Today the high temperature was 91. Tomorrow’s forecasted high: only 35! With snow. One of the earliest snows in decades.
In addition, there are so many fires in our state, including one only 100 miles away, which has left us with unhealthy air quality and some ash falling from the sky yesterday and today. There’s a haze, the sky is orangish, and the moon was dark orange last night. I guess that’s one good thing about the snow that is coming – it will hopefully help our firefighters get the fires under control.
Most likely in anticipation of the upcoming snow, we had a visitor to our yard this evening.
I was walking around the yard when this snake seemed to appear suddenly out of nowhere. It did coil and strike at me when it thought I was too close. I think it is a bull snake, but its head was slightly angular so we kept our distance in case it was a young rattlesnake. It slithered up to our house and hid between the window well and the house. We can just see one of its coils. It has a wound near its tail; between that and the winter storm, I hope it survives the next couple of days.
