St. Francis of the Spiders

Saint Francis shows his love for all living creatures.

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Sorry the blog has been so quiet of late. There have been spiders aplenty in this new garden of mine, fascinating spiders of many hues, but I have usually been in the middle of weeding or digging or planting or moving piled bricks (and disturbing spiders) and have not had my camera with me. SpiderWatch will resume... but I'm not sure when it will become regular again; there are many more garden projects yet to do, and the camera is ill-suited to mud, water, and rock.

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).

Halloween Spiders

Halloween: The one time of the year when spiders are properly appreciated. In case you can't tell, these spiders have *lights* on them. That twinkle. At night. The one spider glares at you!

Getting Ready for Halloween: Spiderweb

I thought this was suitable, what with everyone decorating for Halloween and all.

Pretty, too.