Caution is good in the palmetto (I'm now living in the town called
Palmetto). But I should also ad that, in 10 years of living in Florida
and 6 years of working as a weekend volunteer at the Loxahatchee
National Wildlife Refuge, I have never seen a rattlesnake in the wild.
Plenty of moccasins in the cypress swamp but never a rattler elsewhere.
Maybe because I don't own any snake boots I tend to keep out of the
palmetto... at least the thick stuff with little visibility. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Jim Nichols wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> You were probably wise. There are some things about Florida that the
> Chamber of Commerce never mentions. When we lived in Maitland for several
> months in 1966, we were notified by the local school, which two of our boys
> attended, that there would be a snake roundup on the school grounds on
> Saturday.....
>
> One morning they arrived at school to find a rattler blocking the front
> entrance.
>
> Never go into the palmetto without snakeproof boots!
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 6:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Occasional Flowers on Friday
>
>
>> I meant to take some photos of tassel flowers yesterday. They are one
>> of my favorite Florida wildflowers and have little red blossoms also
>> about 8mm diameter. However, to get to where the flowers were I would
>> have had to wade through an area of patchy high grasses and weeds. It
>> struck me as a perfect place for an Eastern Diamondback rattlesnake to
>> lie in wait for prey.
>>
>> I was about to do it anyhow when I suddenly noticed what was probably
>> the burrow of a Gopher tortoise about 4 feet from the flowers. Eastern
>> Diamondbacks are lazy when it comes to burrows and are quite content to
>> let the Gopher tortoises do the work and then move in with them as
>> uninvited guests. I decided I really didn't need those particular
>> tassel flower shots.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> Jim Nichols wrote:
>>> Thanks, Chuck. I measured the blooms, out of curiosity. They were about
>>> 8mm square.
>>>
>>> Jim Nichols
>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 6:07 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Occasional Flowers on Friday
>>>
>>>
>>>> Mighty purty and a shame they're going to disappear under the lawnmower.
>>>> I was searching for some sense of scale when I finally noticed the
>>>> clover comment. Thanks for that.
>>>>
>>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jim Nichols wrote:
>>>>> This week's flowers are very tiny, but caught my eye.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oly E-1 with Leica Elmarit-R 60/2.8 Macro
>>>>>
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Small+Faces.jpg.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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