Snakes!

The weather has been delightful - had the windows open even during the day! Bright, clear days with low humidity. So not like here!

While doing barn chores I realized that the large Black Rat Snake was hiding within the clustered tools in the storage space in the barn. By the time he got into the barn, the other snake had showed itself!

These snakes tend to be rather shy. They don't want to be 'discovered' and try to blend in. The smaller one was seen lately around the house, but seems to have moved to the barn.

Both snakes were trying to get into warmer accommodations, the smaller snake had an easier time scaling the wall, the larger snake was doing chin-ups around the electrical conduit in the rafters.

The bigger snake had shed its skin recently, completely intact and inside-out, from the rafters hanging into stall #5 that is used as my hay staging area. Measured to be nearly six feet long.