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The "summer without summer" continues with fall blowing in early. Sitting outside with the kiddo yesterday we found a garter snake sunning itself (and it was pretty big for a garter snake!). Despite the strong north wind, we hopped on the bike and rode up to the school where she'll be starting…
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Below the fold is the third report from Kevin. This time it really gets interesting, even fascinating! Hunting snakes, rural China, the people....Kevin has interesting observations about everything.
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Here is the fourth part of Kevin's journey. I have just realized that I posted the previous two in the wrong order, thus post #2 should be third and post #3 should be second. I was going by the order in which I received them instead of dates in the journal. And I am doing these things late at…
I saw one on a bike ride this past weekend. I was taking a break and walking along a weeded path when it slithered away from me. It hid its head under pile a leaves with its plumb backside sticking way out for the world to see, and seemed perfectly content that it was completely hidden from my view.
I named it after our cat Coco, who also has a plumb back end and isn't terribly bright about how to hide from humans either.
When the weather turned about two weeks ago, I went to a local creek/watershed with paved hiking trails. I was having to be careful not to run over the garter snakes. They were crossing the trail in groups of four to six en masse, some pausing to warm on the pavement.
I have taken some incredible pics of them on my walks and biking excursions there.