Haha.. Exactly what I mean, Nanci. 'Sides, I like the idea of seeing little baby alligator lizards in the Spring and contemplating whether their mother/father is the same one I decided NOT to keep... (Not that I'd ever come across baby lizards. They hide too darn well!)
I wish someone would hurry up and change that law. This hurts! And it doesn't help when my little brother comes back from his Construction class chattering on about ALL the cool-looking garter snakes they come across on the Habitat For Humanity job site... Today was a particularly tame one that he claimed had no stripe and was blue... A google search brought up this "nearly patternless" blue Northwestern which he INSISTS is what he saw:
Hurts, doesn't it?? Lol. Don't worry, he has strict instructions to snap all kinds of pictures of ANY snakes with his school-issue laptop's webcam from here on out...