In Florida I live in a community called “The Great Outdoors” – In Michigan I live in an Island off the Upper Penisaula – It is the great outdoors and except while doing these web sites I live outdoors there.

Snakes always fascinate me – I seem to encounter them more often the most people -maybe ’cause I am always looking for them.

This is Butlers Garter snake – I laid in the grass with my camera – He/she came right up and looked in the lens – You can see what he thought of his own reflected image in the lens!!!

Despite being legless, snakes inhabit most environments on earth. Deserts, oceans, forests, grasslands, lakes, rivers, marshes, mountains, farms, and cities – all are homes to some of the 2400 known species of snakes. Only 18 species are found in Michigan. I think the UP only has 4 species

The other one I found while riding my bike at 10:00pm – Yes, it is still light at 10:00 up here:

Looks a little like a Florida Pygmy Rattler – but no snake with poison up here – He/she is n Eastern Water Snake.