A Slithering Visitor
We don't get to see too many snakes in Vermont but tonight we were greeted by a rather small slithering visitor when we arrived back home after a trip to the grocery store. Our visitor was lying completely still in our driveway... perhaps trying to look like a stick, which he did! He coiled up as Sheila prodded him trying to get him to move from our driveway before someone squashed him but was moving rather slowly in our very cool climate. Sheila feared our little garter snake would get run over by Adam when he arrived home from work later in the evening so she picked him up and moved him to one of our bare wildflower gardens. The last time I had seen any snake in Vermont was probably more than 10 years ago in my backyard on the river. That, too, was a garter snake but easily twice the size of our current little visitor. I would say that winters are simply too long and too rough for a large snake population here in Vermont but the rugged Adirondack Mountains to our west,