Take Time To Watch The Lizards

I feel I am one of the lucky ones because I live in a partially rural area. It was zoned for horses. I am not sure if it still is, because I see less and less of them around lately. I thought it would be fun to adopt a wild donkey and go for walks with it. Maybe I could train it like a martial arts donkey or attack trained donkey. However I do not know the first thing about the care and training of donkeys.

At Christmas my father gave me a birdbath and I put it outside my office window. It was fun watching all the birds who would stop by for drinks or a bath. That lead to getting a bird feeder. So now I have even more bird visitors. Even migrating birds are stopping by.

It is fun to watch the birds. I feel in this day when going to be out in nature involves a longer drive, added expenses, having to pack something to eat, not being able to take my dog, paying to park out in nature, wondering if someone will break into my car while I am out hiking…and anything else like finding a rattle snake in a bad mood; it is really easy to talk myself into staying home.

The older I get the less of natural woman I become. I wonder why. Maybe that is why pioneer women did not live too long, they just looked like they did.

So now I can have that bit of nature right outside my window.

I was talking to a friend in the St. Louis area of Missouri today when I saw this lizard in a tree. It is hanging out with the birds and is about as big as a house finch (fancy name for sparrow or I think they might really be in the finch family). It was really cool to watch this guy or girl.

Well the guy from St. Louis started telling me about his city encounters with Possum, Falcons, and rabbits in his back yard. They were definitely memorable experiences for him. It seems that talking about nature and your experiences (if even from your backyard), are always a common thread that draws interest. It is difficult to find people who do not enjoy sharing or listening to tale of tails or animal tail.

My father is an animal lover, and has donated more money to animal charities then I think he even spent on me. His yard is like a nature preserve with natural landscaping and plants to attract animals. It is so relaxing to visit there. I see beautiful landscaping in magazines and his landscaping can compete with several of them. He has a master gardeners degree and it shows. To me it is yard work, and to him it is gardening.

I think as long as he can be out in his yard he will always be happy. I remember growing up and he would come home from work and disappear in the yard. It was what he loved to do. When he was not working…oops, gardening, in our yard he would be helping other people with their gardening.

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