This was little friend that came to visit yesterday. I was in the backyard cleaning up and moved the compost bin and there he was. It has been a long time since I have encountered a snake that wasn't behind glass and it startled me. I would describe my reaction as my city personality, I screamed a little and jumped up onto the raised flower bed. It took me about 5 minutes to summons my butch Oklahoma self to get down there and wrangle it and pick it up. Once I had it in my hands, it was a exciting and reminiscent feeling of my childhood. The texture and movement was interesting.

I let him go into the flowerbed about 5 minutes after handling him. I decided to name him Jim. Goodbye, nice visiting with you Jim.