Right outside the men's bathroom at the end of today's hike.

OH MY GOD!

IT'S A SKINK!

Cool skink! How big was it? Did your kids pick it up?

We have lots of blue skinks around my house. We love having them and the geko's around. They help keep down the billions of insects coming out now.

It was maybe 6-8 inches long. We didn't try to pick it up. In the back of my mind, I remembered that their tails can come off easily to evade predators, and I didn't want to be left holding a bloody tail. And I didn't want to try to grab it near the mouth. We did surround it, with me on one side of the fence and my son on the other. And it would scoot under the fence to get away from one of us and be in plain view of the other. We chased it back and forth like that for a minute or so before it finally stopped trying to use the fence for cover. It was pretty cool. Fast.

Can those things hurt you?

:biggrinha

no.

I've got some huge ones around here. Some of them have colorful stripes, but the reddish ones are much larger.

Delicious piece of red velvet cake from Holt's Bakery in Douglas, Georgia.

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Great shot!
Douglas is a quaint little town.
Now they got cake.
There goes the neighborhood.
God only knows what's next.
Could even be one of them concert things.

Yum!

Outclassed as I am... I offer you this.

I'm taking photos of "simple pleasures" to enter into a comp run by an organic breakfast cereal company.
As their company branding is mostly yellow I figure this laburnum might have a chance. It's not an all-out photo comp, just has to be good enough to go into their gallery.

Okay - for the record? I don't think my pics are good enough for this thread, let alone a competition :( But this pleased me.

Beautiful.

Bridal Falls off of Highway 50

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