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DIonysia, the Lizard-Lover

As I wrote this article, something cold and clammy skittered across my bare knee, raced across my desk and disappeared into the darkness. Was it a big palmetto bug, one of those huge tropical roaches? I went back to my writing. But when I next looked up I saw a big green lizard perched on my desk, staring at me. It was a big anole, half the size of the lizard you see on Apollo's tree. It was one of countless chameleons that roam my yard and, when the sliding glass doors are open, may enter my house. I do not mind. They eat roaches, and other small insects. They are cute and clean. And I like to see them again as they move from room to room, changing color to match the color of the walls. From garden green to indoor beige; or, like the big fellow I found the other day in my bathroom, whose walls are covered with jet black tile, from green to black.

Now that I've taken the bull by the horns and removed this pet paragraph from my Apollo article, I must mention my all-time-favorite lizard: the fabulous Chinese Dragon, nearly two feet long, with its splendid, hallucinogenic yellow-green skin and orange-yellow crown! Hope I can find a photo of one; otherwise readers will wonder what I'm smoking!

This is the closest I could find on Google Images. But he's no Chinese Dragon, not the one I've seen, with a golden crest or crown.

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DIonysia, the Lizard-Lover

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