When the hot dry wind hits here is fries vegetation and
heaps the detritus here and there around my garden. The leaves, flower petals
and bougainvillea bracts haven’t had a chance to turn brown. It’s like someone
has tipped out a few sack loads of potpourri. While clearing these up recently,
ever wary of the odd concealed scorpion (though they’re not often about when
it’s hot and dry) I found numerous crisp-dried sections of shed snakeskin.
Judging by the size of these pieces the snake was three of four feet long. I
wish I’d saved them for a photograph but they went in my composter with the
potpourri. Only a few weeks after that wind did I pick up one small piece...
...and think ‘USB microscope’!
I don’t know whether this will be interesting – let’s find
out.
Snakeskin x20
Snakeskin x80
Snakskin x350
Okay, I did find these interesting, but then I have a
confession to make: I’m a nerd. Also, coincidentally, when going back to
editing these are the first words I read: He gazed at the snake drone locked in its
clamps, and at the spine driven in through its mouth and deep into its body.
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Got my line after all!
Ah Ah there it is.
Time to hit the pre-order button
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Out 29th Jan 2015
I think it was manufactured locally... finest quality... superior workmanship. There is a maker's serial number... 9-9-0-6-9-4-7-X-B-7-1. Interesting. *Not* fish. *Snake* scale!
Very good FS-Valisk. And probably recognised by just about every reader of this blog.
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