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[Thumpalumpacus]

I was thinking the same thing!
All that natural beauty can bite you on the arse!

Thanks for the kind words, y'all. I'm no photog, though -- for every keeper, ten or fifteen have hit the recycle bin.

I'm a nature baby and those are fantastic photos!

Um, except for the s-s-s-snake!

When our visitors ask about the snakes (we have at least 8 species, four of which are venomous), I tell them, "Don't worry, I've got a theory: anyone who gets snakebit probably deserved it." Like any other animal, they just want to be left alone.

The cottonmouth up there that looks like a close-up was from about seven feet away. The closest I've been to a venomous snake is when I almost stepped on this juvenile cottonmouth -- he was coiled up and though I'd seen him, I thought he was a racoon turd. I got my camera in close: