This was inevitable. It has been a wet year and ponds are swollen everywhere. If the turtles, toads and poison ivy are going "Grande" this year you knew one of these would eventually show up. FM claims to have seen a Copperhead (a poisonous viper) on her last mowing excursion around the pond so I have been a little more alert when I go strolling around now. Sure enough, snake sighting, in the front yard no less!
That is NOT a Copperhead it is a Northern Water Snake about three and a half feet long zig-zagging across the front yard. And this particular picture was swiped off the internet because I was chanting "holy shit, holy shit" as I walked backwards at full speed and onto the front porch steps. They are not poisonous and this creature was more scared of me then I was of it.
But...holy shit!
But...holy shit!