Saturday, September 18, 2010

Two Insect-Eaters

For three weeks I've been trying to capture one of these stripey-leg spiders in a photo. Each August they show up -- seemingly sprung full-grown out of nowhere -- and start constructing webs. They are alert to danger and incredibly fast in retreat. Finally, this morning, I found a lazy one in a place on our patio accessible to me.

Ta-Da!


On my way into the house...who is this? It's a grey tree frog sitting on a bay laurel leaf. Do you suppose the X has significance?


Aren't life's myriad forms grand?

1 comment:

Jayhawk Fan said...

I remember when I was younger how you used to tell me that this was Spider Season! Boy howdy, were you right! Now I tell Cleo the SAME thing! Love, Love this toad. X marks the spot...