I was going to post a pic of a goldfish....I recently went back to my old Photobucket and found a lot of old pics, but I love snakes too....so here is a snake that I "knew" from when I lived on the bayou. I called her Big Mama. She is a plain bellied water snake....also sometimes called a yellow bellied water snake. Most often confused as a cotton mouth moccasin and usually killed by people who don't know the difference, or by a lot of people who just don't care. This is a cottonmouth. You can easily tell by the facial markings....the bar thru the eyes. This is Ten Dogs. They also have vertical pupils but you don't have to get close enough to see that...you can easily tell by the facial markings. And non poisonous water snakes have vertical lines on their lower jaws. If you can recognize the four poisonous snakes found in the US, you don't have to fear snakes. It really isn't difficult. And, because I found this old photo....this is the goldfish I was going to post. I don't know why I caught it and put it in that bowl....most likely looking for a pair to spawn. This is a comet....they have a long, single tail. Actually, called a Sarassa Comet, which just means a red and white comet.

Bad photo but I have this watercolor sitting on a dresser right now. Not my photo but I’ve always liked this watercolor technique for cookies.

Lars, I took a Desert Hot Springs sculpture pic back in 1997 on one of our two 4 week motorcycle trips touring the western half of the states. We made it a challenge to see how many of Toth's carvings we could find. Even then some of them had somehow disappeared or were moved to places for repair or we had no information to follow up on. This is a pic of the original one in a park near Akron Ohio. Sadly, vandals cut it in half diagonally some years ago. His carvings did become much larger and more detailed as he went on.

Looks like there's a nice crop of Kudzu growing there! ;-0