WARNING!!! It Slithers!!!

[ukcatfan]

Take a look at what we found out in front of our house in a little toy box.

Peek-a-boo!

He/she/it was in a hurry to get away from us!

More: http://s22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/kmhobs/Snake%20in%20front%20of%20house/

 

[DVC Jen]

I think I would be just as in a hurry to get away from it.

 

[Master Mason]

I am ever so glad I live in an area where the snakes do not enter.

 

[duckyislost]

YIKES! I hope those shots used a zoom, I wouldn't get anywhere near that critter!

 

[ukcatfan]

YIKES! I hope those shots used a zoom, I wouldn't get anywhere near that critter!

I usually keep my 50mm on the camera, so I didn't have the chance to change it. It is effective 75mm and I did a little cropping in PP, but I was only about five feet from this guy most of the time. I knew it was a harmless, so I was not worried. Snakes do not bother me. I am on my fourth pet one.

 

[Tuffcookie]

I had an older brother so I was not afraid of snakes. (Now spiders are a whole other story!) When we were younger we always made an annual trek to AL to visit my mom's family. My grandparents lived way out in the boonies. Anyway, one day my older brother came back to my grandparent's house with a rattlesnake wrapped around his wrist and he was clutching it right by the neck.
My mom just about had a heart attack! She told him to not lose his grip on it and she uncoiled it from his arm. Then she told him, on the count of 3, to fling it as far as he could! Luckily, nobody was hurt (except the snake).
Snakes have beautiful patterns on their skins!

TC

 

[Groucho]

Snakes are nothing - it's the 'gators you have to worry about! If you find one of them curled up in your toy box... he can stay!

 

[CastleCreations]

I knew the OP had to live in Florida...your little friend must have told his two lovebird friends to come to my house and make baby snakes on my screen room...

 

[DawnM]

Oh man! In the TOY box????

We get these in our yard too. We have 2.5 acres and about 3/4 of an acre is fairly dense woods. Snakes LOVE it!

In fact, we had one in the basement one day! Thankfully we have successfully sealed off our basement now!

 

[thomas998]

To quote Ross Perot, "If ya see a snake, ya kill it!"

I think I would have been grabbing a garden hoe and wait to take pictures when I knew the snake wasn't going to move out of focus.

 

[ukcatfan]

To quote Ross Perot, "If ya see a snake, ya kill it!"

I think I would have been grabbing a garden hoe and wait to take pictures when I knew the snake wasn't going to move out of focus.

I only mind the poisonous ones, but I still would not kill it. I would not want to get close enough to it.

 

[thomas998]

I only mind the poisonous ones, but I still would not kill it. I would not want to get close enough to it.

I assume any snake that isn't rubber is as deadly as a cobra...

 

[KAT4DISNEY]

I just had a worse one....I walked into our kitchen and there was a snake in the middle of the floor!!!! And the kitchen is on the second floor!!!! Then I get on the computer to relax and this thread has been bumped up.

The last thing on my mind was reaching for my camera. I am not going to sleep tonight.