I came home late Monday night from production to look up (I don’t know why I looked up) and discover two lizards hanging upside down from the porch ceiling.
What’s interesting to me is that they are pink. Is it because they are on a white ceiling, and the porch light was on? Are they special or just your average Tucson yard lizards greeting me on my return home from work?
Nanu Nanu! Any pink lizard experts out there? Roy? You got any ideas?
This article appears in Apr 3-9, 2008.
Looks like your run-of-the-mill geckos.
Yes, they are House Geckos. Red Star had them in its first house in Los Angeles (in the 1980s, btw) and Red Star (along with Mrs Red Star) has them here in the House of Red Star, here in Tucson. Ours are white to grey, they live in the fringes of the house and come out at night to the porch lights looking for insects. “Is there something wrong with house?” Mrs Red Star wondered. “Nope, not at all” Truly Nolen said, “…leave them alone as they are beneficial, or we can…”
We leave them alone. We accept them; they do their thing, we do ours.
So do you think seeing pink lizards has anything to do with your previous post and your fondness for Grey Goose? HA HA!
We have those guys around our doors too. Apparently a lizard in the house is good luck – don’t know if that extends to the front door.
A lizard in the house would give my (spoiled, indoor-only-unless-on-leashes) cats a stroke.
While these were on my porch, is it good luck when the cat brings them in between her jaws? And Rita, I have found Mezcal to be better for um… seeing things..
Probably not good luck for the lizard….
Mezcal? Ouch I gave up anything related to tequila years ago when I began to not remember the night before.