I believe this tiny baby snake to be an Eastern Ribbon Snake. He doesn’t have the black lines/marks on the side of his lips like a garter snake, but he does have the spotted pattern of a garter…any ideas out there folks? For what it’s worth, I have seen mostly Eastern Garter Snake adults around here, but I have seen a few E Ribbon adults…this is the first (of either kind of) baby for us though.
what a sweet tiny face
Glistening in the sunlight
Lovely spots & stripes
In the last picture it is in the bottom of a 1/2 pint mason jar to give you an idea of just how small this little guy is. I have yarn that is thicker than he is! Very sweet, tiny and fragile baby snake. We spent some time together this early morning and then again in the late afternoon — I found him in the same spot almost both times. Elijah and I thought about keeping him, but we don’t have anything to keep him in — though, feeding him my slugs from the garden would have been nice 
We took a little nature walk around our yard and street today. We met several flowers, bugs and even made friends with a little mouse. Enjoy!
allium
making a wish
little bug
pickly pods
sunny flower
buzzing in a lamb's ear
baby berries
a rose is a rose is a rose...
little grey one hiding
little grey one in a nest
little grey one nibbling on grass
I assure everyone that our little friend wasn’t harmed and was carefully placed in a good hiding place once we were done visiting. I will say though, our mouse friend was practically impossible to snap a picture of…he was rather quick and seemed to only stay still and be petted when the camera wasn’t pointed at him
All these pictures were taken with my new Nikon D60 that my parents gave me while they were visiting with us this last week/weekend. We had a great time outside today.
Here’s a little taste of our crazy snow yesterday. I took these pictures from the balcony off the kitchen, which overlooks our backyard. Unfortunately, it was just too cold for us to really enjoy it.
Those are only my feet, Elijah didn’t want to come out and leave his mark too. Here is our snow in action.
For those of you who were following what we were receiving in our CSA share each week, I am truly sorry that I couldn’t be more consistent with pictures and menus. I have here photos for the share weeks numbering 20, 21 & 22. I missed picking up week 19th’s crate and my camera was missing in action for weeks 23 & 24. I hope to do much better with this next season. We did get some turnips and homemade sourkraut in the last two weeks that were fantastic!
