Lizards And Leftovers

I need to run through some more images from Costa Rica until there is an opportunity to shoot new material back here. (There is something on  tomorrow.) Going back over the files, I found this. For some reason it got past me on my first review. This was taken during a night walk in the Monteverde cloud forest with a superb local guide. How he finds these little critters in the dark, even with a flashlight, is beyond me.   

Desert Critters

I'll be doing back-fill from the trip for a while but there's lots to show. 

We normally think of the desert being dry as James Bond's martini, but it it weren't for water all the fantastical shaping of rock would be impossible. We happened upon a little spring-fed stream that created its own ecosystem. This frog was as tiny as it was beautiful. A short distance onward brought us a more expected lizard. The two critters were near each other but a world apart, unlikely ever to meet.  

STL DPB In Kansas: Lizards Invade Lutheran Church!

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The Kruse family was having a business meeting at the end of the reunion Sunday (phlueeezzzeee somebody agree to be chairperson) so I went wandering, looking for something to shoot. I saw this in a window next to the exit. Yikes! It turned out that it's a plastic toy, left here by my niece's toddler. Um, so what's the right term for his relationship to me? Remember, I'm just an in-law.

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