Suddenly I saw it in the poison ivy, which is still pale green and a bit sparse. It was hanging festooned in there, so well camouflaged it took my country-sharpened eye to see it. I got my camera. So eager was I to get theses photo for us that I poison-ivied my right forearm, the first poison ivy of the year. Worth it. And to watch it slink away suspended in poison ivy branches--priceless. In the vertical picture the snake twines up from the bottom of the photo, around a branch.
