encountered on the road home from Powell, Wyoming.
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June 25th, 2006 at 6:22 am
YUCK, YUCK, YUCK!!!!! You are a much braver woman than I am! I wouldn’t have been any where close enough to take that pic.
Mae
June 25th, 2006 at 7:47 am
Wow. Some little bitty ones around here but nothing that big sighted yet. The guys here do not shoot them with a camera. bonnie
June 25th, 2006 at 9:02 am
It wasvery fat and over three feet long.
June 25th, 2006 at 10:15 am
Yikes!!!
Hopefully you used a long lens to take this picture from a considerable distance away. And that there were no canines with you at the time — I have the feeling the SugarBear would’ve thought this fellow (or lady) was a toy, or a very large worm.
Not too many Diamondbacks have been active around here in AZ. And we haven’t seen any snakes around either. (The baseball team here that goes by a herpetilogical (sp? I can’t find this word in my Webster’s) nickname is in a 1-20 slump, but thanks to being in a poor division is only 3 games out of first place, even though they’re in last place.)
Kirk (along with the dog who sleeps for everything but cats on a metal roof)
June 25th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Oh my! That is not something I would want to run into.
June 25th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Wow..didn’t think we had these up here. Scary…
June 25th, 2006 at 7:25 pm
Karen,snake “shot?” I am in agreement with Bonnie! Amen! Linda
June 26th, 2006 at 10:00 am
Great photo! Hope you have a telephoto lens.
Ann
June 26th, 2006 at 10:46 am
What big one! YUCK!
June 26th, 2006 at 2:34 pm
I went rattlesnake hunting once … as a reporter with a big lens, so I wouldn’t have to get too close. But I seem to remember that the snake hunter I was with said the little-bitty rattlers are even more dangerous because they pack more venom. I don’t remember if he said the store of it gets depleted or diluted over the years, but he said the little guys pack the biggest wallop. Of course, the foolproof plan is: Don’t let a rattlesnake, big or little, bite you. Great photo.
June 26th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Darn near ripe eatin’ size that one.
June 27th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Man, I hate snakes!
June 27th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
That snake was lucky you were holding a camera and not your infamous shovel! Linn
June 27th, 2006 at 11:43 pm
Oh no! Not the snakes again! Oh this could open a whole other can of worms (so to speak).
Just so you know, Blogger is trying to fight me again - we’ll see if I can beat it this time!
July 2nd, 2006 at 5:29 am
Yikes!
Hey… I have had my blog “Frozen” by Blogger. They say it has characteristics of a Spammers site. So, they FROZE it til a human staffer can review it. That happened Friday morning and they said it would be reviewed within a business day. That didn’t happen.
My hunch is the Google staff is all at a 4th of July Bbq til the 5th, so I’m S.O.L….
… and pissed…
Hope this doesn’t ever happen to you!
July 2nd, 2006 at 10:35 am
A wiser person than I (which should comprise aproximately 99.9999999999999999 percent of the humanoid population of this planet) once said:
“To err is human…to really (four letter expletive that rhymes with luck) things up requires a computer.”
If you have a neighbor who wants to drive you crazy with fireworks this weekend, hope that there is a just and merciful God and that person sets off some of his firecrakers next to a nest of these creatures pictured above. If the firecrackers don’t kill the snakes, it’ll piss ‘em off real good and said noisemaker will have to learn to run really fast.
Kirk (who is trying to calm a skittish dog — who is spooked by a fireworks show run by an Indian casino ten miles away)