I haven't seen one of these in years and years, so when youngest son called and said he'd found one while working in his yard I had to go have a look. It was very restive, so I grabbed my camera and macro lens. A tiny treasure ...
We had blue tailed skink in our yard in IL quite often. The first one we ever saw was quite big. We have skink in NC, too, but not with the pretty blue tails.