Project: One photo a day (but not necessarily every day)

[colker]

On the road

[Diablo de Acero]

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Last night.

[robin3mj]

Smithsonian - Natural History Museum

[Brian E Hammer]

NE face of Mt Hood this am....

[guido]

Unexpected visitor before breakfast...

[Diablo de Acero]

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Quality television time for our cat.

[j44ke]

Unexpected visitor before breakfast...

You might not need any mouse traps for a while.

[brc]

[guido]

You might not need any mouse traps for a while.

Unfortunately the cats were having none of his presence, so I had to escort him out of the building... Sad he seemed like a well natured quiet sort...

[colker]

Mexico

[Brian E Hammer]

Unexpected visitor before breakfast...

Egads! That extra weight you feel upon you is me, having made the leap from grade to your shoulders in one clean, crisp move. Holy crap, how did this fella find it's way inside????

[guido]

Egads! That extra weight you feel upon you is me, having made the leap from grade to your shoulders in one clean, crisp move. Holy crap, how did this fella find it's way inside????

We have an old fieldstone chimney and a sump in the basement that occasionally hosts little 5"-7" ring neck snakes that we mostly have to worry about keeping the cats from killing. He probably came in the same way. The front steps seems to host a wintering colony of garter snakes every winter but they stay outside and cause no concerns. This guy measured about 15" inches, a whole new class of snakes. He'd have been welcome if the cats would have put up with him, more mouse control would have been fine! Neither my SO or I are particularly squeamish, we share the property with a lot of critters and as long as they don't bite they are quite welcome...

[robin3mj]

This is one of my favorite monuments, but it feels very Soviet in some way.
Randomly stuck in a wood, with zero sense of arrival- you come around a corner and, BAM!
Twenty feet of TR, right in your face.

[colker]

Arrazola Mexico

[Saab2000]

My German (currently living in St. Paul, MN) sister-in-law hemming some curtains for me with her 100+ year old manually operated Singer sewing machine. This is a machine that has been in her family for generations and she enjoys using it. She helped me by cutting about a meter off some light blocking curtains and properly hemming both layers. Total pro job. Proud of her and love the handwork. This forum is all about handmade things and this sewing machine and the finished product fall right in line with that.

[Diablo de Acero]

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Wishful Thinking.

[choke]

Ficus retusa

[Ras72]

Unexpected visitor before breakfast...

Mods, anyway for me to give this a thumbs down? kidding...

I would have sh!t myself if this was my house.

[Ras72]

OSHA not approved...
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[j44ke]

Mods, anyway for me to give this a thumbs down? kidding...

I would have sh!t myself if this was my house.

For the record, that is an Eastern Milksnake. One of those misnomers based on finding them in barns around dairy cows. It isn't the milk they are after, it is the pinkie mice. A single snake will clean out an entire mouse nest when it finds it. So a highly beneficial snake. Sometimes confused with an Eastern Corn Snake, but the Corn Snake is more brightly colored and has a slightly different pattern. Corn Snakes are also highly beneficial for similar reasons. And they'll both eat full sized mice once they get larger.

Since mice (not deer) are the primary vector for tick borne diseases (ticks get them from mice,) we need as many of these beneficial snakes as possible.

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