Snake in the grass...

This morning, before I had finished my first cup of coffee, Charles called me out to the back yard, and said,"Bring your camera!" I never know just what to expect with that order but I am usually pleasantly surprised! As usual, I was this time, too!

This is what he wanted to show me!
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This is a Yellow Rat Snake. Read about it
Here!

I know it's a non-poisonous snake, and I find it very beautiful to look at...still ...
I am not as fearless as Charles or my cat, Tiger!

I did touch it, though, while Charles held it.

'General' (my hunter cat), wasn't around! Probably a lucky break for the snake!

I was reminded of this poem by Emily Dickinson.

Snake

A narrow fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides;
You may have met him, -did you not?
His notice sudden is.

The grass divides as with a comb,
A spotted shaft is seen;
And then it closes at your feet
And opens further on.

He likes a boggy acre,
A floor too cool for corn.
Yet when a child, and barefoot,
I more than once, at morn,

Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash
Unbraiding in the sun, -
When, stooping to secure it,
It wrinkled, and was gone.

Several of nature's people
I know, and they know me;
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality;

But never met this fellow,
Attended or alone,
Without a tighter breathing,
And zero at the bone.

Junie