Random Pictures.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by SueCT

Beautiful plants.

Thanks.
There are three different types of agave in the bottom picture too.
Maybe four.

[Cole_Robbie]

Giant Rattlesnake in Jacksonville, FL. Facebook post contains a video as well:

https://www.facebook.com/lindsey.nil...20775761370189

[DonDuck]

This post should be on the 'Cheap Eating" thread. Rattlesnake steak! Yuuummm.

[Salsacharley]

That's a good lookin beast (best viewed from a distance). He/she's had some good luck getting that big.

[Worth1]

I hope it was relocated but I doubt it.
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[Gerardo]

a beautiful specimen. On inland hikes it's fun (and absolutely necessary) to stomp on the ground when you can't see what's coming up, every now and then a western diamondback answers. My boy loves 'em. A friend used to collect urban ones for relocation, their aroma is quite distinctive.

[upcountrygirl]

Sorry, fellas, but that snake is a definite unh-uh for me! That's what I would use an AR on! My papa ate rattlesnake when he was stationed in Oklahoma. The family still has the letter he wrote about it in. I'd have to be starving to try it!

[DonDuck]

Originally Posted by Gerardo

a beautiful specimen. On inland hikes it's fun (and absolutely necessary) to stomp on the ground when you can't see what's coming up, every now and then a western diamondback answers. My boy loves 'em. A friend used to collect urban ones for relocation, their aroma is quite distinctive.

I've never smelled any odor around a rattlesnake. A cotton mouth is a different story. They smell like a skunk. If you drive past a skunk that was hit by a car the day before you drive past, that is how a cotton mouth smells. I can smell them about fifty feet away in nature.

In all honesty, I've never eaten rattle snake. I've never had any desire to eat them. I have had a lot of friends who eat them. They gut them, skin them; and slice them between the ribs. Bread them like fried chicken or catfish and deep fry them. I had a friend who would hunt them in the summer, gut and skin them, roll them up like a cinnamon roll and freeze them for winter eating.

[Gerardo]

My friend would keep them in large fish tanks, at one point he had 15+ of various species, the patterns and colors can be really beautiful. It was only in that setting that I zeroed in on the aroma, it's hard to describe. I dig snakes, and always try to defend them from mobs, but ppl go crazy and assume any snake is a threat to their chihuahua/dachshund.

[Cole_Robbie]

I keep thinking that thing looks like it should be talking Eve into eating the forbidden fruit.

[Worth1]

That story is what made me start liking snakes.
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[Cole_Robbie]

Originally Posted by Worth1

That story is what made me start liking snakes.
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I re-read it just for fun. Gen 1:3 "the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals...."

[jillian]

I've been helping my daughter the past week with garden preparation. There's a creek that runs alongside her driveway. We were coming up the drive, looking for the heron that is more often than not perched on the creek's edge.

She said what in the world is that a huge turtle? I laughed and said no it's just a large rock. Then it moved, we got out of the truck and went for a closer look. She said aww its on it's back must be dying. It took a minute or two for us to determine that there were two, and obviously mating. These things were huge, especially the male. After we got a pic I threw a small stick into the water. Two gigantic heads popped out, they separated and floated on down the creek.

I know these are just ordinary tortoises but I'm fascinated with nature. I remember the polyphemus moths that were in my peppers last year having a menage a trois and the beautiful pileated woodpecker I wasn't able to get a pic of.

[AKmark]

My buddy when I walk the greenhouses in the evenings.

[Spartanburg123]

Originally Posted by jillian

I've been helping my daughter the past week with garden preparation. There's a creek that runs alongside her driveway. We were coming up the drive, looking for the heron that is more often than not perched on the creek's edge.

She said what in the world is that a huge turtle? I laughed and said no it's just a large rock. Then it moved, we got out of the truck and went for a closer look. She said aww its on it's back must be dying. It took a minute or two for us to determine that there were two, and obviously mating. These things were huge, especially the male. After we got a pic I threw a small stick into the water. Two gigantic heads popped out, they separated and floated on down the creek.

I know these are just ordinary tortoises but I'm fascinated with nature. I remember the polyphemus moths that were in my peppers last year having a menage a trois and the beautiful pileated woodpecker I wasn't able to get a pic of.

If the creek's a rockin', don't bother knockin'!! LOL