Wow

Today on a bike ride along the Blackstone Riverway, I saw a couple of interesting things.

On the way out, the first was a beautiful egret standing right next to a bunch of cat-tails waiting for something to swim by. At first I barely saw it out of the corner of my eye, but then I stopped to look closely. It saw me too but stayed motionless.

On the way back, across the path I saw what I thought was a dead snake.  When I got closer, I saw it was alive but not really moving.  I thought it would likely get run over by a careless biker so I used a long stick and tried to get it to move in the direction it seemed to be going in.  It did move much faster but it was also not happy with me at all and started spitting and rattling it tail.  It took me awhile since I didn't want to hurt it and I didn't want to stress it too much.  Finally it went all the way across and through the fence but would not go any further.  I figured I did my good deed for the day and hoped it wouldn't come back across.