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Many years ago I was planting a vegetable garden in Oregon.
A really strange looking snake slithered out of the tall grass / weeds next to the garden space.
The thing was almost three feet long and very colorful with a really neat pattern on it’s skin. I have no idea what it was. -

Correction (I just looked it up) it was probably a king snake -

California represents home base for both the California King Snake
and the California Mountain King Snake. A small population of both species spill over into the Siskiyou Mountains of southern Oregon.

A very colorful thing it was. Looked like an aquatic coral snake in coloration -
but I doubt that it wandered inland 50 miles from the ocean.
Which is good - coral snakes are poisonous, but king snakes are mostly harmless.

The snake disappeared under the house (crawl space) and I never saw it again.