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This beautiful creature greeted me inside my garage at the kitchen door as I was coming back inside from some gardening. There's no telling how long it had been in the garage--maybe 5 minutes, or overnight, or for days or weeks.

I captured the snake in a butterfly net, transfered it to this bin for photographs, then released it unharmed well away from the house (last image). As Coralsnakes go, this was a biggy, maybe 30"+ long.

Remarkably, this is the first record of any venemous snake at Salton Drive in our 22 years here.