While trying to get photos for the little story about coppicing and seeing nuts on a branch I avoid cutting, I wanted phots to show how the tree is now coming out, up, and around from where it was chainsawed 2 or 3 years ago. Just luck that some sort of newt or lizard (maybe not a gecko this time?) came up onto the coppiced part.. I can't remember the names of all the different lizard-like creatures around here. Some kids I saw yesterday had one that may have been a different kind. They were outside with bug nets with a teach from the after-school facility (and Saturdays too to meet the needs of over-worked parents...) The teacher was telling the names of 3 different lizard-like species.. I generally can only remember two YaMori (Home Protectors? because the geckos eat bugs? around the house?) and IMori (a longer darker shinier kind that you don't see in or on the house so much just among the rocks and bushes around the house... Or maybe I'm thinking of the KanaHebi? Whatever is not a gecko I just refer to as Imori... If I should be more vague/ambiguous to avoid mistakes I should just call them snakes with legs so people know to allow for my ignorance, I gues..)
I feel an affection for the little creatures, harmless as they are. That affection usually helps me avoid the urge to catch them and let the chickens to their imitation of Jurassic Park with them.
#Lizard #LIzardLikeCreature #NotAGecko #イモリ ?
#カナヘビ ?
#Newt #NewtLikeCreature #WalnutTree #Coppice