Spring's in full swing now. Flowers are blooming and the reptiles are out of hibernation; trees are leafing ... and the visitors are getting more numerous.
East wall of the canyon, covered in new buttercups.
A nest of caterpillars, species unknown to me.
An ironclad beetle.
A juvenile diamond-backed watersnake, probably the same one pictured above from the other day.
Little brown skink.
Cottonmouth, about 2' long, in the Pool.
The Pool Trail, beautifully verdant.
Another view of the Pool Trail.
Nature recycling: a sycamore growing out of the stump of a bald cypress.
A blotched watersnake, quite far away from water -- about 200' uphill from Hamilton Creek.