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Sorry for the quality but I was just cleaning a few boxes and had my old camera out there...so... I snapped a couple quick pictures of two of my L.m. mexicana.
I will have more/better ones later.
John these are sibs to yours,same parents, but from the year
before.
This one doesn't do pics well!

This one is my favorite. The hardest snake for me to get a pic of! Will NOT sit still.Actually much brighter in color/shade too.

:Mark

..too often. a normal L.ruthveni. No bells or whistles.
:Mark

And no bells or whistles needed. Get looking Ruthveni.

...great taste in kingsnakes, being focused on mexicana with a keen interest in quality thayeri. I like that. Good seeing other serious mexicana enthusiasts like yourself showing up here to share in the excitement. Your thayeri are outstanding, and the quality of your pics are top dog as well, I enjoy looking at everything you put up here. Thanks for joining in.

That kingsnake.com shirt is fantastic by the way, sure wish I had been on the ball when they offered those. I know that embroidery has to be amazing. Considering your talent with digital photography, if you ever get the time... would you be so kind as to try to get a nice sharp close-up of that complete embroidered logo?!! That thing would make one awesome desktop wallpaper and I would love to have it!

Mike

...no bells or whistles needed with nice normal ruthveni like this one, thanks for showing it Mark. It is really unfortunate that the normal ruthveni captive breeding foundation isn't any stronger than it is. I think most of us mexicana lovers have a sincere interest in them as well, just as we do for alterna.

Here is an '03 female thayeri of mine, keeping her around because of her ruthveni look. The orange in her ground color is fading away which is going buckskin, looking more "ruthveni like" with every shed...

I love that ruthveni look in her too. What a great looking Thayeri.

BTW I was just looking at your photo gallery last night. Holy crap you have some nice thayeri from Chris B and Tim @ Vivid, and your own for that matter. Man I just love that intermediate from Tim. I could'nt take my eyes off that one when he had it posted on his availabile list. You sure snatched that one up in a hurry you bastard, LOL. What a screamer!!!

I'll try and get a pic up of that embroidery on that shirt here soon. Thanks for the compliment too Bud.

...for the compliments on the thayeri as well as being willing to photograph that cool shirt logo. That shirt is just bad to the bone, really looking forward to that pic.

I also have many superb thayeri specimens from Dan Vermilya, attached is one of his '02 males that I now have. Like the animals from Tim Gebhard, Dan's thayeri are in another class by themselvs I feel. Thayeri comprise the majority of my collection numbering 37 thayeri out of 51 total animals, the remainder being greeri, mex mex and alterna. Thayeri drive me out of my right mind. That intermediate you mention from Tim, she never was posted as available. I attempted to buy the one he listed as available that you saw, but some other bastard beat me to her... lol! As Tim told me however, not a bad thing in this case... he offered the female I bought in her place and she is several cuts above, awesome head pattern and orange saturated to the tip of her nose with near perfect pattern. How could I get so lucky...

I have 3 of Dan's animals from his white project, including an '03 female and an '04 male. You can see the '04 male in my old photo gallery under username "makisfree", he is on page 2 here>>>

http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/index.php?cat=500&subcat=0&page=1&action=&user=54827

Here is the '02 Vermilya white male, photo credit goes to Greg Huston, previous owner.....

That one is beautiful Mike....I don't think you've shown that one to me.....If you did I must have forgot...LOL
I like that one alot.
John Lassiter

...he is a stunning young male and it is a total fluke that he ended up here, not sure if I showed him to you or not to be honest. I had origionally purchased a bright peach/orange male along with a really nice reduced black, orange female, both Weymouth '03 animals. The male escaped just after being brought out of brumation and that awesome white male was his replacement. Lucky me, I guess he was just meant to be here. He is proving himself this year and has bred my '02 melanistic female several times now. Not the best match for a melanistic female but who knows?!! He is one of 2 mature males I have for her and I'm gonna use the best of the two if all else fails and it did. The other is an older milksnake phase(which I actually bought just for her and probably better for a chance at producing melanistic babies) and his first introductions to the female produced less than desireable results. She was ready but he wasn't. Silly fool... lol!

Those two look great! I like the neuchal stripe on the first one and the split saddles on the second one..
Are those both males?????
John Lassiter