For as many photos as I have of Carolina anoles, I can easily recall the circumstances of this one, because of the distinctive ‘comma’ pose (helped by how it was framed, I’m sure.) I’d gone through the NC Botanical Gardens for a while and had seen not the faintest hint of anoles, which was rare, and I was on my way to the parking lot when I spied this one clinging a little awkwardly to a flowering sprig – that one hind toe seems to impart a faint hint of precariousness (incorrectly, as it turns out, because they can sleep hanging upside down from those same toes.) The soft lighting, the sharp eyes, the emphasis on one color, and even the implication that the anole is focused on something else that isn’t the photographer, just add to it. So we get to see it again.
