Partly cloudy and cool. A large garter snake emerges from the stone wall and curls up on a sunny corner of the porch.
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Overcast. A field sparrow’s ascending note. In the dead grass below the stone wall, an otherwise motionless garter snake tastes the air.
A warm morning. Over by the well, garter snakes thread themselves into a throbbing knot. Some animal starts bumping under the house.