What’s Missing?

Vermont has lots and lots of stone and it’s been used as a building material for a couple hundred years now. In Springfield, my old home town, you can find stone walls like this everywhere.

Look at all of those wonderful nooks and crannies! As you know if you’ve been reading this site for any length of time, around here anything like this would be filled with lizards! In Vermont, where it’s covered in snow and ice and sub-zero temperatures for big chunks of the year, there wasn’t a lizard to be seen.

But life will fill any ecosystem. I finally spotted an occupant – a chipmunk! Cuter than your average lizard I guess, especially since we humans do seem to be partial to mammals when judging “cute,” but I missed my little “Freds” and “Bubbas.”