Basking in the sun

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I see these skinks often recently now that it has gotten warmer.  Often is perhaps too weak a word for it.  They are all over the place.  Well, perhaps that was too strong a phrase.

I found this lizard sticking out its upper body out of the small cracks of rocks, basking in the sun, right in front of the house.  If I approach it carelessly it will hide in the crack immediately, but if I approach it slowly and not startle it it just stays there.  Must be really warm in the spring sun.  I want to do the same, but if I bask in the sun the day will be over before I know it.  Being a mammal, I cannot quite live like the reptiles.  Unfortunate.