Brown Widow

Look at that--beautiful creamy back with brown speckles. Nice, innocent spider busy weaving her tangled web.

Then she rolls over.

Common sense tells me that I've been gardening out there barehanded and sometimes barefoot for years, and that it is highly unlikely that a bunch of brown widow spiders decided to show up in that evening just because they heard there would be cameras.

I'm still buying a pair of gardening gloves.