I took a family vacation to Flagstaff, AZ over the 4th of July week, and we went to visit this national park. They actually had a lot of rain (for the area) and so flowers were blooming everywhere.
We saw a fence lizard on a post and tried to catch it so we could see its blue belly. In the course of trying to catch it, it jumped onto my roommate's arm to give us a Class-A stinkeye.
Then, at a rest stop, I heard my dad yelling for me. We came running, and he showed us that he'd found a juvenile gopher snake in the bathroom. The first picture is the little guy in situ, wedged under a door. It wasn't a safe place for a little snake to be, so we caught him, relocated him, and released him. He was awesome! He never hissed or musked or flailed, and I'd heard they had a bad reputation for being grouchy. I love his little colubrid face and his eye stripes.
...I want a gopher snake now.