{"id":16897,"date":"2009-04-05T21:02:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T01:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16897"},"modified":"2014-12-12T09:49:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T14:49:55","slug":"the-wonderful-lizards-of-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/05\/the-wonderful-lizards-of-ours\/","title":{"rendered":"The wonderful lizards of ours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons I love living where I do is that Spring seems to come with more omens than it does in cities. (Who knows? Maybe it&#8217;s just that when I used to live in them, I wasn&#8217;t playing as close attention.) In any case,  today I saw another sign.<\/p>\n<p>I always look forward to the moss starting to  green up, and the bulbs blooming, each in turn. I&#8217;ve already seen the first toad.  New bamboo shoots won&#8217;t start coming up for several weeks, and the first turtles likely won&#8217;t appear until May or June.  But today, while clearing wood from the swale, I noticed this little guy leaping around:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lizard20091.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lizard20091-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"Lizard20091\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lizard20091-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lizard20091.jpg 523w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And about a half an hour  later, distant enough so that we knew it wasn&#8217;t just the same creature, Irene spotted this guy:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lizard20092.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lizard20092-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"Lizard20092\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lizard20092-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Lizard20092.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is how I like to see animals, not in cages, or under glass, or in zoos, but out in their own world doing their own thing.<\/p>\n<p>I imagine that  the first snake isn&#8217;t  far behind &#8230; but we&#8217;ll try not to think about that too much for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the reasons I love living where I do is that Spring seems to come with more omens than it does in cities. (Who knows? Maybe it&#8217;s just that when I used to live in them, I wasn&#8217;t playing as close attention.) In any case, today I saw another sign. I always look forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16900,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16897\/revisions\/16900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}