Wow, what a coincidence that you would see another one of the same kind so soon after you saw the injured one. He is beautiful and I think you got some great pictures of him. I love the pics of him climbing the tree! I would have loved to have seen him in person. MN doesn't have near the amount of snakes that MO did and I actually miss seeing them. The most beautiful I've seen down there was a speckled kingsnake, he was black with bright greenish yellow spots all over and a bright yellow/green belly. I actually saw one on two different occasions while out hiking.

There are a couple pics of them here, and these are from MO too.

http://ilherps.tripod.com/id127.html