I saw two lizards today. Some 20 miles apart. Not your little green garden variety lizards. These were perhaps 10 inches long with broad, heavy bodies marked gray like oak bark. Mini-dino type lizards. I watched the second one hustle up a tree at phenomenal speed for a creature that size. In 26 years in this part of the world, I remember seeing only one ever before, one a cat had captured.

So. Two in one day.

Like seeing the two painted buntings together a couple weeks back. Feels like a gift.

It’s a hot day but pretty, with white floursack clouds on blue broadcloth sky.