Found this little guy hiding under a cinder block while doing some work in the back yard today!

#snake #snek

Found cute snek!

According to California Herps site, it seems like it is probably a California red sided garter snake, Thamnophis sirtalis infernalis
https://californiaherps.com/snakes/pages/t.s.infernalis.html

See my post last week about the poisonous rough skinned newts in the pond being eaten by the otter. Turns out that these garter snakes can also safely eat the newts, which in turn makes them at least temporarily poisonous to predators because the garter snakes retain some of the newt's toxin in their bodies.

And I also just learned from the description that these snakes are also mildly venomous, but mostly not enough to hurt humans. This one was a little annoyed at being picked up, but generally fairly chill and not bitey.

#snek #Snake #Herps #CaliforniaHerps

Another #run, another #snek. This one was a small youngster, I think it hissed "sssix-sssseven" at me as I ran past. 😅
🐍 🏃

For years, nothing, and now I find two snakes on two consecutive runs? 🤨

#running #trailrunning #snake #snakes #snakesofmastodon

Snek.

The blue is cobalt oxide painted directly in the greenware. The light blue is white slip and mason stain. The indeterminate color is some light green underglaze covered with clear. This is a study for a larger piece where I put white slip under the underglaze so that the intense cobalt doesn't wash it out like it did here.

#Pottery #Ceramics #Snek