Ittiest Bittiest Lizard Ever
I was sitting on the front steps drinking iced tea and reading “Fire Study” (and a big thanks to the people who recommended the trilogy! Have devoured it completely.) and I happened to glance over at my tea and saw the teeniest little blue-tailed lizard darting away to one of the flowerpots.
He was maybe two inches long, much of it tail, and given the numerous varieties of skink in our area, all of whom have juveniles with blue tails, I cannot possibly tell you what specific species he was. He was teeny. A skinklet.
He was also fixated on my water glass.
I probably spent half an hour there reading and sneaking looks over at the skinklet. He would get closed to the iced tea, sniff around it, notice me and scurry away. His toes were finer than needles.
Finally I snuck a glance over and discovered him carefully licking condensation off the sides of the glass.
I was reading on my iPad and had take the photo with it, and I couldn’t move most of my body without spooking him, but here’s what I managed to get.
I wish I'd been able to get a photo of the tongue.
That glass is a half-size tumbler. The skinklet was WEE.
Stuff like this is why I keep reading on the front steps of the house, even if I do get bit by mosquitoes a lot.
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