Lizards Across the World

This rainbow lizard was spotted in Northern Florida and Southern Georgia and is unrelated to the following story. This next lizard lives or died in Singapore.This one time when we were little-ish my dad told us that women wear geckos as earrings on some other continent by letting the lizards clamp their toothless mouths on the the ladies’ earlobes. In my family you show you’re interested in the story and seek further information by saying, “No way! Not a chance! You’re making that up!” Thus challenged, my dad proved it by sporting earrings in the form of the three-inch chameleons that run all over everything in Texas and eat bugs and get partially eaten by our cats every summer. Delighted, we cheered, tried it ourselves and showed all the neighbors. There are similar but slightly bigger and browner geckos all over my herb garden here, but they are very skittish = no photos. I’m not sure why…no cats are around to turn them into delicious summer treats. And I don’t really see a market for lizard earrings at our next Dining Out.
The above lizard ran across the Bahamian Post Office sidewalk after Chris and I sent postcards to our families to tell them we were engaged. But the real question is…why the heck do I have so many photos of lizards?