Saved!!

What a lucky snake! Lucky for one thing that the driver at the wheel loves snakes. For another that the driver was alert to the possibility of snakes sunning themselves on the road and alert enough to swerve just in time to avoid it.

Can you see the tracks of the car which show how narrowly this fellow was missed?!?

And here's a close up of the lucky gopher snake (Pituophis catenifer), most likely unaware that it just stared death in the face. All it cares about now is that it has to stare at my camera...