It was the long four-mile drive to Lucy Park my motorized means of motion took me on this final Tuesday of the 2026 version of October, for some pleasant nature communing and endorphin acquisition gained by exploring the Lucy Park Backwoods Jungle.
One would think Spring had sprung what with how Lucy Park has gone from being brown to green since last I visited. The recent rains have had a nice result.
The leaves on the trees have yet to get the memo telling them it is the time of year for them to drop their leaves.
I am always a bit apprehensive at the above location when I hike the Lucy Park Backwoods Jungle. This is the location, soon after my arrival in Wichita Falls, where I saw the biggest snake I have ever seen, in the wild.
It has been several years since I have seen a snake, nary a one since that bizarre bout a few winters ago where we went to below zero for several days. I do not think cold-blooded reptiles like getting that cold. Or can survive it.
I have seen a lot of snakes since I have been in Texas, including rattlesnakes, and not just the hundreds of rattlesnakes I saw at the Sweetwater Rattlesnake Roundup.
My scariest rattlesnake encounter happened on the Cedar Hills State Park mountain bike trail. Cedar Hills State Park is in the Dallas zone of Texas.
That Cedar Hills State Park rattlesnake encounter happened when I was in deep woods, suddenly hearing the unmistakable sound of a rattlesnake rattling it rattle.
And then I saw it, coiled up, a few feet off the trail, the rattle sticking up above the coiled rattlesnake. I think it was simply warning me and was not getting ready to strike. I increased my speed, nonetheless.
What was totally unsettling was soon after the in the woods rattlesnake encounter I entered a section which was sort of marshy with tall grass. Perfect snake habitat, or so it seemed to me. But, I saw nary a snake in that scary section.
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