Coming down to the watering hole.
With the AAUW Garden Tour coming up in three days (yikes!) and so much still to do, and of course working in the 80+ degree heat this week, I haven’t been doing much else. However the heat did bring out our annual visitor to the upper pond.
More than a drink... he's going in!
He (or she) visits a couple of times a year, and seems to enjoy the new shape of the pond with its long shallow end.
Swimming the channel.
I wish he’d go after the bullfrog!
Beautiful bands. Siblings can be striped or banded.
Kingsnakes are mild snakes that will eat other snakes, including rattlers. I’m glad to see him!