Katherine was sitting at the dining room table doing her pre-algebra, and I was only a few feet in front of her, in my rocking chair on the veranda. She whispered to me, “Mama, look! There’s a lizard. On the kino tree.” Sure enough, somehow while working math problems, this creation loving girl had spied a bright green lizard, hanging on for dear life as it enjoyed the all-you-can-eat buffet of insects hovering around the flowers.
We observed at the reptile hopped on to the hot dog shaped blooms, then Katherine began to warn the critter as it climbed lower and lower in pursuit of more breakfast. As the lizard reached the bottom, the last few flowers let go with a quick ride to the ground. She said, “I told you so, Mr. Lizard!”. We giggled, and then got back to work. What a sweet respite in the midst of our school day.
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