Brooklyn Ehrisman and her aunt Wendy Harms get a close view of a ball python held by University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior Shannon Bell at the first-ever “NaturePalooza Nebraska” Saturday at Morrill Hall in Lincoln. This python is one of Rebecca Houser's shown at the event. “(Ten years ago) I found a bullsnake, and my grandma let me keep it as a pet,” said Houser, an applied ecology graduate student at UNL. “I've been hooked since.”