Anole

This little anole friend was hanging out on a barrel.  He slowly turned from brown to green.

 

Visiting Anole

She looked like a wise little dinosaur.

She's a green anole, even though she was brown right then.  Anoles can change color depending on their mood. (See here)

 

Lizard wall

There is a nice warm brick wall at Durant Park.  The lizards come out whenever there's sun.

These guys look like they're playing follow the leader.

These two just wanted to laze around.

They're green anoles, even if they aren't green.  (see here)

 

Little green friend

High up on a tree trunk, this little anole watched us walk by.  

 

Green friend

The anole matched the ivy.  She looked like another leaf.

 

Dragon

This anole looks like a dragon to me.  Maybe it's the dark color against the red bricks. Or is it his evil eye?

 

Anole

He stopped to look at us, turned from brown to green, and scurried off.

 

Brown on brown

The little anole matched the leaf litter.

 

Color change magic

We saw this little anole, looked away, and a few minutes later...

She had changed her color.  

Green again

The anoles feel safe in the holly bush.  Nothing would want to attack in all the spiny leaves.  He still wanted to scare us away with is dewlap though.

He seems very curious about us, and watched us closely.

Mr. Anole turns color

He was green as he climbed out of the bushes, and was turning red on the bricks.  

Why a wall?

This wall is a backdrop for sculptures at the NC museum of Art.

This wall holds back the hillside.

The anoles sun themselves on this wall.


Robert Frost said in his poem Mending Wall:
Before I build a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.

Camoflage

I found this anole hiding out on the brick wall.  I've found her before, green on green leaves.  This day she was hanging out on the red bricks.

Ms. Anole returns

She was NOT happy with me.  I followed her across the driveway, into the holly hedge with my camera.  She scampered along flashing her dewlap.  She was brown on the driveway, and started to become more green on the holly.  She's a she, because she has a pinkish dewlap, and a white stripe on her back. See here.

Anole

This long tailed visitor was in our bushes.  She posed for quite a while for me.  

I know she's a she, because only the females have a white stripe. They are native to the south, so she could be a native.  Or she's an escapee since a lot of people keep them as pets.