I love staghorn ferns!
When you walk into the Fern Room in the Garfield Park Conservatory and turn left, there are a whole bunch of them on the rocks there.
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Beautiful.
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my mom used to work at Cheekwood botanitcal gardens in Nashville which has a lot of stonework interiors. they have staghorns growing right on the walls throughout.
love that planter.
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When I was a kid we lived in Hawaii, and a hotel was built not more than a mile from the house we rented. Visited the hotel on a trip years ago (which was 30 years after), and was impressed with all the orchids growing from the wall surrounding a stairwell.
(not my pictures; just google image search)
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I’ve been there! It’s lovely. I especially liked the outdoor sculpture tour, which includes a James Turrell installation: https://cheekwood.org/explore/art/sculpture-trail/james-turrell/
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cool.
man, the last time I was there I was probably in high school.
me and some of my delinquent friends may have gone a few times after that to smoke weed in the Japanese garden, but that wouldn’t have been past like 95. I don’t think that installation was there then, but I like stuff like that.
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Hurricane day visitor. Our home is host to a large population of Plestidon fasciatus and one of Plestidon inexpectatus. This is the fasciatus, a juvenile. Probably a few months old.
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Anoles? I love the Latin name - makes it sound as though the lil thing is a big dinosaur.
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skinks. I haven’t seen an anole on the house yet, oddly.
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She looks more like a 2-year-old! 
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You know, I haven’t seen an age-size curve for them. They start biggest than I thought - a clutch hatched in my garage about a week ago and they’re already about 6 cm, a full third of their mature size. The mother of the clutch is enormous. She must be 24 cm. So really, this one could be two. Or younger, or much older.
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You missed the wink!
I was referring to the lovely young lady observing the skink.
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Ah! Yeah, she’s five and off school due to the hurricane. All of us are home all week. Might send her and her brother on a lizard census.
Not a complaint to be home and safe, but it’s a lot of togetherness.
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I read about this in H. Allen Smith’s book about his tour of the American West, back in 1949. Wall Drug was around back then, even!
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