Where you find blackberries you’ll find snakes …
REGIONAL-This well-written eastern Kentucky blog offers plenty of thoughts about off-the-grid Appalachian living and parenting.
And in the case of one of her most recent posts, a time-honored point of caution.
An excerpt:
I have been taught since childhood about the importance of watching out for snakes. I learned how to identify the different species and the ones that were the most dangerous. I was told what to do if I saw a snake, or if I was bit by one. It comes with the territory being a child of Appalachia. One of the things that I have always remembered is – where there are blackberries, there are snakes.
I don’t know if it is the brambles that attracts them, or the plethora of little critters coming to eat berries. If I were a snake, I’d say it is a little of both.
Copperhead
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