I set up a couple of large bins in the spring and filled them with leaves to make leaf mold compost. They've been breaking down all summer and are some beautiful compost now, but I found this guy making a home in one of them yesterday. Just a harmless green snake, but when you reach into a pile of leaves and feel slithering scales, your heart stops for just a second... He moved on up into the tree pretty quickly, and I harvested the compost much more carefully from then on.
#garden #snake #wildlife #farm
