Skinks

the summer has brought out the skinks, which like to run along the veranda amongst the pot-plants and into the veranda garden beds. The plant is a Spider-plant (Chlorophytum comosum) and it's over 60 years old, having been bought by my grandmother in the late 1940s.

Lizard

These black skinks seem to move around the garden. Sometimes they live under the rocks and rose-bush pots near the front door. At other times they live under the steps of my grandmothers cottage, in the shed or in the drainage pipes along our driveway.