With a jolt stronger than caffeine, I became fully and instantly awake when I saw this fellow outside my kitchen window one morning. He was more than five inches (13cm) long. He hung around for a few hours, where he may have enjoyed numerous instances of seeing a human startle. Then we got used to him and at some point he was gone.
The WordPress Photo Challenge was Angular.
I love to discover creatures who are not pets in the spaces that humans pretend to claim – although the experience is always bittersweet, because it reminds me of how invasive my species can be.
Walking Stick on a sidewalk in Pasadena, California.
Toad on a walkway, Punta Gorda, Florida.
Gecko on a restaurant wall at breakfast-time, Punta Gorda, Florida.
Apparently geckos are omni-urnal (?). Here is one on the wall of an outdoor bar, late one evening.
Green Lynx spider on a wall outside my house.
Rattlesnake fleeing a trail in Griffith Park, California: hauling ass to escape from the numerous hikers and mountain bikers who have stopped to snap photos or otherwise ogle it.
Young alligator fleeing our car in Arcadia, Florida.
The WP Weekly Photo Challenge is to show “one”.
Required Writing 