Monday, September 24, 2007

Nocturnal visitor

And for once, I don't mean the kids :)
This little guy was hanging out on the dining room window a few nights ago. I put the big window picture in for some element of scale...the lizard was translucent enough to see the "guts" show up, darker. Pretty cool.



In other news, a friend from IC was here on her way through town...she's actually the daughter of our former childcare guy, and it was wonderful to see this sweet, kind young woman! She left us some prickly pear fruit syrup, which is simply gorgeous. I haven't tried it yet...

The fruit on the plant:
The fruit processed into syrup:

Grandparents J will be here soon. Weather is lovely (highs in the 90s, cooling into low 70s, high 60s).

My sister is getting settled in Jaipur. Her description of the city's smell was this (hope you don't mind, A):

"It smells like dust, sweat, incense, rotting garbage, All Out (mosquito killing plug-in), hot cooking oil, animals (pigs, cows, and dogs), garlic, paan (look it up on Wikipedia!), fruit, beedis, ganja, sometimes cardamom, sometimes jasmine, leather, phenol...Oh, I also forgot urine and petrol fumes..."


1 comment:

Michelle said...

I'll have to send you some of my pics of random lizards on random windows of our house, Bryce says that means the weather is a-changin!