The day of the Lizard

"I don't like em"!   While taking a winter walk Monday, Bianca

spotted this metal lizard attached to  a tree.  It was
a startling vision that made her suddenly jump to
my side.   It's OK its just  pretend - not real, I
told her  but she had a new mantra as we walked on.
'I don't like lizards - I don't like em'  She couldn't
quite shake it.  There are those who
 like every scurrying, slithering and multi-legged kind of
creature and some that really don't - I think I'm in the don't camp.   Not that I harbor ill will
towards any living thing!
 After all, I go through all kinds
of effort to scoop up spiders and return them to the great

oudoors rather than do away with them.   I didn't want Bianca to get the idea there was anything wrong with lizards though so good luck brought us to another in the form of this engraving as we reached the Longfellow creek trail.  Look another lizard - I could see a hint of interest and a slightly less vehement statement of 'I don't like lizards'.
When we returned home, Bianca pointed out my very own not real lizard that I had draped over a handrail and forgotten a while back.   It has been out of her reach but at eye level for her for some time and now she had a new reason to be interested.  Maybe they are not so bad after all...