Gazing Into the Toad Hole

Lizard and Bougainvillea

Daddy Longlegs Spies An Acorn

First Chard Pick of the Season!

Going on the burgers tonight in lieu of the cabbage that is going bad.

Pot o' Pintos

Caterpillar Looking to Pupate

I relocated this one back into the yard to avoid pupating on my patio somewhere.

Anole on a Bay

Fat Lizard Rescue

I'll be glad when summer is over so I'll no longer need to be on constant lizard patrol. Sweet Pea loves to catch them and bring them to the patio and usually they only have a small bloody wound, if even that much. But if I don't intervene it gets worse.

This poor guy lucked out. And what a fat little whopper he is!

Emerging Cicada

Thursday Night Cicada Blogging

Oven-Ready

Casserole with home-grown cherry tomatoes ready to enter the oven.

Bagworm

Click to embiggen.

And there's more! Fifty seconds of video so you can see it move a couple of times.

Hairy Legs (& Lots of 'Em)

Just saw a small tarantula on the kitchen patio as I went to pull the muffins out of the oven.

Tuesday Toad

I think he or she knows there's a good chance of rain. By the way, how do you distinguish the he-toads from the she-toads?

Summer Harvest