Howdy all,
In the last 24 hours we have gotten about 5 inches of rain up here in North Texas, so on my way to work this afternoon I stopped to take some photos with my iPhone of the low-lying flooding near a bridge.
When I was about to leave I saw this scary looking guy:
(click all photos for full size)
Even more scary, he was about five feet away, and he had been there for quite some time (he was in several pictures before I even noticed he was there).
So my question is: What is this guy? Was I visited by a harmless rat snake or was it a close call with a more venomous type?
Three more photos:
(I took this one several minutes before I noticed he was there!)
(This was when I noticed him, or as I call it, the "Oh CRAP what is that?!?" photo.)
Matthew
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