Yesterday afternoon it was 105 degrees with heat index and I was hand watering 150 perennials in that heat.
I stepped on the freshly cut green grass as I moved down the daylily bed and with water wand in hand
putting deep watering down at each daylily hill base...there looking at me with tail swinging and raised up
eye to eye was a black racer snake, angry with the heat and angry at me.
We looked at each other for a few seconds and I lightly sprayed the snake with cold water to cool it off and thinking
that it would be less tempermental...WELL the snake lunged at me and chased me across the yard running
both of us..and it raised up at high speed!
this morning I was photographing the day lilys
and guess who stuck its eye ball out of its hole
about 4 foot from me?
My black racer snake..
Beautiful glossy skin and eyes..
Then a frog comes by its hole and I just stepped over
and put my foot over the snakes head and hole
and let the frog pass by safely..
Stupid frog
went right by the snake and it would have eaten it!
Later the snake rises up to see where I was and I had left the yard and was photographing it from 50 foot away
with the camera..
Here are the pictures..
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