Hello. AJ here. Busy-as-a-bee Amber asked me if I’d fill in for she and Jason on this month’s introduction duty. After she grudgingly handed over a pile of cash, I agreed.

Mirth Cay’s presentation of the 14th edition of the House of Herps carnival is now up at her Humble Abode Encompassed by an Actually-Rather-Insignificant Cluster of Trees blog. As the submissions are apparently grouped by type of hallucination – auditory, tactile, olfactory, visual, and gustatory – I’m assuming they have something to do with the range of narcotic effects induced by licking the secretions from the various subjects’ bodies. Additionally, the…what? Oh.

Joy K., on her Little House in the Not-So-Big Woods blog, has presented House of Herps #14 with a theme involving the five senses. Basing her categorization on the dominant sensation elicited by the photos and descriptions, Joy introduces each submission with a vivid fluency capable of transporting every reader to a similar state of experience.

(By the way, next month’s edition will be hosted by Philly Herping.)