Monday Photo of the Week...

It's getting harder and harder for me to think of things to photograph for our Photo of the Week challenge. So I wandered around my yard this weekend looking for something, anything to photograph. Flowers? Done that. Palm trees? Done that, too. The sky- lord knows I've take enough of those. No neighbors out doing anything interesting or funny to take photos of this weekend.


But then I spotted this gecko (really an anole, but I like the word gecko better- it's a cuter name-hee hee) enjoying the day and blissfully basking in the sun. I got this first shot of him... (CLICK PHOTOS TO SEE FULL SIZE)

...and then he got bashful and tried to hide behind the spider plant-

When he realized I could still see him, he jumped over to the trunk of my artificial palm tree that I light up at night. Notice how he lightens or darkens his coloring depending on what he happens to be on at the moment?

Getting more annoyed with me by the moment, he then leaped over to the trunk of the corn plant.

He seemed to think that if he stayed perfectly still I either wouldn't see him, or would grow bored and lose interest in him.

When that didn't work, he decided to display his dewlap for me. When displaying, they bob up and down as if doing push-ups and inflate their bright reddish dewlap. They display to seduce a mate or warn off other anoles from their territory.

I doubt he found me attractive and wanted to breed, so his display was most likely to scare me off.

I then took pity on him and left him alone to enjoy the day and get back to his sun bathing. The photo below shows the places where I took his photos. Since he stayed in this small area, I wondered if he had a girlfriend close by hiding in the plants.


Peace-

Linda