My mom freaked out, finding a lizard hiding in a bucket in our garage today, and asked me to get rid of it. So I put in in the grass and trees by the sidewalk. The poor thing probably was using the bucket as a refuge, to recuperate after giving up its tail to a predator...maybe even in a fight.
It's amazing how many details you notice only when you're looking at a live animal in real life. I've been drawing from reptile photo books I bought as references, but there were details I only noticed when I looked at that lizard today. Like the line of thorny scales, fringing the sides of its belly. And feeling the expression in its eyes.
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