With a humming feeder, you get hummingbirds. Then you get the nectar feeders who can't hover, so you add little white caps for their sugar water. Then you get the big nectar feeders whose balance on the twine spills all the sugar water, so your friend adds a brace for the feeder. Then the lizards notice you've provided them a bridge to the feeder.
When the tanager hordes arrive and you spend the entire weekend protecting the humming feeder and the hummingbirds and the sucriers and the orioles and the lizards from them - using a hose - that's when you realise you're in way too deep.
German Shepherd dog standing on a window ledge looking down at me. The front half of her body is completely out the window. There is wrought iron to prevent her from falling far, and plant with red flowers twines in it. At the very bottom of the picture there is a lizard of the type that lives in the garden.
form on a website asking "May we ask whether you're a lady or gentleman?"
the options are "A lady," "A gentleman," "My dear sir, there are individuals roaming the streets of Fallen London at this very moment with the faces of squid! Squid! Do you ask them their gender? And yet you waste our time asking me trifling and impertinent questions about mine? It is my own business, sir, and I bid you good day." or lastly, currently selected, "One of the aforementioned squidpeople."
A small guardian of the ground.
Patient, alert, and perfectly blended into its surroundings – a reminder that in nature, survival often means mastering the art of staying unseen.
Sketchbook page of drawings of 6 Geckos in blue pen. The top of the page has the text Gecko and 7/1/25. The top drawing is of a leaping gecko with the text Leap! Below and to the left is a leopard gecko's face close up with its mouth open and an exclamation point. To the right is a gecko from above with its mouth hopen. The bottom left is a closeup of a gecko smiling and a heart. To the right is a gecko licking its eye. At the bottom right is a gecko standing.
#Iguana... or "how many types of scales could one #lizard have?!" :blobcatjoy:
On real photos it looked similar to this and I tried the best to copy that chaotic patterns.
Realistic, rather close portrait of a big iguana. It has mostly yellow scales, with more gray on face and row of spikes along its spine. Scales on iguana's face and neck are also much bigger than on the rest of its body. There is blurry grass in the background.
This one should be a #dragon.... but it's more like #lizard. I tried to recreate some art I made in my dream :blobcat_amused:
I remembered it was similar style, looking like several layers cut from coloured paper put one on another. Kind of many distinct 2D layers, together pretending to be 3D object??
But in that dream it also looked more dragon-like even if general body shape of that #creature was similar to this...
Digital drawing of a dragon-lizard, with long body, only upper half contained in frame. It's bright green, with red belly side. It has some spiky scales on its neck and along its spine. There are big leaves in upper left corner and small plants in bottom right. In the background is tree bark made of vertical darker and brighter lines. All colour shades are clearly cut.
A cartoon illustration of a lizard holding an old shed skin on a hanger looking at his attic which is full of other old skins hanging on racks. Caption reads "He didn't really have a good reason for doing it but he'd been saving his old skins for years."
Today's Mathtober prompt is "Minor". For this one, I went with the vernacular meaning, and added some baby penguins with a 'grown up' penguin for today's #inkyDays drawing.
Hand drawn generative/procedural art in ink on an open page of my sketchbook. The abstract pattern looks like an adult penguin with three baby penguins.
A beige-colored fish with orange lips pauses on an underwater reef. It has fine cross-hatched markings on its body and light-colored pectoral fins marbled with dark brown. Its surroundings are rocky and faintly pink in color.
**ACHIEVED 1ST PLACE IN FAA CONTEST - Skinks Lizards Snakes and Crocs in Australia - finished October 2025
Central Bearded Dragon photograph captured at Billabong Zoo, Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia.
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[Courtesy Wikipedia]
Pogona vitticeps, the central (or inland) bearded dragon, is a species of agamid lizard occurring in a wide range of arid to semiarid regions of Australia. This species is very popularly kept as a pet and exhibited in zoos.
Family: Agamidae
Genus: Pogona
This dragon is native to the semiarid woodland, arid woodland, and rocky desert regions of Central Australia. They are skilled climbers, and often spend just as much time perching on tree limbs, fence posts, and in bushes as they do on the ground. They spend the morning and early evening sunning themselves on exposed branches or rocks, and retreat to shady areas or underground burrows during the hottest parts of the afternoon.
Under the Namibian sun, everything comes alive — even the tiny creatures that blend perfectly into the rocks, visible only to a patient traveler’s eye. Nature reveals its beauty in the smallest details, if only you pause to look.
Did you ever ride the teacups at Disneyland? Me? I’m not sure. I know I went there once as a child and saw the teacups spinning like pastel whirlwinds, but I don’t recall actually getting on the ride. We were there for the Matterhorn, I think—but that too is a wisp in memory, a snow-globe shaken and faded with time.
It’s one of those things: you feel certain you’ve got a grasp on the past, but there’s always the chance the memory is wrong. Our minds are tricky. Hmm... I could’ve said “brains” there, in the not-hungry zombie sense.
Is there a difference between brain and mind? My take: the brain is the hardware, the mind is the software—or maybe the app. The brain runs the body’s systems, while the mind handles thought, ideas, dreams, fears, memories, and self-awareness. There’s overlap, of course, and I’d argue you can’t have one without the other. Except—there’s no thinking without a brain. But you could still have a non-thinking brain. Me thinks.
So what happens when the brain stops functioning completely—when it dies? Logically, the mind, the consciousness, vanishes. Poof. Gone. Not here anymore. Doesn’t exist. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
But... is there more? It’s comforting to think so, even if it’s not logical—unless you’re in a science fiction story where minds are freed from the burden of biology and float off into the cosmos. Anything is possible, I suppose. Maybe that’s where belief steps in—to help us embrace the illogical with open arms.
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” — Guy de Maupassant
“Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive—it moves, it changes.” — Louis Malle
“Our reality is an infinite battle between what happened and what we want to remember.” — Haruki Murakami
"A green anole (Anolis carolinensis) clings vertically to a weathered redwood post, its body stretched in a head-down pose that suggests both alertness and ease. The lizard’s skin gleams with a vivid, almost tropical green—smooth and unblemished, like a fresh leaf after rain. Its limbs extend outward with delicate precision; each toe tipped with adhesive pads that allow it to defy gravity on the post’s upright surface.
The redwood post itself is aged and textured, its grain running vertically in soft striations of reddish-brown and gray. Faint cracks and sun-bleached streaks give it a sense of quiet endurance, like a sentinel in the yard. The anole’s tail curves upward in a gentle arc, echoing the post’s vertical rhythm and adding a sense of motion, as if the lizard is mid-pause between movements.
The background is bright and overexposed, rendering it a soft wash of light that isolates the subject—lizard and post—like a portrait against a glowing canvas. The scene feels intimate and ceremonial, a moment of stillness in the daily choreography of a creature perfectly adapted to its perch." - Microsoft Copilot with edits by the photographer
Sketchbook page of drawings of 6 Geckos in blue pen. The top of the page has the text Gecko and 7/1/25. The top drawing is of a leaping gecko with the text Leap! Below and to the left is a leopard gecko's face close up with its mouth open and an exclamation point. To the right is a gecko from above with its mouth hopen. The bottom left is a closeup of a gecko smiling and a heart. To the right is a gecko licking its eye. At the bottom right is a gecko standing.