This is the 1st thing I saw amidst the squash this morning. I had deep watered the squash yesterday with a soaker hose. When I saw this I reached out and tweaked it thinking is was a piece of the soaker hose. On closer look this appeared through the squash leaves.
A common Kansas garter snake! I am unreasonalby afraid of snakes. To put this in context, I once as a young girl tried to run through a barbed wire fence to get away from a snake. Well at least what I thought was a snake. I had two stripes of scar on my upper arm from the barbed wire for many years. I was in New Mexico visiting my cousins and everyone had briefed me on the rattlesnakes in the area. Of course I saw one.
I irrated the snake trying to get a picture of him smelling me - tongue out. So he went away which made me more uncomfortable since I didn't know where he had gone.
This is my best picture of the snake flicking his tongue at me.
I irrated the snake trying to get a picture of him smelling me - tongue out. So he went away which made me more uncomfortable since I didn't know where he had gone.
This is my best picture of the snake flicking his tongue at me.
