A King Snake and Copperhead locked in mortal combat. Look closely in the lower left and middle right and you see parts of the Copperhead’s body while being constricted by the King Snake. This picture was taken just a few feet away from our front door. The two snakes stayed like this for about 30 minutes before the King Snake loosened its grip, consumed the Copperhead and the slithered away. That took another 30 minutes or so. We like our King Snakes. The King Snake was almost 3 feet long.

BTW, I really like your challenge this week, Annie - thanks for doing this - it's fun 😃

These sketches were done by a dear friend who passed away over 25 years ago. His DW, alsomonemof my best friends, passed away 2 years ago and her son gave me these prints (plus another)which i finally had framed recently. Jack was a highly talented artist and also carved wood. it wsn’t his ’real’ job but he had some beautiful work and I wish i had more.

One is never too old to frolick in the rain. My Mom is 84 here, but currently 86 1/2 LOL. It cracks me up that she has started taking credit for the 1/2 years now.