2016 is the Year of the Iguana

  I think the Chinese missed an animal. Why pick a rat when you could have a year of the iguana? I love them. They are the coolest creatures. We were at a park in an outdoor area with tables, and a roof over it. On top of one of the poles was an iguana, just hanging out. I saw one in a tree, watching traffic, as we neared home. I had one in my window yesterday. Nothing between it and me except for 4 feet and a pane of glass. Thank goodness for mesh on the open window. Whew. I could admire without fear. But let me tell you, today takes the cake. I've seen all kinds of green ones, I thought I saw a blue one, but it was hard to believe my eyes. Well. Today I saw an orange one. So I started to wonder, and I looked it up. They can change color. How did I not know this? Then I saw another one today, in a tree. But the orange one! It was super fat. Usually they aren't fat at all. It was in the ditch right in front of the house. I need to show you the pictures. It didn't care about us one bit. We walked all around it. I had a lot of time to observe it just sitting there. A little while later I went out there and I thought it had turned green. I grabbed the camera again. Only it hadn't turned green. A green one had hopped on it's back. Some jungle love, right there in the front yard. I kinda felt bad for watching, but it was like my own nature video. If they didn't care, I wasn't going to care. It's like living in a zoo sometimes. Pretty amazing. One week, one month: not near enough.




First he peeked in my window to say hello (big window, big iguana peeping in)


Then I found him running around the back yard under the clothes line.



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