Strutting his stuff...

We went to Waimea Falls the other night  and while we were eating dinner,

the Peacock decided to open up to his full glory.  The poor Peahen, she really

is quite plain next to him.

A visitor...

Yesterday at school we had a visitor who liked a stack of papers.  When Mrs. L started yelling that she just

couldn't touch it, I thought it was a cane spider (yikes!).

No, it was just a gecko who had wandered inside.  One of the kids tried to get him, but no luck. 

I was able to get him on a paper, but I have to admit when he started climbing up my hand it was weird. 

All I could think about was "what if he got under my sweater sleeve?"

(mahalo to mr and mrs pirate for photo)

Oh, the wonders in our yard...

(I had to get a pic off the web, our guy is too high up in the tree, but he looks like this one)

Hubby has been trimming (nothing new) in our yard. He called me out to see what he'd found in our Crown Flower tree. We called the neighbor girls over and Ash, our resident tree expert.

It was a "short nosed chameleon"

We have lots of brown geckos, green geckos, all kinds of stuff turn up, never anything like this.

He's about 8 inches long and seems very happy to stay high up in the tree. Which is fine with me.

Oh, the country life!