Second Shift

A gopher snake is partially visible at the base of a bush on the Latigo Trail in McDowell Sonoran Preserve in Scottsdale, Arizona on August 5, 2021. Original: _RAC6220.ARW

With the sun sinking low late on a summer day I met one of the most beautiful desert residents, a gophersnake. Taken two years ago, still my only sighting of a living one. Given the hot weather I suspect as my day in the desert was ending it was just beginning for the snake, starting the hunt as the temperatures slowly fell.

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