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Well, they continue to taunt me, and grandma is beginning to wonder about me talking to myself, and them...
"I am going to get a picture of you!!!"
Oh, man... I really should at least feign sanity.

Virgil drinking, yesterday. He was looking at me between the time I clicked the camera button, and the picture took. They're so fast!!


VIRGIL!! I got ...

Lifelike, bristling with joy.
A surreal jaunt of subtle drops,
fades in a mist of tiny particles,
resting on the edge like broken pebbles.

While water stands as an emerged tower,
resembling a fresco of man covered in expanding ripples,
the waves of turmoil flow down its column
in layers of water, cooling down a bright sunny day.
And so the burning cold saturates adequately
the feeling of promised joy.

With emerging ...

Yes, I like to write poetry. I hope it isn't too boring.

I started back to school this week. I teach. I hope I learn, too, but teaching is my job. I had been really dreading it, but it was O.K. There is going to be tons of paperwork; I don't know why they think that will make things better, but that appears to be the case. I got to look at my class rosters and it looks like I will have a fair number of students that I had last year, which is good. They were sweet and bright and funny ...

I've moved in with grandma, and there is a hummingbird feeder outside my window...
Now I have become determined to get a perfect picture of the cute little couple. And for some reason, I am reminded of Litnet by my new pursuit.
Here is a picture I got this morning of the female in the rain...


The male gives me the most inquisitive looks when ...

I was just getting ready to head for bed when I happened to witness something rather interesting. My lizard has exhibited a behavior I have not yet seen before which is both intriguing and amusing.

I have deduced from watching him previously that it seems he hunts primarily from sight/motion. It seems that he can only really something of it is moving. Sometimes it can be quite funny, when I feed him he will sit on his rock and wait, and when one of the crickets catches his attention ...