I have always been a nature lover. My hands in the dirts - worms, frogs, penny toads. My favorite in Minnesota were the black and yellow spotted salamanders. I loved how they felt.
I surprised some when I was a teacher w/ the salamander someone passed on to me as well as herbit crabs and bunnies. They thought I was too prissy for those things. They should see me now!
I think these are some of the most beautiful lizards I've seen, that's not saying much coming from Las Vegas where pretty much everything was brown (even our cardinals!).
We were house sitting and spent some time following this guy around. I've not seen one of these pretty things around our house. That's good, as our cats would probably be playing ping pong with them and then India and I would spend the rest of the day trying to resue it and nurse it back to health. Ahh, gotta love nature!
From my grandma: those cute little Geckos, they are not dressed up like the ones in the commercials on TV. When we lived where Steiner's lived and your mom and Marcia was young we had so many salamanders. It was the first time I had ever seen them. Don't ever remember seeing them in WI. At night they would come out and our yard in the back where the cement patio was it would be solid, don't know if it was because the cement was warm or what. I really didn't care for them. I am sure you would have loved picking them up, you little nature girl. I am surprised you was not a science teacher.
ReplyDeleteYes there were that many Salamanders. Your mom and I talked about them yesterday after getting your e-mail. We had them for a couple of years and then all of a sudden they were gone and we wondered if we might have had an exceptionally cold winter and they froze out.