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.
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.
Or a "Rate my snake" site.
Though you might want to make sure you have safe search on before googling for one.
kd lang is hot. Plus she and I have similar tastes in cars. Once I was on a "classic cars for sale" site and ran across (IIRC) a '63 Mercury Monterey (not her actual car) she was selling. That would have been so cool to buy a car from her.
Normally, I hate this game but you picked a few of my weaknesses this time:
FCM:
DB Woodside c,
J August Richards f-oh yeah!
Jesse L Martin m-my man!
Eric Close f-longtime crush,
Seamus Dever c,
TJ Thyne m-him or Hodgins, I'm not sure which, but I love this guy!
Neil Patrick Harris c,
Gareth David Lloyd m-how could I not!
Jospeh Gordon Levitt f-even though it would be total cougardom
Perkins, no, it'd lift its tail to rattle. Not
up
up, but definitely off-the-ground-not-touching-anything up.
Okay, just that picture made me yell and jump back from my computer. I don't like snakes.
Sigh. It's the deadline to appeal my prperty assessment. Other than "Seriously you think is worth what???" I am not sure how to proceed in this.
Hmm. I'm out of information then.
I saw an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake in the wild a few years ago. I was about three feet away from it and it was extremely mellow. The good thing about rattlesnakes is that they prefer to escape rather than strike, if they can. It takes a lot to provoke them.
I'm not saying they're cuddly or anything, but a lot of breeds are endangered.
JZ, You are one cool mom! I'd wait till you have the better picture of the head to identify it. But, I'd start making M wear shoes outside and bless the teacher who told her to be wary around snakes!
