snakes. However, the sudden appearance of one can still get my heart going a little faster.
I was sweeping with the metal detector for a corner yesterday around some little scrubby looking cedar trees when I looked up and saw this about eye level and 3 feet away.
It's a cell phone pic so you may not be able to discern it. I circled it in red.
A small non-poisonous snake sunning across the upper branches.
That made me take a quick step back.
I really need to look at getting a cell phone with a better camera in it.
> snakes. However, the sudden appearance of one can still get my heart going a little faster.
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> I was sweeping with the metal detector for a corner yesterday around some little scrubby looking cedar trees when I looked up and saw this about eye level and 3 feet away.
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> It's a cell phone pic so you may not be able to discern it. I circled it in red.
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> A small non-poisonous snake sunning across the upper branches.
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> That made me take a quick step back.
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> I really need to look at getting a cell phone with a better camera in it.
Oh you can see it. FORGET THAT. DEAD SNAKE! DEAD SNAKE!
I was going back to the truck to grab something I had forgotten. I passed by a tree and involuntarily jerked to the side. I thought "that was weird" but proceeded to the truck. On the way back, I passed the same tree and jerked once more, again, involuntarily. I stopped walking wondering if a seizure was coming on and that is when I spied the snake coiled in the tree bough right at eye level. "Oh, that's why!" I wasn't consciously aware of it's presence but some part of me perceived it and told my body to change course just a bit.
Give me a Brown Bear any day of the week over something that silently slithers around, hides in trees, and is camoflauged.
> A small non-poisonous snake sunning across the upper branches.
Eeeef!!!! :-O Me no likey snakes sans tiny garden snakes. :-S
Years ago I was cutting line through a portion of overgrown farmland that had been subdivided into lots. The traverse line was crossing an internal fence line that was over grown with honeysuckle. Unbeknownst to me there was a black snake lying along the honeysuckle and as I put my hands on the fence to cross I grabbed the snake and it moved. I think I crossed the fence without touching anything else.
I've got a row of tall bushes running along my house. My wife washed a few coats a few months ago and hung them on the front porch to dry. Well, that night we had a big wind. The next day she could find one of her coats. I did find it a couple of days later in the bushes behind the house. Well, it was hanging about chest level. I reached up and grabbed it and a snake fell out. I'm not sure if I've ever thrown anything down as fast as I did that coat.
Now I've killed a few snakes in my time, but never coated one.:-|
You took his cloaking device? I bet he was pissed (or hissed?....gave him a hissy fit?).