I'm cleaning out the cellphone camera tonight and thought I'd share a few.
Grey Rat Snake
I found this fellow laying on a pin I needed to locate. I tried to shoo him away with the shovel, but he was having none of it. I ended up holding him down with the shovel in the right edge of the photo and taking this pic. That offended him enough to make him leave.
Meth spoons found at the rear of a lot in a nice subdivision.
So nice of the fence guys to build the fence over the obvious pin.
Rough Green Snake
Apparently these are common in my area, but this is the first one I've ever seen.
Proof that the survey gods have a wicked sense of humor. I set mag-nails in this street for control 4 years ago when I staked the houses. I reconned the site while preparing a quote for additional work a week before this photo was taken. I received the go-ahead on the job 1 day prior to the photo. The paving crew was pulling out when I arrived to do the survey.
Calvatia gigantea - aka Giant Puffball
This one weighed a couple of pounds and was about the size of a cantaloupe. It was solid all the way to the center. Evidently they decay into hollow balls full of spores as they mature.
Twisted square bar used as rebar.
I found this on a abandoned industrial site. Parts of the site date to the mid 1880's.
Very interesting pics.
The new pavement one made me chuckle and shake my head a bit.
Thanks Stephen!
You're lucky. In my area the fence builders just pull up the pin and dig the post hole where the pin was. That even happened on MY lot. GRRRRR!!
Andy
Great pics.
Ah yes Andy, they do the same here. If I'm really lucky they'll put a chain link fence post right beside the corner and pour concrete over it. And then if I'm really, really lucky, I get a neighbor who says I can't use a jackhammer to recover it.
Some of the more "conscientious" fence installers will even replace the pin where they think it should be.:-P
Have a great week!:-)
Nice pictures,
looks as a fine place to survey, but I don't like the snakes!
Pins and fences! It must be the same problem all over the world,
thanks for sharing,
Chr.
Nice pictures. Last June we ran into a Copper Head, and a Cotton Mouth (same day) in SE Kansas. Funny no one wanted to get close enough for a picture. I offered the use of my camera lol. We did get a nice picture of a badger (we were smart enough to take the picture safe inside our truck), but I can't find it or I'd share.
Just love the fencing contractors who are either being "thoughtful" or just wanting to not take away the "rubbish".
RADU
