{"id":35220,"date":"2023-08-30T01:20:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T05:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=35220"},"modified":"2023-08-30T01:20:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T05:20:10","slug":"scratch-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/08\/scratch-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Scratch that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I said (yesterday, more or less) that the little anole on the front hydrangea knew what it was doing in choosing a concealed spot to sleep?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/D-Minus.jpg\" alt=\"juvenile Carolina anole Anolis carolinensis sleeping almost vertically on wet oak-leaf hydrangea Hydrangea quercifolia leaf\" width=\"750\" height=\"1226\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35221\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>Let&#8217;s see here<strong>:<\/strong> centered directly on exposed leaf, not even adequate cover from rain, failure to blend in with background, near-vertical position&#8230; D minus. The only credit it gets is for being centered and potentially blending into main leaf vein, but I could see this guy from the <em>road<\/em>, so&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And when I say near-vertical, I&#8217;m not kidding<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ItsLevel.jpg\" alt=\"juvenile Carolina anole Anolis carolinensis sleeping almost vertically on wet oak-leaf hydrangea Hydrangea quercifolia leaf\" width=\"750\" height=\"582\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35222\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>I backed off a little to do a more establishing shot, and ensured that the camera was held dead-level, so you weren&#8217;t seeing any odd camera angle in the previous image. Didn&#8217;t even pick a leaf that had backup beneath it. Ah well.<\/p>\n<p>I took a quick peek out back too, and found nothing until I was on my way back in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WaitingForMe.jpg\" alt=\"green treefrog Dryophytes cinereus perched on storm door\" width=\"750\" height=\"981\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35224\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This guy looked like he was waiting for me to return, so I made sure I got a decent portrait before I went through that same door. And as I did so, it turned to face me still, probably entranced by the headlamp, but hey &#8211; <em>maybe<\/em> the desire of fame was that great.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DontGo.jpg\" alt=\"green treefrog Dryophytes cinereus peering forlornly through storm door glass\" width=\"750\" height=\"914\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35225\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>C&#8217;mon, how was I gonna pass this up? Makes me think I gotta check the pet store to see if they have frog biscuits&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when I said (yesterday, more or less) that the little anole on the front hydrangea knew what it was doing in choosing a concealed spot to sleep? Yeah. Let&#8217;s see here: centered directly on exposed leaf, not even adequate cover from rain, failure to blend in with background, near-vertical position&#8230; D minus. The only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[531,4081,6854,2505,2671,2670,7365,7364],"class_list":["post-35220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-anolis-carolinensis","tag-carolina-anole","tag-dryophytes-cinereus","tag-green-treefrog","tag-hydrangea-quercifolia","tag-oak-leaf-hydrangea","tag-portal-tempestus","tag-storm-door"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}