Flashes of Panic

My family sometimes refers to the Canada geese becoming more common on the lake behind our house as “tourists” or “immigrants,” mostly because of their name, but this morning in Medford I saw a real non-native hanging out in the sun.

We were walking back from running with a grad student over at the University, and I looked over at the open door of an art studio along the way. Sitting on a table outside the door was a massive lizard, easily on the order of four feet long. I assumed it was prop of some kind (I think there’s a scenery shop in there somewhere) until it moved.

Based on my web research, I think it was an iguana, not unlike this one, but larger. It was a little surprising to see, and I found myself wondering how fast an iguana can run.

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