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In my last post, when I said that I saw this little guy, I called it a guy since I knew it was a male. You see the skin underneath the throat is extended? The anole that we saw had this red throat outthrust in the same way...therefore, a male. That flap of skin? There is a name for that, it is called a "dewlap". Interesting, I had no idea that there was a word for that!
Gee, I have so many things that I could blog about, and I am talking about the skin underneath a lizard's throat! Here, I have a photo of Richard's threadleaf coreopsis and it has been spectacular!
Take care everyone! Hope you all have a lovely weekend and maybe one day, I will be able to visit all the great blogs that I like to read!
No need to rush, Kay - all those blogs will (most likely) still be there when you get round to reading them :-)
ReplyDeleteYou know me, I love learning about such interesting detail like the skin under a lizard's throat.
My weekend will be partly spend studying; final exams next week Friday...!
I love learning new words but I know that not everyone shares my enthusiasm but I know you do!!
DeleteI love how I learn new words here on your blog, Kay and "dewlap" is definitely new to me. Thanks for so many interesting little facts.
ReplyDeleteThank you, dear Mairead! Hope all is well with you and you are having a good summer with your kids!
DeleteAnoles are fun to watch as they scramble up the outside walls of the house, or in our Sega palm. We love having them around as they eat the ugh! bugs.
ReplyDeleteAnd you and I both know that in the South, we have plenty of BUGS!!
DeleteThose coreopsis flowers are pure sunshine! Happy first day of summer, Loi
ReplyDeletePS - And now I know what a dewlap is :)
Hello! Lovely to see your comment here! You would love the coreopsis, right in our own front yard! Coreopsis grows wild here also, although it is a different type, it even grows on Arabia Mountain! Look out for a post about it!
DeleteDewlap, you gotta love a word like that!
Hey, it's interesting to me!
ReplyDeleteTerry, you are a gal after my own heart! x
DeleteYikes, yours is the third blog this afternoon that I've seen that spam on, Kay! How irritating! We all do the best we can to read our favorite blogs. And I would hope that blog readers understand when life piles up! I'm just catching up after returning from vacation. "Dewlap" was in the book I've been reading, and I thought it was loose skin under the neck, but I didn't want to stop and look it up ~ so thanks! I'm reading "Independent People" by Halldor Laxness, and it was a cow that had a dewlap. I never would have read this book if I hadn't been desperately looking for something to read in Reykjavik. I can't stand not having a book to read, and most of the books in the store were in Icelandic. I'm so glad I found it. It is excellent!
ReplyDeleteHappy summer, Kay!
I had it on my blog, too, but deleted it instantly.
DeleteHey Louise!
DeleteYEs! I think I read that you notice a dewlap on cows and rabbits also!
Iceland reminds me of Greenland, and that reminds me to tell you to read "Frozen In Time", I did a post about it! Oh, and Reykjavik reminds me that you need to watch "The Very Thought of You" with Joseph Finnes, so romantic and sweet!
Goodness, I have given you a book to read AND a movie to watch, what a bossy boots I am!
And I would have deleted that long spam but I had to work on Saturday with no access to my blog!
Thanks for the recommendations, Kay! I've written them down! Spammers really irritate me, and I felt sorry that you and other bloggers had that item popping up. What a pain! I hope you get to relax today ~ so sorry that you had to work on the weekend! Take care!
DeleteLovely pictures! I relish your nature shots now that we don't have a single tree behind our house. Trust you are doing super my friend :)
ReplyDeleteDear Janice,
DeleteLovely to see your comment here, my friend! I am so sorry over the loss of your trees, truly I am! Get yourself to a park as often as you can, for yourself and for your kids!! I know that you will!
Once again, lovely to hear from you. Take care. xx
I've heard about people having dewlaps, old people whose cheeks sag :( or sometimes a bulldog or something like that!
ReplyDeleteI had never heard of the word until I tried to find a photo of the anole with his red throat extended! (Richard tried to get a photo but the little lizard was just too quick!) It is a bit sad how much I like learning new words!
DeleteMy husband would have fun with a word like that. I can hear him singing it now: Dewlap, oh Dewlap, oh dew remember me!
ReplyDeleteThe flowers are gorgeous. And so are the ones in your header.
Thanks!
DeleteFunny thing, I have been singing "Do Lord" all week long! And I started to even put that on here from YouTube, but didn't since my readers already know how corny I am!
And by the way, I always have liked the "Do Lord" song, very much!
We see lots of lizards when we visit South Texas, but I had no idea how to tell the male anoles. I can now use dewlap with confidence. Haha. I hope your weekend went well Kay.
ReplyDeleteYes, and if you ever win tons of money from that word with a trivia question, you will let me know and thank me, right?
DeleteHope you had a nice weekend too!
These flowers are so cheerful. I like the threadleaf variety better than the "regular" sort. In Hungary the kind that people grow is one with a mahogany center and an almost orange outer part. It's name translates as "the eyes of your betrothed" and I always wondered why anyone would be marrying someone whose eyes look as though they have an advanced case of jaundice.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Kristi!
DeleteWe have some more coreopsis to show you also! There are some that grow wild on the roadsides and they also grow at Arabia Mountain. They have almost finished blooming but I will do a post about them soon!
Funny about the translation of that flower, it sometimes tickles me the way that flowers are named!
What a beautiful, cute little lizard...and the yellow, sunny flowers are a ray of sunshine. :)
ReplyDeleteHe is a welcome sight, just as the flowers are for us, they are right beside our walkway to our front door!
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