Nice pics. Appears to me those patterns are pretty close to some of the more nasty ones--but we don't have enough snake to see frequently. Looking at pics on the net, there seems to be a fair amount of individual pattern variation or I just need more practice.
Neighbor has/had a gimpy black snake around his barn that is as tame as wild snakes get, I imagine. He has to be close to 8' or was anyway the last time I saw him go by us. The last really good sized blue racer in the 5-6" foot class around the house was comfortable enough sunning himself on the sidewalk that you could step over him and he would just carry on. Carol lost it one day when he was gliding thru her flower bed while she was weeding and after that the Shepherd harassed him until he left for other places. Prior to that the dog was ok with him--kinda pretended he wasn't there...:) It is a shame because racers eat a lot of mice.
