Snakes In Rural Pennsylvania

SNAKES IN RURAL PENNSYLVANIA The snakes in his head were timber rattlers, easily agitated, disinclined to fight, their rattling a warning to all before slipping away silently from conflict or harm Unfortunately for the fortunate son his bride to be was a young copperhead, golden brown and beautiful on the dark forest floor among the stones and wet soil of a Blue Mountain summer, and unlike the rattler she was silent and aggressive, looking for a fight!