'Roid Lizard

I found this dinosaur-looking guy today.

I had never seen one of these before and I found it to be quite the stud so I went nuts with the camera.

Bear with me while I punish you with eight hundred photos of him.

I could not get a better photo of those fang-like white things coming out of what it seems to be his nose. I thought those where quite unique. Also, he was sticking his tongue out at me...but I could not catch it well either...you can kinda see his pink tongue here a bit.

...and populace...

Tenants...

Or are we their tenants?

These babies are going to get me commited

Yup.

I can see the day when one of my neighbors has me Baker-acted.

See, every time I look for bugs and find these little cuties instead, well...I talk to them. In the way that a normal person would talk to a baby or a puppy. I should have a t-shirt made: "I talk to frogs"...(and toads), perhaps I will.

The Godfather

Godfather of the garden, that is.

Call him.

He'll make you an offer you won't refuse.

Go ahead, I got a skewer with your name on it

Bongo Playing

Solitary Wasp

At first, I thought these guys were gigantic flying black ants. Then I thought they were some sort of cross between an ant and a wasp...finally, I figured out that it is a solitary wasp.

This is the first year I have seen them in our garden. Unlike their cousins, the social wasps, they rarely sting. Another good thing about these guys is that they larvae feeds on, among other things, grubs! So if you see them in your garden, let them be. They are not known to be a problem maker in Florida gardens.

Our native green anole lizard

It is a constant battle for these little guys to survive their nemesis, the imported Cuban or Bahamian lizards. If you ever find tiny soft white eggs that look like a chicken's egg mini-me in your garden, leave it alone, it is most likely one of these guys'.