Celebrating Spider Appreciation Day!

Aka Halloween. There are more of these out this year than there have been in the past.

The great big red spider went up the garden wall...

It's waaatching you!

Awww look. It's taking time to smell the allysum.

Even I think this one might be going a little too far. Look at it: It entirely covers that umbrella. We're not quite into Shelob territory here, but we're certainly talking Mirkwood, at the least.

And this is what you'd be walking into, if you had these spiders around.

So maybe this isn't the best way to teach people arachnophilia. I still hope to get a picture of the big, cheerful orange-spider-in-a-wreath. My camera ran out of battery.

And I still like that red-eyed spider (in someone else's yard).