On our trip to buy property in July, 2000, we drove back out to look at the first lot
we considered. As we were walking around it in the late afternoon I almost stepped
on this little snake (It's a good thing I like to look down when walking to see what's
on the ground.). After I took the picture, he slowly crawled away.
On a hike up Glassford Hill 4/18/07, my friend and I ran across this gopher snake. Notice
how he is coiled and how he has a triangular head, similar to a viper. Gopher snakes
often flatten their head when alarmed to mimic a rattlesnake. They can also expel air
and sound like a rattler.
This gopher snake was in our neighbors' yard.