ok, i apologize for my lack of technical magic in my last post, in that the video link failed to direct you to the dancing domestic diva. oh well. maybe that's a good thing.
so instead, i shall share you with my real magic: reptile magic. Seems to be the popular thing these days: I step out the back door on a sunny day, and there, basking leisurely in the spring sunshine that warms that south-facing porch, is some kind of reptile. A couple weeks ago it was a baby copperhead, today it was one of those funny black-ish blue lizard creatures...what are they called, a salamander, or a splink, a sphynx, ooh-ooh, i got it, thanks, wikipedia, it's a blue-tailed skink! (one of the 11 types of lizards in NC!)
Anyhow, what's cool is, usually these guys go skittering away so fast i can barely get a good look at them, but this little guy, he was just a-chillin on the warm cement, so lethargic that i thought he might be injured. I took several pictures from a few feet away, but when he still didn't run away, i knelt down and got closer, and closer, till the little sweetie let me pet his head and back! I watched his legs when he crawled a bit, worried he might be hurt, but no, I think he was just so relaxed from the warm sun on his cold-blooded little body that he didn't even feel like skittering away. Or..he just had a big lunch and is ready for siesta time. Or...I just have a sort of reptile magic. hmmm...what should i name him?? how about skinky.
goodnight, skinky! hope i see you again tomorrow!!
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