I Think I’ll Grab this Vine… WTF?!!

So I spent Sunday at my parents house in Alpine celebrating father’s day.  My family’s estate is beautifully adorned with koi ponds, gardens, flowers, wisteria and quite a variety of other plant life.   While my own home is still in its renovation phase, I like gathering the seeds that are popping up at my parents house.  My mom’s wisteria has sprouted hundreds of pea pods and half are just about ready to pop open with wisteria seeds.  I absolutely LOVE wisteria so I decide that I’m going to pull off of couple of pods and bring them home for my own garden.  I pull off one pod, then I reach for the second.  Suddenly just as I’m reaching for the second pod, I see something that doesn’t belong in a wisteria vine..

The vine that I’m just about to grab is actually a four foot long California King Snake.  He’s halfwalf curled up in a bird’s nest that was also entangled in the wisteria vines.  Now I’m not particularly scared of snakes, it’s just that a snake was the last thing I was thinking about grabbing.  So I quickly grabbed my phone and took some pictures and two quick videos.

It was actually really cool since it had been a long time since I had last seen a wild snake.  Check out the videos below…

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So my slithery little friend slinked away down the vine and into the bush at the base of an old oak tree.