[Leica] New Noct images - Midnight marauder

[doubs43 at cox.net (Walker Smith)]

Those are good shots, Mitch. Many people don't know that many snakes CAN 
climb. Not far from where you took your pictures on Sugarloaf Mt. (I 
assume you were in Frederick Co., MD) is where I grew up. My father's 
house was built of rough brick and one afternoon, about 15 years ago, I 
was walking around the side of the house when I saw a huge snake going 
up the wall toward a vent into the attic area. I called my father as the 
snake came down on the porch and slithered onto the wood pile. It curled 
into a striking position and while it didn't appear to be poisonous, Pop 
killed it with one shot to the head from a Colt Woodsman .22 pistol. 
Ordinarily, Pop wouldn't have hurt it but he didn't like it's 
threatening attitude coupled with the fact that it had obviously been in 
the house attic area before. It measured out to about 5 1/2 feet long.