Well, my most recent critter encounter that really popped into my life was over the weekend on a camping trip.  My husband and I were walking my grandpuppy along the road at a campgrounds when I saw what appeared to be a dried worm.  For some reason, I stopped lifted my foot to kick it out of the road and when my foot was right over it, I saw the head.  It was a copperhead snake poised to strike at me.  I called my husband who said no, it's too early for the snakes to be out yet.  i said...I am telling you it is a snake.  He picked up a stick and put it near it and the thing struck at it three times!  That was almost my foot!

I often dream of snakes and of being bitten by one, but didn't expect this close an encounter this early in the season.  I think our couple of warms days and the horrible flooding may have brought this one out of the ground.
I just had the feeling the fact I saw one so early and out in the middle of the road coíled up was a message to me of some sort....to "keep my eye on the path before me."