Oi hite snikes

I found this guy at the top of my front steps yesterday afternoon when I left to run errands.

He's a rough green snake who probably makes his home in the shrubbery around the front of the house and whose habitat I disturbed when I trimmed the shrubs Thursday.

One of these guys turned up in our kitchen one summer night a couple of years ago. Maria scooped him up and released him in the back yard outside the fence.

And even though I hate snakes, I left yesterday’s visitor unmolested. He was gone when I returned a couple of hours later.