Okay, fixed it. Darn my dad and his wonky Facebook settings.
SNAKE. (also fixed the linky up above)
Right. Sir. Honey.
Zoe ,'The Train Job'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JZ - Feb 07, 2011 9:01:58 am PST #21570 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Lee - Feb 07, 2011 9:04:35 am PST #21571 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Okay, one more longer one, and then maybe I will go do something useful with my vacation day.
FCM:
DB Woodside
J August Richards
Jesse L Martin
Eric Close
Seamus Dever
TJ Thyne
Neil Patrick Harris
Gareth David Lloyd
Jospeh Gordon Levitt
Gwen Stefani
kd lang
Mary Jay Blige
tommyrot - Feb 07, 2011 9:04:45 am PST #21572 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
SNAKE. (also fixed the linky up above)
Yep, that's a snake.
(Sorry - my snake knowledge is rather limited.)
beekaytee - Feb 07, 2011 9:04:51 am PST #21573 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Wow. That is a SNAKE. When I read 'baby-snake', that is not the image that popped into my mind.
Mad PROPS, JZ for keeping your cool.
sumi - Feb 07, 2011 9:07:27 am PST #21574 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Wow. Difficult to say - I mean, I googled and apparently gopher snakes use their resemblance to rattlers as a defense.
Theodosia - Feb 07, 2011 9:08:01 am PST #21575 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
We need a "What is that snake?" website to answer this sort of question.
Mad props to getting a picture of it!
Cashmere - Feb 07, 2011 9:08:21 am PST #21576 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
JZ, I'm leaning towards gopher snake only for the sake of the shape of the head. Rattlesnakes has the more spade-shaped head of a viper and your dad's photo looks more like the elongated shape of the gopher snake.
Checking the ranges on this site reveals most rattlesnakes' ranges are in Southern Cali, rather than up in the Bay area.
tommyrot - Feb 07, 2011 9:08:56 am PST #21577 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We need a "What is that snake?" website to answer this sort of question.
Or a "Rate my snake" site.
JZ - Feb 07, 2011 9:11:39 am PST #21578 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
It was my dad who got the picture. He also got a couple more with a regular camera-camera about half an hour later, when the snake was feeling a little more relaxed and had gone back to stretching out and sunning itself on a nice toasty rock. I know there's one reasonably good picture of the head, which would probably be a lot more useful for ID'ing purposes. I should give him a nudge.
Honestly, I think snakes are pretty awesome, and if it's a gopher snake I want it to go its merry way unmolested. But if it was about to venomously bite my Matilda I want the fucker nuked from orbit.
Lee - Feb 07, 2011 9:11:41 am PST #21579 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
JZ, is that the position the snake was in when it was rattling? If so, I think it's not a rattler because I *think* the tail has to be pointing up with rattlers.