ORIGINAL POST HAS BEEN EDITED
(to add information, to correct my atrocious spelling and grammar, the usual stuff)
Updated as needed.
NOTE: I'm now not for sure if these photos are from PD Canyon. The photos were horrifying and I know a sight like that definitely COULD be somewhere here in the Texas Panhandle. ( or in surrounding states)
A video at YouTube has these same photos and claims they were taken in Wyoming. Another video looks to be similar country, but doesn't have the same images.
This is probably yet another case of an email "spoof" or at the very least, a mistake as to where the photos were taken.
So, my apologies to all who have found this post via Google, my apologies to all who regularly read this blog and my apologies to whoever owns these photos.
Things like this shouldn't happen...but will probably happen again.
Happens to the best of us. Happens a bunch to a doofus like me.
Here's the original post.
My neighbor sent me these photos earlier this a.m. She didn't say who took them, and I'm normally loathe to publish something like this, not knowing to whom they belong or who I should credit, but thought they might be of interest to the readers of this blog.
So, if someone reading this owns these photos and objects to me putting them in this pathetic excuse for a blog, just email me and I'll be more than happy to take them down. Really, I'll be happy.
My toes are still curling up and I'll probably have nightmares tonight.
Click the photos for larger view.
I honestly believe that all God's creatures have a purpose and a right to exist on this planet; I also am concerned about the environment but looking at these I can't help but think:
"Five gallons of gasoline and a match...."
End of original post
Here's the last mail I got about rattlesnakes. I honestly think that's real as to the location, as well as the perspective of the shot influencing weight/length.
My last encounter with a rattler Snakes Alive!
Here's a photo a friend sent me a couple of years ago. It's supposed to be in Kansas, and since he is a State of Kansas highway employee, I figured he could vouch for the location.
The funny thing is that this photo also made the rounds, and it eventually got back to me as being in a Texas highway culvert.
I know we Texans are prone to brag, even to stretch the truth some, but we're not supposed to out-and-out lie about things. (well, not all the time, anyway)
Thanks to all for the emails regarding this, and thanks also for being polite. That's why this blog has limits on posting. I don't mind being told I'm wrong, but I draw the line at being called names because I've made a mistake.
(If I enjoyed that sort of thing, I would've stayed married)
One reader from Yukon, OK sent me this link; seems that the mail has made its way out West and now the snakes are in California.
Man, those snakes sure get around, don't they? Faster than a speeding email.
Thanks for the link!
Palo Duro Canyon official website
Some good photos there, loads of information on the canyon.
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