Oklahoma, were the wind comes whipping down the plane...sizes you up, and then starts to seek out any raw exposed skin with its desiccating intimacy. I did a cursory inventory of the yard and in my humble opinion I don't see any overwhelming challenges, just a need for some attention and care to regions of the yard that have pretty much been allowed to go feral for two years. With the amount of brush in the yard I can only imagine that clearing things up will turn into a macabre game of snake hide-n-go seek. I wonder if I will run into the admittedly handsome albeit very LARGE ratsnake/kingsnake I saw curled amid the irises in spring of '08.
What kind of Easter basket is appropriate for the Lampropeltis genus?