Garden Critter

I went out to check on my garden before dinner tonight. I picked my first cuke and a handful of sugar snaps. I oohed and aahed over the tomato blossoms. I snipped off the pole bean vine that had already topped the six-foot bean tower. My daughter came out to join me. She bent down to look at the cukes and found Jethro here, our new garden feature, curled up under the cucumber vine. Yes, it's a copperhead. Yes, it's right next to a cuke that's big enough to pick. No, I didn't look for snakes before I reached down to pick that cuke. Yes, I'll look the next time. Yikes. I really hope he's big enough to eat chipmunks.