Hee!

I haz lizards! Two (that I've seen) that like to hang out on my front screen door at night, presumably to hunt. One's clearly an adult, and the other is almost as small as a gecko, so I'm guessing it's only a few months old. :) I can't find a good picture to help me identify them, though--the underside is a pale green, and the last inch or so of the tail (toward the tip) is banded, but that's about all I've seen of them.

Also? I kind of love that when you do a Bing image search for "Texas lizards," most of the first ones to pop up are of Texas horned lizards--aka horny toads. :D

Just 'cause...

A friend reposted part of this poem the other day, and it came back to mind just now... I know I've posted it here before, but good literature is always worth rereading. :)


As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came.

Í say móre: the just man justices;
Kéeps gráce: thát keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is—
Chríst—for Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men’s faces.
--Gerard Manley Hopkins