I finally got close enough to take a picture of our backyard snake - and he is fairly good-sized now! He lives somewhere in our side-bushes. I thought it was a racer snake but now, looking at this, you will notice the red splashes on the bottom part of his body. I'm thinking this might be an indigo since our backyard backs up to a lake. What do you think?

Sorry for the blurry image but the snake was moving and I only had my cellphone camera!