I had to work on this picture to make the critter show up. Our daughter, Catherine, came home from her office in the wee small hours of the morning (she's a CPA, a tax deadline is looming) and found this critter on our back steps so snapped a picture with her phone camera and texted it to me. I've never seen one there before, but we have a good idea where it came from.
The next door neighbor has completely removed everything green from his property - grass, trees bushes - so the critters of all kinds have no where to go but to surrounding properties.
I guess we have inherited the neighbor's critter. It's a garter snake so not poisonous. These snakes eat slugs, little rodents, and other things that I'm glad that they eat. They are our friends, I just don't like to be surprised by them.
The snake has disappeared for the moment....
Lois
Ouch! A snake is a snake!
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