rattlesnake love

i visited Steve and Sherry this past weekend in Camp Verde. nobody wants to see more pictures of me and Sherry standing on rocks, so i am including this amazing shot of 2 rattlesnakes mating that Sherry gave me. they wind around each other and dance before going off to do the nasty. some biologists (I'm sorry, I don't know who) captured this photo at Tuzigoot National Monument, which I previously remembered only because of the huge copper mine-tailings wasteland surrounding it. we went to Montezuma Well which is a neat little natural well filled by a mineralized, warm spring. quite a nice little spot on a late spring morning. to complete our weekend, we ate too much italian food and watched way too many (i'm not telling just how many) episodes of Lost (season 1).