Little Round Top

[John M. Brooke]

I noticed some of the guns could use some paint.







This fellow was guarding Little Round Top on the day I visited last week.

[emike123]

Nice pictures, but I think the gun could use less paint!

Brings back fond memories.  I went back there a couple years ago and like what they've done with the vistas.  I didn't really appreciate it when as a kid they had let all the trees (that were not there in 1863) grow in around and below.

Here is a picture of Dean on a chilly, windy day up there showing me and Jack Bell around.  Jim was looking at inscriptions in the nearby rocks.

[John M. Brooke]

Speaking of inscriptions in the rocks.

[Selma Hunter]

All -

Gray Rat Snake - Elaphe obsoleta spiloides.  A great little critter.

Pox on anyone who harms one!  Great to see him/her warming up on the rocks.

[Roy A]

I can see how someone would possibly think it was a copperhead, but the head shape/size gives it away before even looking at the pattern.

[John M. Brooke]

Selma Hunter, nice ID on the snake! An adult rat snake can grow to nine feet long and is black in color.
I have one living under my fishing cabin in western Virginia. Needless to say I don't have a problem with mice!
I hope he doesn't get misidentified as a poisonous snake and killed by the park service.

[redbob]

A large Black Snake used to make his home under the Garfield Monument at Antietam and when he came out between my friends feet, he was halfway back to Harper's Ferry before we could catch up to him (the friend, not the snake).

[6lbgun]

     Here's "Stonewall" doing picket duty at the ordnance dump.
Been trying to get him to do the Rebel Yell, but so far no luck.

Dan

He likes to give hugs too.

[relicrunner]

a little surprised that "the Plumber" has not commented on the reptile!