Monday, September 8, 2014

This is what the Roadrunners were stalking... and Silly Katie

Today when Katie and I were walking, we noticed some lizards running from bush to bush.  They were little, tiny things, and really pretty - with bright turquoise tails.  This was in the area the Roadrunners were wandering around, and I think these little guys are what they were stalking. 

They were super small and super fast, and I was lucky to get some decent photos, this first shot was really good.  This is one of those times when I just point and shoot, and have no idea what I've captured until I download the pictures to the computer screen.  This is the first one that came up - a really lucky shot:



These little guys are called Blue-Tailed Skinks, also known as the Five-lined Skink, and have an expendable bright blue tail when they are young that fades as they get older.  Isn't he pretty?  (It looks like more than five lines, though...  I might have the ID wrong.)
 
It looked like their heads are tinged with some turquoise, too, but I couldn't find anything on-line about the color on their heads.



Next, a couple of shots of Katie - first, every night before she goes to bed, she gets a treat of a spoonful of peanut butter that I put in a Kong, and she licks it out.  She sometimes pesters me, but I don't get up to fix her treat until after 7 or so.  Finally I'll say, "Doooo youuuu waaaaant......."  and she looks like this, waiting for me to finish the question:

And then I finish with, "PEANUT BUTTER TREAT???"  And she goes crazy!  It doesn't take much to entertain us!!!

Her latest thing...   she's been sleeping on my pillow lately, and I hate to climb up into the bunk and lay my head down on a warm pillow.  So I've started putting a throw pillow on top of my pillow so she has to lay down somewhere else on the duvet.   This is what she did the first night I put the throw pillow up there:

"I don't see you, and I'm ignoring this stupid pillow!"


"I still don't see you...and this isn't very comfortable.  How do I gracefully get out of this one?" 


I finally told her to get off the pillow and she laid down over in the corner and started licking her leg, poor baby:




There are some pretty flowers and flowering bushes here in the parking lot of Sandia Casino - this one was a single yellow bloom that I thought looked kind of like a rhododendron blossom.


And finally, some gorgeous photos of the sunset the other evening:



From me and Katie, have a great Monday evening, everyone!  :)