Sandra - you can upload to Photobucket. It is free and if you have the Internet, you don't need any special program. You can go to the Photobucket website and set up an account. It will make your life so much easier if you want to use this site for ID!

I would like to suggest that you can remove it and cut it to go back into your compost pile, but it's such as healthy and thriving plant that did well even without your care. Might be having awesome potatoes!

I hate to spoil the fun, really I do, but there is a very good reason not to use volunteer seedlings. They can carry or encourage diseases, specifically viruses, that have no effective controls. I have personal experience with this and went for years without being able to grow any type of squash because I had a virus in my soil. All I could do is wait and hope it went away. Eventually, I established a new bed and have been careful not to transfer soil from the contaminated beds into it and I have my zucchini and pumpkins once again. Most likely the virus came from a volunteer seedling that I let grow in the bed that then became contaminated. But don't take my word for it ... For tomatoes: "Destruction of volunteer plants is an important practice in the control of several diseases, because it prevents large populations of pathogens from surviving from one cop to another. Crop rotation also works to prevent crop to crop survival of specific tomato pathogens." https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/vh056 And for the squash family: "Destroy volunteer cucurbit plants. These can harbor cucurbit disease organisms." http://www.ag.ndsu.edu/pubs/plantsci/hortcrop/pp656w.htm

It's a salamander. By slender salamander they don't mean any old salamander that's kind of thin; there is a group of salamanders literally called slender salamanders, and they look just like that. They're all over California and not much further range than that. They're so sedentary that our best guess is they accomplish all of their migration by riding the tectonic plates on their slow journeys; a home range of 4x4 feet is about right for them.