Spiderweb

This is the home of my creepy new friend.

Spiders are so neat. It amazes me just how precice some spiderwebs can be. Even with the little imperfections, it's impressive how every row of silk is placed almost the same distance apart, and all this is done in nature, without rulers or levels or calculators or AutoCAD, with the breeze blowing and a human family barbecuing just a couple feet away.

Nature is amazing.

The Itsy-Bitsy Spider

It wasn't as big as it looks. :) Still, big enough to have a certain cringe factor when trying to take a really close-up photo, especially when it jumped and I was looking at its huge image in the camera viewfinder.

Spiders don't freak me out, though. I am actually pretty fascinated by them. Snakes, on the other hand... yeah, those definitely make me scream like a little girl.