Looking For The Lizard

It’s 12:44 and 88º – do you know where your lizard is?

Do you want to play the game? Do you want to look? Go ahead. I’ll put some spoiler space in here for you.

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While the lizards love the sun, they more like just being warm, and if that wooden edging piece is in the full sunlight it gets toasty, so they can snuggle up against it and hug it like a giant body pillow, sucking up infrared photons through their little, blue bellies.

Which means they can hid in the shade.

With their little heads poking out over the edge to keep an eye out for hungry predators.

You can see in the other photos that the roots of the big tree are just a couple inches behind him. As soon as I twitched, he was off the edging and onto that big root, where he blended in almost perfectly. Another twitch by me and he as climbing up the tree and making his escape.

That’s how you get to be a six-inch lizard or a ten-inch lizard instead of a two-inch “popcorn” hatchling.