What I like about this photo is that you can see (when you zoom in) how the scales change along the girth of the snake's body. The ones along the top are long and narrow, while the hexagonal ones on the side are more circular, and the scales along the snake's bottom look like shields.
Also, the yellow stripe along the snake's body has scales in it that are half-yellow, half-slate colored.
After I photographed this snake, I scooped it up and slid it into a crack in the ground (we have a lot of those because of the high clay content of the soil). Cicero can't get at the snakes, but he can smell them, and I suspect he spends much of his day standing guard over the cracks, waiting for serpents to emerge.
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