Where the wild things aren't

We were in Vermont this weekend. In the year and a half that we've had the vacation house, we've seen very few animals (unless you count insects, which we've seen plenty of). You'd think, being out in the middle of nowhere, that we'd see more animals than we get at our own house in the suburbs. But no. We've seen some birds, maybe a squirrel or two, and that's about it. We have seen a hoof print of a moose, and a paw print that looked to me like it belonged to a mountain lion. Well, today we saw different animal, one I've never seen at home (but I know they're there) - a garter snake! I didn't know it was a garter at first, I had to look it up on-line. Here's a picture of our snake:



It was hiding under the porch steps when I took the picture. But when we found it it was sunning itself on the driveway (it was awfully cold this morning!).

So that was our excitement for the day. One of these days, though, hopefully we'll see some more....interesting animals.