The snake

Okay, so the neighbors said they finally cleared the brush from their backyard, which is where we think this snake was living. That is, when he wasn't in our yard! A few weekends ago we were doing yard work and saw him in our palm tree. Here's just a couple of pics...

You can see his black body wrapped around the palm tree...

And here is his head... he really wasn't that big, just more of a nuisance really.

Hopefully he's gone for good and found another home someplace else. Both Doyle and myself have tried to kill him at least once each when we were working alone in the yard. He has always just been too fast. I'm sure you'll hear if we see him again.