Monday, April 22, 2013

Springy

It's always a scramble in the Spring - things grow faster than you can get gardens and flower beds cleaned up and ready.  This year I was away for a lot of the time that the prep work would have been done, so now I'm racing.  Trim, weed, rake, mulch and oh-dang-I'm-not-going-to-get-that-moved-this-year-again.  Yesterday involved some mulch moving, and as I tossed a shovelful into the wheelbarrow, I saw what I thought was a big earthworm.  I hate it when I accidentally whack earthworms apart, so I separated it out to move it to safety.  Except it wasn't an worm - it was an eastern wormsnake.

My neighbor tried to get a pic for me, but the little guy wouldn't hold still and pose:



Very pretty little thing, others out on the web have snapped better pictures than I got:


A rich caramel brown on top, peach pink underneath, and scales that were iridescent in the sun.  I moved him to the woodpile, where he can choose between there, a mulched flower bed, or rocks in which to hunt his buggy meals and where there's less chance of him getting stepped on or having an unfortunate run in with my shovel.

I do love Spring.



10 comments:

  1. I love Spring, too. Now if we only had some ...

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    1. My daughter is saying the same thing. I'm getting texts about snow flurries.

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  2. I run across those little guys around our house occasionally. What I hate is running across them with the weed whacker. Can't see the little guys until too late sometimes.

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    1. So far I haven't hit a snake, but there was a real unfortunate incident with a toad...

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  3. And you get to actually SEE progress! :-)

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    1. Yes. Though next year I swear I'm going to tie a ruler to a couple of my plants and photograph each hour. I think they grow 6 inches in a day.

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  4. What a beautiful setting. A week ago it was still spitting snow, today, no coat was needed. Spring is finally here.

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    1. Our temps are up and down right now - I'm back to winter jammies for a few days. But it's still so pretty.

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  5. I am happy to see Spring finally

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    1. Now if it will slow up and let us enjoy it for a bit...

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