For no particular reason, I've decided to share a few snake pictures and how I got started with snakes.
My first snake and my all time favourite, a male
Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis. This picture was taken when I first brought him home, on May 30, 2005.
Taken later the same day.
Then, roughly 14 months later, I brought this little monster home:
..and there was much rejoicing. A female of the same subspecies. About as long as the male and twice as heavy. Those two pictures were taken a few days after she arrived.