"Poor baby, what happened?"
"I was on Caddo Trail waiting for the left turn light, and some big dumb art teacher stepped right on the middle of my back. She said she was looking at the fall leaves."
"Did she say she was sorry?"
Very. And a wee bit freaked. Her Reptiles of Texas book is at school.
© 2011 Nancy L. Ruder
2 comments:
I think he'll be OK.
Got a good ID on the snake from a biologist/author/library coworker and former herpetology zoo worker. Yup, it's a little copperhead. The little ones have very potent venom, she says. I'm a lucky girl to have photos not snakebite. My expert's website:
http://purplemartinstory.org/id6.html
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