Snakeskin Vinyl

18 responses to “Snakeskin Vinyl”

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   !MimosaMicheMichelle!

   Sep 8, 2006 at 10:40 pm

   This snake might have enjoyed the smooth surface of the pool cover.

   A few days ago, I saw an excellent show on PBS on snakes. They even showed snakes shedding their old skins. It was from a four part series. I saw the show on alligators and on turtles, not yet on lizards.

   This is an interesting visitor. If you had lived in certain areas of Florida, you would have found an alligator in your pool while going for a late night or early morning dip. They feed at dawn and dusk and they often wander on people’s properties. So a snake is better, especially if harmless to you.

   Nice photo. I think that you are simply attracted to these creatures because others might not pay as much attention or take photos of these encounters. We notice what we wish to notice.

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   zenera

   Sep 9, 2006 at 12:26 am

   …more messages, your animal inbox is overflowing, better get interpreting…:)

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   drona

   Sep 9, 2006 at 3:42 am

   That’s Wild! Love the beautiful contrast…now did you make him go on that pool cover!? Here’s mine, he was having a snack in the pool cover box . Check out Jennifer’s snake…he was actually sitting on her couch. This is a gopher snake I believe. I’ll post another one that I found a few weeks ago.

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   jurvetson

   Sep 9, 2006 at 4:24 am

   Rodents just keep getting the shaft! With the hawk, bobcat and now this, I can see more clearly now how they are the bumper crop for the local ecosystem. But, a gopher-eater is a friend of mine! (p.s. Jennifer link fix)

   I didn’t make the snake go on the cover; I just found him there when I was opening it. He was mightly surprised when his world started sliding laterally, and I was surprised to see "snakes on a pool". 😉

   Zen – oui. Just like my email inbox. Got a rabbit photo tonight. Still waiting for the wily coyote… Hopefully, I won’t get any spam… 😉

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   !MimosaMicheMichelle!

   Sep 9, 2006 at 4:27 am

   I wrote to Drona a few minutes ago about the bad link.

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   drona

   Sep 9, 2006 at 5:12 am

   Fixed that link problem. Sorry about that.

   Your guy has that nice stripe on his nose. Hmmm…let me go check the other shot that I took.

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   oklo

   Sep 9, 2006 at 5:13 am

   That’s a remarkable photo. Exquisite balance in the asymmetry.

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   Deadhead Daisy

   Sep 9, 2006 at 8:03 am

   That is a beautiful shot!! What kind of snake is he?

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   jurvetson

   Sep 10, 2006 at 6:09 am

   Eppie: will do! Saw hundreds of Canadian geese today, and some other fine critters.

   Daisy: We’re thinking gopher snake. Rattles its tail like a rattler. Drona is looking into it. Hey… a real deadhead?

   oklo: merci… you are an aficionado of asymmetric balance! (Do you see recurring patterns in nature that echo exoplanet orbits?)

   thanks Mimosa!

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    oklo

    Sep 10, 2006 at 7:50 pm

    Definitely.

    The undulations of the snake remind me of the librations executed by bodies trapped in one-to-one mean-motion resonance. In these situations, two planets (or in the case of Saturn’s Janus and Epimetheus, two moons) dance uneasily about a common orbital period:

    

    It’s interesting to listen to what the resulting reflex velocity of the star "sounds" like when the radial velocity waveform is converted into an audio file (more details here).

    It’s also fascinating to watch animations of planets in the different varieties of one-to-one resonance. For example, see this 1MB animation by my student Greg Novak, which shows 400 years of evolution of two Jupiter-mass planets trying to share orbits with the same average period.

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    benjiman

    Sep 11, 2006 at 12:08 am

    Ah, how I love the serpents! Legs are a totally overrated form of locomotion. I had a beloved cornsnake when I was a kid, Madame Dubonnet. Don’t ask me why I named her after an aperitif.

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    kainet

    Sep 14, 2006 at 2:16 pm

    wow great capture!

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    Fibra

    Feb 2, 2007 at 2:33 pm

    You have so meny great photos man!

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    Eddi van W.

    Jan 13, 2009 at 11:57 am

    Hi, I’m an admin for a group called Creative Commons- Free Pictures, and we’d love to have this added to the group!

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    enormous knife

    Jun 16, 2009 at 6:11 am

    we have one that same size; a juvenile living underneath the shed. sometimes i’ll see him inside the shed looking for mice!

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    benjiman

    Jun 16, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    Make sure he reads Flatland!

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    pareeerica

    Mar 14, 2010 at 1:46 pm

    Thank you for choosing creative commons, I have used here 🙂

    

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18. 

    Home of Solar Energy

    Jul 10, 2010 at 10:21 am

    Hey Steve,

    again a very nice photo…

    I took the liberty to use it here:
    Solar Pool Rings – Alternative Solar Pool Cover and Homemade Solar Pool Heater?

    Thanks

    Daniel

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