This isn’t a typical Friday Favorite but I hope you can play along …
Grace rides the school bus. Sophie and Matthew love to wait for the bus with Grace. This morning I was coming up the driveway from dropping off the last of the trash at the street and Sophie says “look mom! It is Matthew’s favorite color.” I could see something on the sidewalk but not what it was so I asked her and she said she didn’t know. To my surprise it was a little red lizard.
Well I had to look him up. He is actually a Red Eft which is a young Red Spotted Newt. They are common in this area but like wet areas. I am not sure why he was in our sidewalk and then garden but he was beautiful. The kids loved seeing him and talking about him. It was a good reminder to not touch animals we see outside too.
This morning was a good reminder to take a minute and just wait for the bus and not run out like a crazy mom trying to get Grace on the bus that may or may not be 5 minutes early today.
It’s odd, since most amphibians freak me out, but I find geckos and lizards like this super cute! Such a cool little creature!
I am totally not interested in touching any lizards. Zooming in with my iPhone camera was close enough! 😉 We have other little lizards we see sometimes and they run so fast that they often startle me which means I scream! oops!
What a neat picture. That color is gorgeous! It’s a nice reminder to stop and smell the roses–or watch the lizards!–every once in a while!
How cool and a learning experience. We have little summer lizards on the patio and not sure what they are but they move fast
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oh I love him! So cute! Great picture too!
Wow, he is gorgeous! What a great find!
That is so cool looking!!!
That is a great lesson to teach your kids, life passes by so fast you need to take a minute or two in a day and appreciate all those surprises that we may miss if we are not looking! I think it’s great that you saw the red eft and he looks like he was painted! lol 🙂 thanks for sharing.
Very cool!
Very vibrant color! The newts / efts that I’ve seen around here are much darker red and harder to spot.
He is super cute!!! I love little lizards.
He is beautiful!!!
It’s amazing what you find when you slow down for a moment! What a wonderful reminder. 🙂
That is a great picture! I would love to see that kind of color here in our animals!
How neat! My kids would have loved to see that little guy!
wow, he is cooL!
trisha
That color really pops. Cool pic.