@mellielong, that is beautiful! There's a guy at a local festival that sells bee supporting stuff and he had one of these. He explained that it's attractive to carpenter bees. Those are kind of my favorite because they are so friendly. I've heard that you can actually pet them! And they can be very large and fuzzy too!
And thanks for teaching me what a skink is! I was so sure it was a typo until I looked it up!
