I’m not really a ball python person, but that boy is spectacular! Love the funky pattern with the bright yellow and dark blacks, super pretty.
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Got some halfway decent pics of my new trio to share. They arrived 05 Feb, so of course they’re in quarantine. They are still pretty skittish, apparently not very accustomed to handling. That will change after they have been here a while. I’ve been considering Palmettos for quite some time. Here they are. Pindo is male, Sabal and Serenoa are female.
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Oh Caryl! They are as lovely as their names! I am positive after they have been with you for awhile they will be like putty in your hands! I am so excited for you and your new project! 
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Thank you, dear Caron! The palm name theme was suggested by @noodlehaus. Two of these are scientific names, me being a nerd. We have a lovely Pindo palm in our yard which I love. (They’re also known as jelly palms for their edible fruit, scientific name Butia capitata.) Sabal palmetto is the plant from which the morph takes its name. Serenoa repens is better known as the saw palmetto. 
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I’m definitely considered getting one of these! They are so beautiful…I also love the blue eyes 
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Lovely new kids, @caryl! I really do love the look of palmettos. If I ever get a corn snake, it would probably be either something really red and pied-sided, or a palmetto. I just love the colourful speckles against the snow white with the blue eyes, like someone threw confetti all over a BEL.
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Thank you both! They are definitely unique.
I remember that in Kathy and Bill Love’s book in “Corn Snakes: The Comprehensive Owner’s Guide,” back when the morph was new, there was a photo of the original wild caught specimen. The caption asked if it should be called the “Confetti corn.” 
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Ahhhh! I was going through some pics and I was wondering if that was a real palm in your yard with all the snow on it. As a matter of fact that picture would make a GREAT Christmas card! .
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Yep, that’s our Pindo palm tree covered in snow. It is hard to believe it really happened. It’s doing fine, too. The lower fronds browned off after the 8°F night which followed the snowfall but that happens normally in the spring anyhow. It was just early. There was a lot of cold damage to vegetation around but the faithful Pindo is fine.
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Yup! I saved the bottom one when you sent it to me! The top one is cool too! That sweet little tree is a hardy one! Ain’t nature wonderful sweet Caryl!
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Nature is amazing and resilient. Side note, the tree with all the leaves on it near the palm is a water oak. They are sorta messy trees, shedding leaves at various points, spending most winters with about half their leaves. They’re all bare after that cold spell. I’m sure they’re fine, but it makes the woods look quite different.
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She’s here! She’s here!!!
Everybody, meet Andromeda. She’s a blue-eyed boaedon capensis, african house snake, 2ish years old, and she finally arrived today after about four months of getting payment sorted and then waiting for temps to get warm enough to ship from Quebec. It’s taking all my self-control to not bother her during her quarantine period. She was a bright, feisty beauty right out of the shipping box and I am in love.
Some of these are breeder pics since I didn’t get many between taking her out of the box, looking her over, and putting her in her quarantine tank.
Look at her trying to be intimidating in that last one. Ma’am, you are too cute to be scary.
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Congratulations on a beautiful addition! I’m sure you’ve got plans for her. Looking forward to learning more about that, too.
Yup!! 
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Not the best photo but I picked this little darling up at the expo I was vending today. I’ll grab some better ones after she has settled in and shed.
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Congratulations! She’s really cute. I know you’ve worked with garters in the past. Have you had checkered ones?
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I have. I used to have a pair, Thing 1 & Thing 2, but Thing 1 passed suddenly a while ago.
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Ah, I couldn’t remember what type of garters that pair was.
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I did have a pair of commons, as well, but my luck with Natricines is…not great. 
Hoping I finally have a 1.1 pair of Checkereds, though it’s not the end of the world if I don’t. Just means I’ll have to get more!
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Such a cutie!
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I had no clue that this beautiful baby girl is a garter! So lovely! I have never owned any garter snakes but I think it would be so cool to have snakes that enjoyed being together but I am not sure about how I would do with their diet……but she is really pretty!
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