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WOW nice pictures!!! Maybe you should stick to corn snakes

J

....I really can't believe what I see but like the others said, I just need to bite my tongue...er, maybe I should have a tonguectomy so that it can't hurt anyone. Can I start a new venomous forum?

>>WOW nice pictures!!! Maybe you should stick to corn snakes
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Rob Carmichael, Curator
The Wildlife Discovery Center at Elawa Farm
Lake Forest, IL

I am ready to bite my tongue that is. So many things I would love to say about those pictures but I will just stick to saying they were very clear and pretty. It is nice to see there are people out there who put 100% trust in the workings of their fellow man. Ok, loosing grip on the tongue. I better stop.

Oh my goodness…and so came to mind a passage from "The Man Who Laughs" by Victor Hugo:

Thus hatred had made a mistake. The persecutors of Gwynplaine, whoever they might have been--the deadly enigma, from wherever it came--had missed their aim. They had intended to drive him to desperation; they had succeeded in driving him into enchantment. They had affianced him beforehand to a healing wound. They had predestined him for consolation by an affliction. The pincers of the executioner had softly changed into the delicately molded hand of a girl. Gwynplaine was horrible; artificially horrible--made horrible by the hand of man…

LOVE IT! It is too bad that applies to our general approach to the world at large as well...
Cheers
B

Yes, what a pity...however, fortunately, amid the rocks there ARE jewels if we clear the rubble away...if you get my drift.
Speaking of jewels, we had a really large textilis (with glands intact!) on our property last Sunday. My 14 year old daughter calmly spotted it as we were checking our boundary fenceline. The funny thing about it was that I had just had a mental flash that a brown snake was near, but as I couldn't see anything, I just dismissed it as wishful thinking. Then Antares (my daughter) said "hey there's a big brown snake over there", and judging by its speed and direction of travel through the scrub, I must have almost stepped on it but didn't even see it!...Well at least my subconcious analytical reasoning skills are still functioning...I think I'll go to the optometrist tomorrow and get some eye transplants...

best regards

Richard Wells

It just takes awhile to find those jewels with soo much rubble in the way but its worth it. Love to see a brown in my yard with glands intact!

Cheers
Brett