute, but they've got that weird almost-translucence thing going on. Eeeee.