Death comes swiftly.

Part of the reason were gardening organically is because we don't want to harm living things. But we want to eat what we grow, and try to keep them away from birds and critters.

We put netting over the strawberries only to find a dead lizard that choked itself to death on the netting today before I got home for lunch. Screw it. I'd rather let the birds, lizards, and insects eat the strawberries than have a beautiful lizard die. He/she was about 4" long and a beautiful metallic shade of blue. We gently cut the netting away from the body, and buried it in the front where the lizards seem to congregate.

I'm so sad. We've never had a bumper crop of strawberries, so perhaps it is better that we admit defeat on this one.


Go ahead birds. They're all yours.

RIP little guy.