Birthday Lizard!

Can you #FindThatLizard?!

It’s my birthday this Sunday so for this week’s challenge, I wanted to reflect on my love for lizards and why I wanted to share that love with all of you.

I wasn’t always obsessed with lizards. In fact for most of my life, I didn’t even give them a second thought.

My earliest memories of lizards are catching them with cousins when we went to a family reunion in North Carolina. I’m pretty positive we were catching green anoles and eastern fence lizards.

It wasn’t until I got to college that I started taking lizards seriously. That’s when I was introduced to Yarrow’s spiny lizard, Sceloporus jarrovii. One of the first things I learned about them is that the females don’t lay eggs, they give live birth. It is still one of my all time favorite lizard facts.

My time on social media showed me that I could use my platform to get people to pay closer attention to lizards and on a greater scale, the nature around them. All I’ve ever wanted to do was to help people connect with nature so that we could live in a world where there was no need for conservation because we just live in a world that cares about the environment.

I know that I can’t change the world by myself. My hope is that through this fun little game, I recruit you all as co-conspirators and we change the world together.

I hope you #FoundThatLizard! Let me know in the comments.