IMG_3289 Published March 13, 2016 at 1200 × 900 in Save our Tomales Bay – 42 East shore roadside trash update ©Richard James – coastodian.org That ramen cup below the orange cone was home to a sleeping garter snake I rudely awoke. My first snake sighting of 2016 and a very early start to spring. I declare it spring upon seeing my first snake in the wild.