This is my bit of a blog. Rambling words about rambling days. No focus and nothing ambitious. I seem to write most about local color, nature, and animals, and there is an incomplete chunk about my road trips of 2011.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Fig Trees and Garter Snakes

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Planted four cuttings today, which with luck will grow into the grandchildren of fig trees in a Greek mountain village.

Also saw garter snakes, what appeared to be two adults and two or three babies.

Female garter snakes produce a sex-specific pheromone that attracts male snakes in droves, sometimes leading to intense male-male competition and the formation of mating balls of up to 100 males per female.

See "Garter snake" at Wikipedia.

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