This is the most beautiful day we've had since 2010 started. I felt like if I could get my balance, I had to get outside!
Mom went with me. We were happily digging away. Her secret name is Assiduous Weeder and I make regular healthful weed rescues from her weed bag.
She had the shovel and I had a bucket and one of my canes. We were giggling and digging, I had a nice conversation with a squirrel (squirrels speak English - who knew? XD ). I'd collected gorgeous viola odoratas - sweet violets - and one lone dandelion bloom. Mom had dug up a nice bunch of wild garlic.
She saw a piece of plastic and tried to move it with the shovel so she could pick it up when suddenly she said, "There's a snake! It's a green snake!"
It looks more blue in this pic than it did through my eyes and hers. What a beaut, eh?
We've got all sorts of fauna around here: a raccoon family lives in my neighbor's backyard, salamanders and box turtles appear every now and then, lizards abound. There are more birds in this area than I could possibly count. I heard my lovely wood thrush day before yesterday in the early hours of light.
But nobody has seen a snake in so long, neither Mom nor I could remember.
She said, "Should I kill it?" I hollered, "Don't you DARE!"
So, several pics later, he (or she) pulled his/her head back out of sight, and we moved on to nice big dandelions and musk thistles.
Somebody here on this earth or in the life to come loves us. :)
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