Sounds like a great place, Murphy.

Have you done any spraying for insects around your place? They eat spiders, moths, grubs, roaches and the like. No bugs, no anoles.

Thank you for the response. But no spraying, trying to keep chemical free. Also plenty of spiders, bugs on the plants on and around the deck and porch. I am baffled but hopefully they will return unless as I suspect they were eaten by the birds. Don't know what I will do, counted on them to eat up their share of the bugs. Such is nature and a gardeners life.
Murphy

That's too bad, Murphyzone7. I've recently started to see lizards in my yard, and it is wonderful. Hope your little population returns. Too bad we can't buy and release them, huh?

I can tell you this: If you have snakes that hang around your house, you'll have a scarcity of anoles/lizards.
They're a favorite 'dish' of snakes.