Visiting Higher Up

August 2011

Little lizard was between my plants on the outdoor counter opposite kitchen.
© Joy Krauthammer

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Blew It

July, 2011
OK, I blew it; left open the back yard screen door, maybe an inch for a minute. I was lazy, not careful. Opportunity was taken and the reptilian creature entered my domain, right by the large open book case filled with everything else but books  (music, photos, teachings...) His tail looked like he's escaped from elsewhere. Where is he now?  I am not happy. I don't want to find him curled in my fuzzy slipper, nor anywhere else.

(I think I enjoy much more, the recent guests this month at my home: bunnies and nesting doves.)
http://joys-inthemorning.blogspot.com/

BlesSings, Joy
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SURPRISE, Prisoner Again

Legend of Lounging Lizards, continued
2/21/11

SURPRISE

I was so happy that I was no longer a prisoner of my own house.

Pudgy baby lizard by my bedroom window
(c) Joy Krauthammer

I felt free to leave open my back door as I went outside for only a moment. 

NOW I can not.

They have intruded, trespassed.
I used to love the lounging lizards. I was overly concerned for them.

I went out to see the clouds and photograph. I examined the growing citrus and baby buds, the green rain loving artichoke plants and bright yellow daffodils.

Coming back in, there they were; a medium sized lizard (maybe last years) and a baby lizard scampering on my back porch and onto my house wall by my window, behind the wood irises, protected.

Maybe I'll see the lounging lizards again sun/light bathing under my lantern.

Oh, my. I thought they were gone, and now, NOT.

I know I scared them, just as they surprised me. Why me?

Only the other day I consciously felt a sigh of relief that the lizards were no longer my guests.

For a few months, I have not seen them.

There are also no more visiting cats, only cat poems from my pen.


BlesSings, 
Joy
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