This is the view from our front yard on Irene Street over Thomas Blvd. Park and on to the Draw, as in Running Water Draw, where we played as kids.

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We built forts, hung out down in the Draw where the erosion had made beautiful layered walls. We boxed Horned Toads and picked up Devil's Claws ... carefully. We sat on the cool dirt and talked. I don't ever remember a snake sighting. God was protecting us! We had snakes come up out of the Draw into our yards sometimes.
Now, we are at a different place near the Draw and there are snake sightings. This one lives next door. The skin was left right outside of the hole. Not sure the kind of snake that lives here. I loved the colors around the home entrance. A front porch says so much about who is inside! LOL
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