On a mild sunny Saturday morning, UD has gone out to her deck to discover a two-foot long, fully intact (except for a vertical rip near the head) garter snake skin.
Looks kind of like this.
I found the image here.
She’s drying it now (big storm yesterday) on the same outdoor table that holds a massively thriving spider plant UD picked up hours after it had been abandoned at Garrett Park’s last plant swap. She had no idea what it was – just a sad green potted thing – but she thought she’d haul it home and water it and see what happened. Five weeks later it looks like this. (Scroll down to the fourth photo.) Or, you know, not quite that amazing, but getting there. And of course UD is particularly solicitous of this plant because she rescued it, because it was a foundling.