A Visitor...

...of the slithering kind! This big guy came to check things out today and stuck around for a while in the shade of our patio...just hung out on the ledge of our basement and ground level floor! He's a good snake-- a gopher snake. He will eat rattlers and scorpions so he's nice to have around. I just wish he didn't look so menacing! I mean that face-- gives me the creepies!