Wildlife Gardening: Desert yard (in progress), 1 by oldmudhouse

oldmudhouse wrote:
Same backyard area, further west. Big unnamed yuccas on the left, a pecan tree on the right, and more prickly pear. There is a dark silhouette under a bush on the right side; that’s a fire hydrant. It’s real, but not hooked up to anything; kind of a tongue-in-cheek garden ornament for our desert yard.

This was where my husband stepped in the middle of a four-foot gopher snake a few weeks ago. Fortunately the snake didn’t take it personally, and he left without any bad behavior. Sure did perk Rick up.