Close-up balcony

This ground-floor balcony is on the corner of the lane up to our garden. This morning I caught it in the low sunlight.

There was a snake on the path to the garden, curled in the sun. It didn't move at the sound of footsteps - stamping as I was taught to do as a child in north Africa - and one of the other gardeners assured me that it was dead. It twitched slightly as I approached, though. Not poisonous... but I don't like snakes much.