Chris was trimming the roses in the garden next to the
Riddick House the other day, nipping away dead buds and giving the bushes some
TLC. Much to his surprise, he had some company: a black rat snake was draped in
one of the bushes.
Unphased by Chris’s presence, the snake slowly slid out of
the rose bush and across the mulch floor of the garden. It pushed its way
through a curtain of leaves from the boughs of a Japanese maple, then around
the mossy trunk of a large oak, before slipping across the lawn.
Although it’s always startling to see a snake in the bushes
or slithering across the lawn, black rat snakes are good to have around because
they keep down rodent populations. They're just not very good about lending a hand in the rose bushes.
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