Sunday, May 17, 2009

I Have Never Seen This on my Deck Before

And I hope I never see it again!
My deck is over 4 feet off the ground. It never occured to me that these guys would slither right on up the steps or lattice walls. Now whenever I go out there to lounge around, I will have one eye opened to watch for snakes.

We had planned to stain the deck Saturday, but it was cold and rainy again. This is the third weekend in a row that we have had to postpone the staining.

I started this runner on Friday and finished it early Saturday morning. I decided to entertain myself with a photo op among the tulips in the rockwall garden.

Here is the Bumex tulip today. It's turning red.

Doesn't it look like a big claw?

I think it should open fully tomorrow.

5 comments:

  1. Wow! That's quite the scary creature! And that runner is lovely amongst the flowers- and I'm SO excited to see that monster in full bloom! Happy Sunday!

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  2. Oh Zoey..I would not care to find that on my deck either. Never thought about it..gives me the shivers. My son on the other hand would be overjoyed to find a snake on his deck, he loves those slithery things!
    That is one interesting flower opening up..

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  3. Looks like a garter snake...gee, did you take any pots on or off the deck? I think we had a snake living in a flowerpot that got taken down the basement. He got woken up by a warm spell and came out on Thanksgiving. The cat got him!
    Those are really unique tulips!

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  4. eekkk I don't like snakes...love your flowers and photo op....I had a hard time deciding if I should cut my Gerber Daisys and bring them inside to enjoy or keep them outside...I brought them in and I'm glad I did...I only have one plant...so it doesn't produce alot of blooms..I have pressed a few in a book to keep...

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  5. Garter snake. He's pretty harmless. That's a tiny one, too.

    Welcome him, he eats pests.

    And I bet he skedaddled real quick when you took his pic.

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